Long before the white made his appearance in what is now Garvin County, the Indians living an traveling the area crossed the Washita River at a natural ford about three and one half miles north of Wynnewood. They crossed there because the river bed at that particular place was, and still is, one solid rock. This was the town called Cherokee Town. During times of low water the solid rock bed of the crossing is exposed to the eye. Today traces of the wagon road at the crossing remain.

After the Cherokee Indians were settled in this area, a trading post was established on the banks of a creek called Cherokee Sandy. The post office named Cherokee Town was located in what is now the northwest quarter of section twenty five, township three north, range on east.

A map made in 1871 shows the Washita River, Cherokee Sandy, and Cherokee Town, and shows roads leading to and from Cherokee Town to points southeast towards Boggy Depot southwest of Fort Arbuckle and west to other forts.

All roads roing southwest and west across the Washita crossed the river at Cherokee Crossing. Most of the traffic that came from the southeast going on up to the northwest around Fort Reno all came through this country around Cherokee Town and across Cherokee Crossing and on further northeast.

Cherokee Town originally had about one hundred people living there. It had a general store, cotton gin, and a doctor.

Cherokee Town died out about 1906 after the railroad came through.