SPANISHBURG — On Christmas Day 1941, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph ran an article about a local father receiving the sad news that one of his sons, a sailor in the
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The Threatt family is trying to restore their Route 66 filling station in Luther and turn it into an interpretive center. The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed it as one of its 11 most endangered historic sites and included it among 40 Black historical sites receiving a total of $3 million in grants.
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This summer has brought help to a family trying to restore their Luther, Oklahoma, gas station that was likely the first and only Black-owned and -operated one on Route 66.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently included Threatt Filling Station in a $3 million total grant award to preserve 40 Black historic sites in the U.S. That came after the trust named it one of its 11 most endangered historic places in the country. According to the trust, less than 5% of sites they designate “most endangered” have been lost.