Boynton, Oklahoma - Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma, Including the Counties of Muskogee

Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma, Including the Counties of Muskogee

The Town of Boynton, now a thriving little city of 1400 inhabitants, is located in the western part of Muskogee County on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, half way between Muskogee and Okmulgee. Twenty years ago it was but a part of a broad prairie pasture, but as soon as the proposed railroad was surveyed, in 1902, the townsite promoters quickly selected its site as a suitable location for a promising town. Actual building began in the spring of 1903. Messrs. H. L. Wineland, W. S. Whaley, Junia Williams, W. E. Claire and Dr. J. A. Settle, being among the first settlers. Mr. Wineland taught the first school, Mr. Williams established the first drug store and Mr. Whaley was the first postmaster. Two years later Mr. Wineland assisted in organizing the first bank, called The Bank of Boynton and became its president. Some Muskogee bankers were quick to see that Boynton would soon become a good trading center, and in 1903 Messrs. A. W. Patterson and A. C. Trumbo went out and organized the First National Bank of Boynton. Both of these banks have flourished and have been important factors in building up the town and in developing the surrounding farming interests. One of Boynton 's most important industries is the Francis Vitrified Brick Co. This company has succeeded in manufacturing hard brick of an excellent quality and they have found a ready market for all of their product. Several years ago, oil was discovered in the vicinity of Boynton, numerous productive wells have been drilled and an oil refinery was built, having a capacity of 10,000 barrels per day.

Several years ago a union graded school district was formed, including several square miles of the adjacent farm lands, a good high school was established and twenty-four teachers are now regularly employed in the public schools of the city.

In addition to its two banks, oil refinery, hard brick factory and its good schools, Boynton now has a good water system, an abundant supply of natural gas, a grain mill and elevator, two cotton gins, about a dozen stores and five churches. It is also surrounded by a good prairie farming country, not yet fully developed, but which is well adapted to the production of all ordinary farm products, including livestock.