Historical Markers in Durant, Oklahoma

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Historical Markers in Durant, Oklahoma

1 ► Oklahoma, Bryan County, Durant — Ahihla — Dance Circle —

Our ancestors enjoyed a rich spiritual and ceremonial life. The dance ground, located at a town's center, was the venue where Choctaw religious and social life converged. The stealing partners dance, drink water dance, friendship dance, war . . . — — Map (db m242790) HM

2 ► Oklahoma, Bryan County, Durant — Chickasaw Trail of Tears —

During the late 1830s and early 1840s, Chickasaw Indians removed by the United States Government from Alabama and Mississippi passed near here on their way to a new home in present-day south-central Oklahoma. In 1837 alone, an estimated 6,000 . . . — — Map (db m77936) HM

3 ► Oklahoma, Bryan County, Durant — 183 — Fort Washita —

Site selected and named 1842, by Gen. Zachary Taylor, later Pres. of U.S. Fort established 1842 by 2nd Dragoons, occupied by several rifle, infantry, cavalry, and artillery companies. Built to protect the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians from the . . . — — Map (db m81743) HM

4 ► Oklahoma, Bryan County, Durant — General Douglas Hancock Cooper —

"Kind and sympathetic by nature, generous to a fault, he was an honest man of noble impulses, and born and bred a gentleman." These were the words of a contemporary of General Douglas Hancock Cooper, C.S.A. Cooper was appointed U.S. Agent to . . . — — Map (db m77935) HM

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