Beland, Oklahoma
Ghost town in Oklahoma, United States
35°41′30.37″N 95°32′8.92″W / 35.6917694°N 95.5358111°W / 35.6917694; -95.5358111Beland is a ghost town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. Not much remains there, besides a few buildings.
History
In 1903, Beland (formerly Chase) was founded 8 miles southwest of Muskogee, Oklahoma as a black settlement.[1] In 1906, a wealthy African-American attorney and business man by the name of Cornelius Jones bought the entirety of Chase for $4,000 (now worth about $135,000 in today's money). Jones sponsored selling town lots in black-owned newspapers in the south. The town's name was changed to Beland in 1908, and was successful for a bit. Beland lost its post office in 1926.[2]
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