Adair, OK

Adair sits ten miles north of Pryor on U.S. 69 in Mayes County, a Green Country town that grew beside the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. Established in 1883 and incorporated in 1897, it was named for Cherokee brothers William Penn Adair and Dr. Walter Thompson Adair. The railroad brought a depot, stores, a grain elevator, cotton gin, banks, and stockyards, while an artesian well supplied residents and livestock. Adair's early life was built around movement, trade, and Cherokee community history.

The first Cherokee school in Adair opened in the 1880s, and the town's school system remains one of its most important institutions. Today local roads, schools, small businesses, churches, and nearby farm country connect the town to Pryor and the wider northeastern Oklahoma region. The old railroad center has changed, but the town still carries the scale of a place designed to serve surrounding rural households. Adair's character comes from those layers: Cherokee names, railroad commerce, school traditions, and the green landscape north of Pryor.