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In organizing my own genealogy files I started county folders to place information that I found and decided to place the information in a place to share with others.

—Business Information—
Addresses & Phone numbers that might help you in your research
—Bryan County Links—
This is information about Bryan Co. and it's people
—Outside Links—
These are links to other useful
Genealogy Sites & Information
Bryan County Heritage Assoc.
P. O. Box 153
Calera, OK 74730-0153
Order books Here
Cemeteries AGHP Oklahoma County Links
Bryan County Heritage Society
618 N. 19th St
Durant, OK 74701
Newspaper - Obit Notices - OKC Paper AGHP - Bryan County
  Queries American History and Genealogy Project
  About Bryan County Towns American Local History Network
    Ancestry
    Birth /Death Certificate Form
    Cyndi's List
    DAR
    Heritage Bookstore 
     NARA
    Oklahoma Cemeteries
    Oklahoma Family Group Sheets
    Oklahoma Lawmen & Outlaws
    Oklahoma USGenNet
    Reunions - In & Out of State
    RootsRemembered
    USGenNet
    USGenWeb
    USGenWeb Bryan County
    USGenWeb Bryan County Archives
    USGenWeb Oklahoma Archives
    Yearbook Index - Several States & Counties

The Bryan County Heritage Library is open 5 days a week from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M.
Monday through Friday. It is also open the same hours on the first and third
Saturday of every month.

Below are names of towns past and present
As time permits I will try to get more information on about them.

Academy
Achille
Adams
Albany
Alleppo
Allison
Armstrong
Banty
Barwick
Bennington
Blue
Bokchito
Brown
Burse
Caddo
Cade
Cale
Calera
Carriage Point
Cartwright
Colbert
Colbert's Station
Durant
Finch
Fisher's Station
Fort McCulloch
Fort Washita
Hendrix
Jackson
Karma
Keirsey
Kemp
Kenefic
Matoy
Mead
Mead Junction
Nail
Nail's Station
Oberlin
Paucaunla
Pirtle
Platter
Redlake
Robbersroost
Roberta
Romia
Silo
Sterrett
Tuklo
Utica
Wade
Yarnaby
Yuba
     

Bryan County

A county in southeastern Oklahoma, created at statehood from an
area approximating Recording District No. 25, Indian Territory.
Named for William Jennings Bryan

 

Academy

In Bryan County, 2 miles northeast of Bokchito.
The post office for for Armstrong Academy,
it was in operation from April 22, 1898, to March 15, 1920.

Achille

Located 12 miles south of Durant in Bryan County.
The post office was established June 30, 1910.
The post office was first named Achilla,
which was changed to the present designation on August 5, 1910.
The name is a corruption of the Cherokee word atsila, meaning "fire," and arose from a circumstance that a group of Cherokees settled in the locality as refugees during the Civil War.

Bloomfield Girls Seminary, established in 1853 by the Chickasaw Nation and operated by the Methodist Board of Missions. The first site was in southern Bryan County near Achille. It moved in 1917 to Ardmore, OK (Carter Co) and reopened at that time as Carter Seminary. The name was suggested by the beauty of the prairie flowers blooming nearby.

Adams

Located in western Bryan County, 8 miles northwest of Colbert.
A post office from August 2, 1901 to August 10, 1910.
The site is now inundated by Lake Texhoma.
Named for Nelson F. Adams, an early resident.

Albany

Located in southern Bryan County, 11 miles south of Bokchito.
The post office was established July 10, 1894.
Its name comes from Albany, New York.

Alleppo

Located 6 miles north of Durant in Bryan County.
A post office from February 6, 1902 to September 30, 1903.
No longer in existence.
It took its name from the city in northwest Syria.

Allison

Located 7 miles south of Durant in Bryan County.
A post office from March 6, 1901 to December 15, 1921.
Its name comes from a nearby rural school known as Mount Allison.

Armstrong

 

Durant

Durant is the County Seat of Bryan County.
Record Town for Recording District No. 25, Indian Territory.
The post office was estiblished March 8, 1882.
From February 20, 1879, to July 11, 1881, an earlier post office,
known as Durant Station, had been in operation at this site.
Named for the well known Choctaw family of which Dickson Durant was the prominent member.

Silo

Located in western Bryan County, 8 miles northwest of Durant.
A post office from November 4, 1893, to January 31, 1946.
Named for Albert B. "Silo" Gates, an early day resident.

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