Friendship was once called Alfalfa and was the site of the Alfalfa Post Office from 1903 to 1905. Clabber Flat School, which began one mile west and one-half mile north of here in 1899, became the first Friendship School and took its new name from the Friendship Baptist Church. After the church was located here in 1908, the town also became known as Friendship. At its peak, Friendship had more than a dozen businesses, but they gradually closed as the rural population declined after World War II. In 1875 the last free bands of Comanches and Kiowas were confined to reservations at Fort Sill, allowing regular cattle drives over the Western Cattle Trail until about 1888. By the time the drives ended, millions of Longhorns had passed through what is now Friendship on their way to Dodge City. This area was part of Greer County, Texas, until 1896, when the Supreme Court ruled that it belonged to Oklahoma Territory. After the area was opened for homesteading in 1897, settlers poured in seeking free land and a new life.