Cushing High School was started in Indian Territory (1906)
A little history lesson on Cushing..... Cushing was in the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation opened to homesteaders on September 21, 1891. Entering the Sac and Fox lands on the opening date on September 22, 1891, William R. Little, born in Illinois, located a homestead of 160 acres on the present site of Cushing, built a home. The $400 house, consisted of a room 14 by 28 feet and a kitchen 14 by 16 feet. Little described his homestead, in Indian Territory, as rolling prairie. Under the provisions of the Act of May 2, 1890, by which Oklahoma Territory was established. Little filed an application with the Guthrie Land Office, to commute to cash 80 acres of his land as a town site. Little paid $694.80 for 69.48 acres, allowing 10.33 for parks, schools and other public purposes as specified on the plat. He was then in position to begin the sale of the lots on this tract which was the original town site of Cushing. Cushing was named for Marshall Cushing, a private secretary to John Wanamaker, Postmaster General in Harrison's Cabinet.

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