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New Cordell, Oklahoma
New Cordell is a city in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. The town lies along U.S. Route 183. The population was 2,915 at the 2010 census. Cordell was previously located a few miles from the current spot, but was moved c. 1900, thus the name New Cordell. It was named for a U.S. Postal Service employee in Washington D. C., Wayne W. Cordell. The town is now commonly called Cordell.〔Boothe, Wayne. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Cordell." Accessed August 29, 2012.()〕
==History==
Cordell began when H. D. Young opened a general store about 1.5 miles east of the present town, shortly after the 1892 Cheyenne and Arapaho lands were opened for non-Indian settlement in 1892. A post office named Cordell was established in the same year in Young's store. In 1897, A. J. Cordell and J. C. Harrell convinced Young to move his store to the present site, where water was more plentiful and of better quality than in Old Cordell. The new location became known as New Cordell. In 1900, Washita County residents voted to move the county seat from the town of Cloud Chief to New Cordell. The move was challenged in the court as illegal, because only the territorial legislature could authorize such an action. In 1904, the Oklahoma Territorial Supreme Court ruled that the county seat must return to Cloud Chief. A Cordell attorney, Sam Massengale, traveled to Washington, where he lobbied for a bill to make Cordell the official county seat. The bill passed the U. S. Congress in 1906.〔
The county courthouse was destroyed by a fire in 1909. It was rebuilt by 1911 by the same architect who designed the Oklahoma State Capitol. Governor George Nigh called it, "...godfather of all courthouses in the state of Oklahoma." The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔
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