1907 Bryan County Courthouse Former Federal
Courthouse
COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1907
from Recording District No. 25, Indian Territory. COUNTY NAMED FOR:
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) who served in
Congress briefly as a Representative from Nebraska and was
the 41st United States Secretary of State under President
Woodrow Wilson (1913–1915).
COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR:A well-know Choctaw family of which Dickson Durant was the prominent member.
COURTHOUSES: Two - The first courthouse was
rented from the owner of a former U.S. Courthouse.
County offices remained in that building until they were
able to move into the 1917 structure made of concrete and
stone.