Kellyville, Oklahoma
Near Tulsa, Oklahoma
Kellyville takes its name from James E. Kelly, who leased land from the Indian Agency in Muskogee in eighteen ninety-two and opened a trading post in what was then the Creek Nation, Indian Territory. Kelly became the community's first postmaster when the post office opened in November of eighteen ninety-three.
Five years later, the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad built its line between Sapulpa and Oklahoma City through the area, and the Frisco station was named after the first settler in the territory. By nineteen oh nine Kellyville had a bank, a cotton gin, a feed mill, and a livery.
Route Sixty-Six arrived in nineteen twenty-six, threading through this stretch of east-central Creek County and giving the town its best-known identity: a small dot on the Mother Road, eight miles southwest of Sapulpa, on land that was Muscogee Nation territory and remains so today under the McGirt ruling.
