Volume 12 , Issue 2

History of Avard, OK

On the Avard Folk Festival you can find some more history of the little town of Avard in Woods County, in Northwest Oklahoma. Such as:

The town was originally one mile south of the present location. Where Avard is presently at today, the property for Avard was purchased from Mr. Frank Todd. The Town was named after Mr. Todd's mother. Avard grew from the efforts of A.F. Wolf, from Fayetteville, AR., who anticipated th extension of the Frisco Railroad westward in 1904 from Enid, OK.

Avard is located 7 miles south and 6 miles west of Alva, Oklahoma. Avard was the end of the Frisco Railroad and then it continued on the mail line of the Santa Fe (now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, BNSF), within these two junctions, Avard, OK. is now established. The town boomed and exceeded a population of 350, which was large for early day towns in Western Oklahoma.
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