Stovall, Mississippi
Stovall, also known as Prarieville, is an unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, along Mississippi Highway 1, 7 miles (11 km) north of Sherard and approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Friars Point.
History
Stovall is named after the Stovall family, who owned the land where the railroad depot was located. It is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and in 1910 was home to two general stores. The Stovall Gin Company once operated a cotton gin in Stovall.
Although Stovall is unincorporated, it has a ZIP code of 38614. A post office operated under the name Prarieville from 1878 to 1885 and began operating under the name Stovall in 1885.
Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded Muddy Waters in 1941 and 1942 in Stovall.
Carson Mounds, a large Mississippian culture archaeological site, is located in Stovall.
Notable people
- Eddie Boyd, blues pianist, singer, and songwriter
- Willie Morganfield, gospel musician and minister
- William Howard Stovall, World War I flying ace, World War II fighter pilot
- Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield), blues singer-songwriter
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stovall, Mississippi
- ^ Howe, Tony. "Stovall, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Paul Schullery (1988). The Bear Hunter's Century. Stackpole Books. p. 62. GGKEY:J0EG9FBEF9S.
- ^ The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1976. p. 465.
- ^ "Coahoma County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Elder, Robert (August 19, 2005). "The day Muddy Waters heard himself sing the blues". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Calvin S. Brown (March 5, 2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-61703-349-0.
- ^ Mitsutoshi Inaba (2011). Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues. Scarecrow Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8108-6993-6.
- ^ Alan Young (1997). Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-87805-944-7.
- ^ Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney (1920). The Mid-South and Its Builders: Being the Story of the Development and a Forecast of the Future of the Richest Agricultural Region in the World. Mid-South Biographic and Historical Association. p. 626.
- ^ Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick (July 1, 2010). Mississippi Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-7627-6563-8.
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