Tag: Lone Grove
Lone Grove is a city in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,631 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Micropolitan Statistical Area of Ardmore.
The city, located seven miles west of Ardmore on U.S. Route 70, is effectively a bedroom community of Ardmore, with many residents employed in Ardmore.
A former village located in the Chickasaw Nation of the Indian Territory near a stand of cedar trees. The town was founded and a post office was established in Lone Grove on February 4, 1885. Prior to that the community was named “Price’s Store”, after local general mercantile owner T. C. “Tom Cat” Price.
During the early 1900s local businesses included three grocery stores, a barbershop, a drugstore, a movie theater, a blacksmith shop, and three doctors. Numerous oil pools, including the Healdton and Hewitt fields, were discovered nearby during the 1910s and 1920s, and the Oklahoma, New Mexico and Pacific Railway reached town in 1913. (Popularly called the Ringling…
