Jackson Conoco Service Station

What is Jackson Conoco Service Station?

The station is a simple single-story brick building. Conoco put up many stations like it in the 1930s, and they were built to one standard plan; the only real difference from one to the next was where the service bay sat.

That makes this station a good example of how oil companies branded the highway, giving drivers a building they would recognize in town after town. Only one other station of the same design is on Oklahoma's National Register list: the Spraker Service Station, which stands in Vinita, farther east on Route 66.

History of Jackson Conoco Service Station

Continental Oil built the station in 1934. Three decades later, in 1964, A. M. Cavin bought the property with his wife. They rented it back to Conoco and kept selling gas there themselves, and they borrowed from Conoco to add service bays along the building's south side.

By 1969 locals knew it as Paul's Conoco. Ownership changed several more times, and the pumps finally went quiet in 1990. The station was added to the National Register in 2004.

Visiting Jackson Conoco Service Station: tips

The station sits right on the old road, so this is a quick photo stop of 10 to 15 minutes. Park once and walk: Avant's Cities Service Station and the El Reno Hotel are right beside it, and the William I. and Magdalen M. Goff House is about 0.2 miles away. Travelers following the road east can look for the Spraker station in Vinita to see the twin design.