Korn to Corn
Inscription
Corn has it roots in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Land Run of 1892. Native Americans had earlier been able to choose their sites. Soon after a Mennonite Missionary at Shelly Took note of unclaimed land and invited German-Russian Mennonites of South Central Kansas to homestead in this area. Thirteen arrived and selected land along. Coffee Creek, Two miles west of present Corn. By fall of 1893, forty families had settled. More families came in 1894-1895. They brought the Turkey Red Wheat which would bring Oklahoma into the Wheat Belt of America. Present day Corn's Post Office opened at this site April 4, 1903 in the G,B, Flaming Store west of the Washita Mennonite Brethren Church. Eugen Forbes had earlier (1896) petitioned form Korn's Post Office north of this present site.
Founding Dates
Korn's Mennonite Brethren Church 1893
Bergthal Mennonite Church 1894
Korn Bible Academy,
One of Oklahoma's oldest Parchial
Schools opened 1903
Korn's name anglicized to Corn 1918
Washita County Enterprise
Published in Corn since. 1920
the First Corn High School
Senior Class graduated 1933
Calvory Baptist Church 1949
Corn Incorporated Aug. 18, 1954
Descendants of Corn's Pioneers
Have funded this memorial
Oklahoma Historical Society 232-1998
Location
Sources
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