The town's public school began in 1905 and absorbed a Caddo County district in 1917. Īgriculture has been the main economic activity in Verden since its founding, and the railroad made Verden an important shipping point for products of the farms and ranches. In 1907, Verden became a town incorporated in Oklahoma Territory by the commissioners of Caddo County, and had a population of 312. Hiatt sold the lots for the CRI&P townsite division. Another post office was established in 1902, which was named 'Verden', because there was another Cottonwood Grove post office elsewhere in the Oklahoma Territory.

A post office was established at Cottonwood Grove, in 1899, but was discontinued in 1900. Jones and his family claimed the land around Cottonwood Grove when the tribes living near the Kiowa Agency were allowed to claim their land allotments. CRI&P or Rock Island Railroad) built tracks through this area, between Chickasha and Mangum in 1900. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (a.k.a. Johnson bought the Half Moon around 1900. His son-in-law, Charles Campbell, owner of the 7BC Ranch, and E. The land around the community, outside the reservation, belonged to the Half Moon Ranch, owned by W. A stage stop was established at Cottonwood Grove for travelers en route from Boggy Depot to the Kiowa Agency, Fort Sill, and Fort Cobb. It was on the eastern edge of the Kiowa and Comanche reservation that was established by the Medicine Lodge Treaty, that was made with the U.S. History Ī rural community called 'Cottonwood Grove' began to emerge near the present site of Verden before the Civil War.

The population was 580 at the 2020 census, a decline from 530 in 2010. It abuts the Caddo County line, and is probably best known as the site of the 1865 Camp Napoleon Council. Verden is a town in western Grady County, Oklahoma, United States.

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