Luther, Oklahoma

Luther started as a railroad bet. In early eighteen ninety-eight, Charles G. Jones, nicknamed Gristmill, a prominent Oklahoma City promoter, platted land in northeastern Oklahoma County where the St.

Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad was expected to run. He named the new town for his young son Luther. By statehood, Luther had the full complement of small-town commerce: a flour mill, a cotton gin, a bank, a lumberyard, a hotel, and a blacksmith.

When Route Sixty-Six was designated in nineteen twenty-six, the Mother Road passed through the north edge of town, giving Luther a second chapter as a traveler's stop on the long run between Chicago and Los Angeles.