Eagletown, Oklahoma

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Eagletown is a small community in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. The post office was established in 1834 and it was the first permanent Choctaw settlement in the West. At the Stockbridge Mission located here, Reverend Cyrus Byington produced the Dictionary of the Choctaw Language. It is considered one of the greatest works in American ethnology.

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