The City of Bluffton is nicknamed the "Parlor City" for its history of having some of the first clean paved streets in the area during the time of the Trenton Oil boom. Most streets at the time were dirt at the time. The nickname came from the fact that the parlor in someone's home at the time would be the cleanest room in the house because that is the first space that your guests see when they come into your home. Today the brand new Parlor City Plaza acts as the first thing you see along with our historic courthouse as you come into our downtown keeping to our tradition of the "Parlor City" nickname.