Bryan Co., OK; Town of Blue - History 

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Submitted by the Bryan County Heritage Library 
Located in Calera, OK
Written by Mrs. Nadine Teel		 
Typed for the archives by Trudy Marlow 
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               BLUE HISTORY

	Blue, a little town of almost 150 population got its name 
from Blue River which is about 1-1/2 miles west of blue, back in 
Indian Territory.

	Originally, Blue was called "Old Blue" which was about 2 
miles south of this present location at a land mark called "Iron 
Stob", then later it was moved to its present location.

	We've always had two churches here.  The Baptist, Church of 
Christ, the Church of Christ built a new church and the old one was 
later run by Holliness.

	We also had a Barber shop here with Wallace McCollum, being 
the barber.

	In the late 1920 or 1921 Blue had a "Big Oil Boom" on and 
people were here from far and near.  The company was called Blue Ox 
Oil Co.  Gene Dicus's brother Will Dicus was president of it.

	In the 1920 & 1921 Blue had a real nice depot and telegraph, 
office and at that time Uyless Mitchell, now deceased was the 
ticket agen ant Joe Turner (deceased) was depot agent and carried 
the mail from the post office to the depot.  There were four 
passenger trains a day which carried the mail.  Two went east and 2 
went west.  

	During the 1910 and 1919, E.S. Wards General Store was on the 
west side of Main Street.  Will Dicus had a drug store and sod a 
fountain also ice cream tables and chairs where people went to eat 
ice cream and drink soft drinks.

	W.O.W. (Woodman of the World) had a large hall over a store 
owned by Mr. Dills and met there two or three times a week.

	There was a black smith shop owned by Sam Platt.  Blue also 
had a good school here during that time.

	There was a little jail here at the back of the store 
buildings, also a lumber yard close to the jail owned by Mr. 
Williams.

	We had four good doctors here during that time.  Dr. Ward, 
Dr. Gossett, Dr. Fustan, Dr. Allder.

	We had a saw mill here owned and operated by a Mr. Houchin.  
We also had a large cotton gin here operated by Cox and Sims.  We 
had a large hotel.

	R. L. (Bob) Williams the 3rd governor of Oklahoma from 1915-
1919, owned 300 acres here.  There was a large two story house on 
this ranch in which the W.A. Brown family lived and several rent 
houses on the ranch, Mr. Brown was operator of the Williams Ranch 
during this time.

	Blue was considered as being the county seat of Bryan County, 
at one time, but Durant got it for being near the center of the 
county.

	Joe Furlong owned and operated a casket and furniture store 
two blocks east of Main Street.

	Due to the fire in the later part of the 1920 most of all of 
Blue was burned only one building remained, which is the old post 
office building.

	During the oil boom, Will Dicus, was president and his son 
Frank Dicus, now resides on five acres at his property in Blue, 
Oklahoma.

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Written by Mrs. Nadine Teel