Eagletown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States.

[3] Located on Mountain Fork River, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from the Oklahoma-Arkansas border, it was the first permanent Choctaw settlement in the Indian Territory, who called it o̱ssi tamaha ("Eagle").

When the first Choctaws arrived in 1832, they found fields that had been cleared for farming and cabins that had housed the previous inhabitants.

By July 1832, Williams established a station he called Bethabara on the west bank of the Mountain Fork River.

Byington spent 31 years here, and was noted for translating both religious and secular materials into a written Choctaw language that he created.

Byington also supervised the adjacent Iyanubbi Female Seminary, a boarding school for Choctaw girls that operated from 1844 until 1861.

[5] Jefferson Gardner, a Choctaw trader, opened a general store in 1874 on the east bank of the river.

Gardner became principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, but lost his fortune shortly after his term ended in 1896.