Historical Marker Program

Durant

Bryan County
Location: on US-69 on north side of Durant
Topics: American Indians; Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Government; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

The town of Durant was named for Dixon Durant, member of a prominent Choctaw-French family in the Choctaw Nation. The first Durant post office was established on February 20, 1879. Durant was home to one of the state's greatest leaders, Robert Lee Williams, a member of the constitutional convention, chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, governor of Oklahoma, a federal district judge, and judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.