Editing Doddsville, Mississippi (section)

==History==
Daniel Doddsman Sr. and his eldest son, Daniel Jr. were early settlers who hauled logs in the area in 1888, and purchased {{convert|107|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of land where the town now stands in 1891.<ref name="bell">{{cite web | last = Bell | first = Torey | title = The Town of Doddsville | publisher = Rootsweb | url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mssunflo/Doddsville.html | accessdate = September 1, 2013}}</ref>  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 {{convert|2300|acre|ha|abbr=on}} plantation.<ref name="bell"/><ref name="Mills">{{cite book | last = Mills | first = Kay | title = This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | publisher = University of Kentucky Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-8131-9182-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/thislittlelighto00mill_0| url-access = registration }}</ref>

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, Mississippi|Vicksburg]] would follow the [[Yazoo River]] and then Sunflower River as far as Standing Stump, where a post office was located.<ref name="bell"/>

When the [[Yazoo Delta Railroad]] was completed in 1897, a depot was located in the town and named "Doddsville", after the Dodds brothers.<ref name="bell"/>  By 1898, Doddsville had five stores, and the Sunflower Lumber Company was founded.<ref name="bell"/>

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.<ref name="bell"/>

A jail was built in 1952, and a town water system installed in 1963.<ref name="bell"/>