Red Bluff Community Church and School

Washita County was opened to non-Indian settlement in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Opening of April 19, 1892, when most of it was laid out as County H. Red Bluff's church began in 1900, the year the Baptist bodies within each of Oklahoma's two territories united, and in 1906 delegates of both territorial conventions met at Shawnee to organize the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. The farm country around the crossroads changed shape over the next decades: the county had 4,506 farms averaging about 135 acres in 1934, and 2,046 averaging 312 acres in 1961.

What the plaque says

Red Bluff Community Church and School Red Bluff Church and School first opened in 1900. The church was the first missionary Baptist in Washita County; functioning until 1946. The Red Bluff School also served the community until that time; acting as a social center. The church building was erected in 1917 on the farm of the W. B. Druce family. Oklahoma Historical Society 1981

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oklahoma Route 66 Museum — 16 mi
  The Oklahoma Historical Society's museum of the road in Clinton, decade by decade from the 1926 designation through the Dust Bowl and the war to the 1950s diner.
• Elk City Museum Complex — 22 mi
  Elk City's museums on old 66: the National Route 66 and Transportation Museum's drive through all eight states, a pioneer Old Town, a farm and ranch hall and a blacksmith shop.
• Stafford Air & Space Museum — 29 mi
  Weatherford's museum for its astronaut son, Thomas P. Stafford, grown from an airport display case into 75,000 square feet of flight beside I-40 and old Route 66.

More markers nearby

• Cordell Academy — 5.4 mi
• Tacola/Cloud Chief School — 14 mi
• Site of First Washita County Court House — 14 mi
• Canute — 14 mi