Bennington, Oklahoma

Bennington is an incorporated town[5] in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.

In 1853, a Presbyterian minister named A. G. Lansing established Mount Pleasant Mission Station near present-day Matoy in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.

Charles C. Copeland, who moved the mission a few miles farther south because the original site was in a boggy and remote location that was unhealthy.

Some of the buildings were dragged down to the railroad line, where a new town was established in 1903 and grew quickly to 250 people in that year.

[6] Bennington is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Durant on County Road E2075.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.

Bryan County map