Wynnewood (/ˈwɪniwʊd/ WIH-nee-wood) is a city in Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States.

[4][5] Located in what was then the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory, it began as a village called "Walner" in 1886, on the proposed route of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.

In 1887, Presbyterian missionary Mary Semple Hotchkins moved her school for Chickasaw children from Cherokee Town[a] to Wynnewood.

[b] A promotional brochure published in 1907 called Wynnewood "the Queen City of the Famous Washita Valley."

It could soon boast of having an opera house, electric lights, telephones, and the thirty-room Eskridge Hotel.

In 1973, the Wynnewood Historical Society bought the three-story structure and converted it into a museum of local history.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km2), all land.

Principal crops in the early 20th century included pecans, peaches, corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa, cotton and clover.

[6] In 2012, noted investor Carl Icahn announced that he had bought a controlling interest in CVR industries, which owned the 70,000 barrel per day refinery (BPD) at Wynnewood and a 115,000 BPD refinery at Coffeyville, Kansas.

[6] The Gazette in 1979 reported a story in nearby Elmore City about whether to allow high school students there to dance at a graduation celebration in the face of a town ordinance prohibiting public dancing; this controversy was picked up by national papers and became the core idea behind the 1984 film Footloose.