Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
Stovall , also known as Prarieville,
[2] 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.
[3] It is located on the former
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and in 1910 was home to two general stores.
[2] The Stovall Gin Company once operated a cotton gin in Stovall.
[4]
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.
[5]
Ethnomusicologist
Alan Lomax recorded
Muddy Waters in 1941 and 1942 in Stovall.
[6]
Carson Mounds , a large
Mississippian culture
archaeological site , is located in Stovall.
[7]
Notable people
References
^
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stovall, Mississippi
^
a
b 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 .