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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Main Street in Durant. Durant (/ d uː r æ n t /) is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.The population was 18,589 in the 2020 census.It serves as the capital of the Choctaw Nation, and is the largest settlement on the reservation, ranking ahead of McAlester and Poteau.
From March 23, 1869, to February 6, 1871, the Carriage Point post office existed at the site and it is generally referred to by that name in the area. The station was run by Fisher Durant, a well known Choctaw family who founded nearby Durant. Fisher's Station (Carriage Point) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#72001058) in ...
Bryan County is in southeastern Oklahoma, in a 10-county area designated as Choctaw Country for tourism purposes by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation. [6] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 944 square miles (2,440 km 2 ), of which 904 square miles (2,340 km 2 ) is land and 39 square miles (100 ...
Choctaw Casinos & Resorts is a chain of seven Native American casinos and hotels located in Oklahoma, owned and operated by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.. The original location in Durant has 218,844 sq ft (20,331.3 m 2) of gaming floor, over 7,600 slot machines, and 1,616 hotel rooms.
The Bryan County Courthouse in Durant, Oklahoma, located at 4th Avenue and Evergreen Street, was built in 1917. It was designed by architect Jewell Hicks. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It is a three-story courthouse. It was deemed "significant because of its importance to the county's residents as a ...
The Durant Downtown Historic District (DDHD) in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma is a 28 acres (11 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is roughly bounded by 4th Ave., Lost St., Evergreen St. and 1st Ave. [ 2 ]
In the spring of 1909, two young men came to Durant to enter the newspaper business: R. F. (Bob) Story of Mineral Wells, Texas, and Walter Archibald, of Marietta, Oklahoma. The following year they purchased the Durant Daily News and changed the name to the Durant Daily Democrat. The first issue under the new - and present - name was dated June ...