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Sayre is a city in and the county seat of Beckham County, in western Oklahoma, United States. [4] It is halfway between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, Texas on Interstate 40 and the former U.S. Route 66 .
It only coincided with the earlier route through Texola and through Sayre; the rest was entirely separate. Except in Sayre, where the city had paved the road with Portland cement (PC) in 1926, the state began paving the road in 1928 and 1929 with asphalt over a concrete base from Elk City to several miles east of Hext. It switched to PC in 1929 ...
The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce and oldest chamber of commerce in North America is the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1750. [7] [8] The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1783. [9]
City of Sayre, Oklahoma, Launches Online Payment Center Online bill pay system brings convenience and efficiencies to citizens and businesses SAYRE, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Conducting business ...
The courthouse sits on a 1 acre (4,000 m 2) parcel of land in downtown Sayre, at the intersection of Third and Walnut Streets. It is a three-story building measuring 66 feet (20 m) in the east-west direction and 99 feet (30 m) in the north-south direction.
Sayre's Classical Revival post office, a contributing property, was constructed in 1938; the post office includes a Works Progress Administration mural painted in 1940. The downtown remained prosperous until the 1950s, when population decline and the bypassing of Route 66 led to a decrease in commercial activity. [2]
Beckham County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,410. [1] Its county seat is Sayre. [2] Founded upon statehood in 1907, Beckham County was named for J. C. W. Beckham, who was Governor of Kentucky [3] and the first popularly elected member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.
The Sayre Champlin Service Station is a historic service station located on old U.S. Route 66 in Sayre, Oklahoma. The station, an affiliate of the Champlin Refining Company , was built in 1934; it replaced an older station which predated Route 66.