Historical Marker

Friendship School

East of Altus, Ok, Highway 62 turn north at mile marker 45, go to the town of Friendship, from the Friendship/Western Cattle Trail Marker continue on North 1 mile, 1/2 mile West, monument on the south side of road. ยท Jackson

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Friendship School

Dedicated in memory of parents, teachers and friends who thought us the true meaning of friendship, scholarship, sportsmanship, leadership and honor.

For more than sixty years Friendship schools

meet the education needs and were the

heart of the Friendship community.

In 1899, soon after old Greer County was

declared to be a part of Oklahoma Territory

and opened for homesteading. Clabber Flat

school and after was called Friendship by some of

those the school was the original home of

the Friendship Baptist Church.

Clabber Flat (Friendship School District)

consolidated with Navajoe and part of Lone Oak

and Riverside school districts. A new school

was built to serve the new consolidated district

it was called Friendship.

In 1935 Pleasant Point consolidated with

Friendship, while a new school was being built

some students attended classes at the

Methodist and Baptist Churches.

In 1937 the last Friendship school was built as

a WPA project. In 1947 a part of the Ozark

District and later in 1958, the Headrick

District joined the Frienship school District.

On Novemeber 1, 1962, the Friendship School

burned and the school year was completed

in the abandoned Humphreys School building.

In August 1963, Friendship consolidated with

Warren School District and formed the school

now known as Navajoe School.

Location

AddressEast of Altus, Ok, Highway 62 turn north at mile marker 45, go to the town of Friendship, from the Friendship/Western Cattle Trail Marker continue on North 1 mile, 1/2 mile West, monument on the south side of road.
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