The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Adair is named after two Cherokee brothers, William Penn Adair, a politician and jurist, and Dr. Walter Thompson Adair. It was established on March 15, 1883, and incorporated in 1897. William Penn Adair lived in the area off and on for 17 years beginning in the late 1860s.
In the 1880s, a Cherokee school was started here. In 1907, shortly before statehood, the school began to admit white students.
In the most daring deed of the Dalton Gang up to that date, eight members held up the Missouri-Kansas-Texas train at Adair on July 14, 1892.
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Start Adair’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adair’s history is told.
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Nothing in Adair is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Adair has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cabin Creek Battlefield in Pensacola, 9.1 miles away.
Adair and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.