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Dumas, AR - History
We would like to provide the residents of Dumas a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Dumas Home page. The Dumas Home page provides as much information as possible on Dumas. Knowing Dumas’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Dumas’s Home page, you will also find Dumas’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Dumas has a population of 3850. 40.1% of Dumas’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.9 are female. 45.4% of Dumas is married and 60% own their own home. The Average Home price is $75,037, and the average rent is $635. Household median income in Dumas is $35,373, and the individual median income is $21,617. Dumas’s Ethnic is the following: Black(62.6%), White(33.4%), Hispanic(10.5%), Other(2.9%), Asian(1.2%).
In 1870, a planter, merchant and surveyor of French descent, William B. Dumas, bought acres of farmland from the Abercrombie Holmes family. The area was named Watson District and the town continued to develop. Then, the District was renamed Dumas and was incorporated in 1904.Dumas proudly proclaims itself as "Home of the Ding Dong Daddy", a reference to the vaudeville song "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas" by Phil Baxter.
However, this is up for debate, as the city of Dumas, Texas, also lays claim, with some documentation, to the song being about them.On February 24, 2007, Dumas was struck by a long-tracked F3 tornado. 28 people were injured, and many homes and business were damaged or destroyed. Police said on CNN that "the feed mill was the local employer and now it is gone".
Following the storm, U.S. Senator Mark Pryor criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts.On March 19, 2022, two gunmen killed one person and injured at least 26 others, including six children, at the Hood-Nic Festival, an annual car show held in the city.
One suspect was later arrested and admitted to firing a gun at another man present at the festival.
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