Volume 11 , Issue 28

Fort Canton (Cantonment)

Canton, Oklahoma was the site of former Cantonment military base established in 1878 by Col. Richard I. Dodge. There was a Mennonite Indian Mission once situated there. The site also features the Canton Area Museum and Canton Lake.

The Canton lake is located in western Oklahoma, in Blaine county. Three miles northwest of Canton was the Cantonment. The Cantonment had a post office from July 17, 1879, to September 15, 1917. Intended as a supply cantonment, the post was established in 1879, but fell into disuse within a decade.

The Canton post office was established May 19, 1905 and Canton took its name from the nearby Cantonment military post.

The Indian Mission School building has been reconstructed, but nothing of the old Cantonment remains, because it was dismantled in 1882. The Canton area museum is located one block west of SH-51 and SH-58 Junction.
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