223
95%
$26,417
3.6%
America/Chicago
38736
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Doddsville, MS - History
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Welcome to the Doddsville Home page. The Doddsville Home page provides as much information as possible on Doddsville. Knowing Doddsville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Doddsville’s Home page, you will also find Doddsville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Doddsville has a population of 223. 72.6% of Doddsville’s inhabitants are Male, and 27.4 are female. 9.5% of Doddsville is married and 94.6% own their own home. Household median income in Doddsville is $26,417, and the individual median income is $8,985. Doddsville’s Ethnic is the following: Black(98.7%), White(1.3%).
Daniel Doddsman Sr. and his eldest son, Daniel Jr. were early settlers who hauled logs in the area in 1888, and purchased 107 acres (43 ha) of land where the town now stands in 1891. Oliver Eastland, grandfather of U.S. Senator James Eastland, bought a large tract of land near Doddsville in the 1880s, and his son Woods Eastland used black labor to clear the land to create a 2,300 acres (930 ha) plantation.A landing called "Standing Stump" existed west of Doddsville on the bank of the Sunflower River.
When river levels rose in the spring, boats from Vicksburg would follow the Yazoo River and then Sunflower River as far as Standing Stump, where a post office was located.When the Yazoo Delta Railroad was completed in 1897, a depot was located in the town and named "Doddsville", after the Dodds brothers.
By 1898, Doddsville had five stores, and the Sunflower Lumber Company was founded.Doddsville was incorporated in 1920, and by 1922 the population was estimated at between 400 and 500. There was a hotel and rooming house, two drug stores with licensed pharmacists, two Chinese groceries, a Café, a dress shop, a school, two churches, a woman’s club, four doctors, and five passenger trains a day.
The city hall was located inside the Doddsville Land and Mercantile Company store.A jail was built in 1952, and a town water system installed in 1963.
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