75-525: Duck Hill is a town in Montgomery County, Mississippi , United States. The population was 619 at the 2020 census, down from 732 in 2010 . Duck Hill is located on U.S. Route 51 , midway between Grenada and Winona . Big Bogue Creek flows east and north of the town. The Lucie E. Campbell Gospel and Heritage Festival takes place each summer in Duck Hill. Duck Hill is named for a large hill northeast of
150-645: A pride parade . The organizers initiated legal action, after which the city reversed its decision. The parade was held in March 2018 with almost 3,000 attendees. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 25.8 square miles (66.9 km ), of which 25.7 square miles (66.5 km ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km ) (0.58%) is water. U.S. Route 82 and Mississippi Highways 12 and 25 are major roads through Starkville. US 82 runs east to west across
225-582: A Republican Meeting at a church in Chapel Hill, Mississippi, killing a black man, a group of black men planned a march in Starkville. They were met at a bridge near the A & M dairy barn by white men from Starkville and West Point armed with cannon loaded with buckshot and iron. In 1915, two African-American men, Dit Seals and Peter Bolen, were hanged in a public execution while a crowd of 5,000, including blacks and whites, and children watched and sang There
300-451: A black man accused of raping a white girl to be lynched by running him down with hounds. In 1875 a fire destroyed 52 buildings. The entire business district was destroyed. A carpetbagger named McLaughlin, who served as the local head of the Freedmen's Bureau , assisted in the establishment of a black Methodist church and established a cooperative store for blacks in his home. This enraged
375-583: A depot at Duck Hill. This stimulated its businesses. The line is now used for freight operation by the Grenada Railway . A train wreck occurred at Duck Hill on October 19, 1862, during the American Civil War , when in the early morning hours two trains collided head-on, killing 34 men. Most of the dead were Confederate soldiers. It was the South's worst loss of life in a train accident to that time. During
450-493: A female householder with no husband present, and 50.1% were non-families. 32.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.92. The age distribution, strongly influenced by the presence of Mississippi State, was 18.8% under 18, 29.7% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 15.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
525-508: A household in the county was $ 25,270, and the median income for a family was $ 31,602. Males had a median income of $ 26,590 versus $ 17,639 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 14,040. About 21.90% of families and 24.30% of the population were below the poverty line , including 34.80% of those under age 18 and 25.40% of those age 65 or over. 33°30′N 89°37′W / 33.50°N 89.61°W / 33.50; -89.61 Starkville, Mississippi Starkville
600-411: A one-room jailhouse were constructed in 1835. The jailhouse was unusual in that it had no doors or windows. Prisoners were made to climb a ladder to the roof and then let down through a trap door using a rope. The first newspaper was founded in 1847. Originally titled The Starkville Whig , it was later renamed The Broad Ax . In 1865, during reconstruction, the officer in charge of Starkville allowed
675-464: A quarantine of Starkville's railroads by the towns of West Point, Columbus, Artesia and Kosciusko. This resulted in a depletion of medical and other supplies which ultimately resulted in intervention by the state. Before the Civil War, Colonel Montgomery imported cattle from the isle of Jersey , initiating the areas prominence as a dairy center. In 1912, the co-operative creamery was created, and in 1926
750-400: A religious affiliation; most are Christian. Of those claiming affiliation, 41.59% self-identify as Protestant , including 25% Baptist and 11% Methodist . Lower percentages identify as Catholic , Mormon , Hindu and Muslim . The Cotton District is a neighborhood located in Starkville that was redeveloped as part of the new urbanism movement. It was founded in 1969 by Dan Camp, who
825-503: A result of this disparity in the racial demographics of the two districts, Oktibbeha County was placed under a Federal desegregation order. Previous attempts to consolidate the two districts during the 1990s and in 2010 had been unsuccessful, but following an act of the Mississippi Legislature the two were consolidated in 2015. Contrary to predictions, the public schools experienced an inflow of students from private schools when
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#1733114402717900-550: A thriving mill town after iron ore was found nearby. Financial speculation followed. Tour of our Southern Correspondent reported in The New York Times : Duck Hill is the euphonious appellation of a straggling wee bit of a hamlet down in the depths of Mississippi, a dozen miles or so from Grenada, on the Illinois Central Railroad, known to the world and to history in something less than a wholesale way. Duck Hill
975-573: Is a city in, and the county seat of, Oktibbeha County , Mississippi , United States . As of the 2020 United States census , Starkville's population is 24,360, making it the 16th-most populated city in Mississippi. Starkville is the largest city in the Golden Triangle , which had a population of 175,474 in 2020, and the principal city of the Starkville-Columbus, MS CSA . Founded in 1831,
1050-542: Is a Land of Pure Delight . The crowd ate lunch while the execution was being conducted. Vendors were on hand selling popcorn, soda pop and sandwiches. The men had been convicted of killing Willie Taylor, an African-American porter on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The story was widely reported as a "gala hanging" sponsored by the merchants of Starkville by various newspapers including the New York World and Chicago Tribune , while
1125-531: Is an active student quarter located between downtown Starkville and the university campus. The Starkville area has been inhabited for over 2,100 years. Artifacts in the form of clay pot fragments and artwork dating from that time period have been found east of Starkville at the Herman Mound and Village site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The village site can be accessed from
1200-606: Is similarly split between Mississippi Senate districts 15 and 16 represented by Republican Bart Williams and Democrat Angela Turner-Ford. Starkville and Oktibbeha County are in the northern districts of the Mississippi Transportation Commission and Public Service Commission , represented by Republican John Caldwell and Democrat Brandon Presley . Starkville is in Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District , represented by Congressman Michael Guest . In 1927,
1275-688: Is water. It is the fourth-smallest county in Mississippi by total area. This area was occupied in historic times by the Choctaw people . Their ancestors had inhabited the area for thousands of years. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the United States forced most of the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River in order to open their lands to settlement by European Americans. Much of
1350-410: The 2020 United States census , there were 9,822 people, 4,539 households, and 3,064 families residing in the county. As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 10,925 people living in the county. 53.0% were White , 45.5% Black or African American , 0.4% Asian , 0.1% Native American , 0.5% of some other race and 0.5% of two or more races . 0.9% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). As of
1425-590: The Montgomery County School District , which operated Montgomery County High School and Montgomery County Elementary School. The aforementioned schools were located in Kilmichael . The Duck Hill Head Start Center is a preschool located at 620 Carrollton St. At one time Duck Hill had its own elementary school, Duck Hill Elementary School; circa 2001 it had around 100 students. At that time school district officials were considering closing it and moving
1500-495: The census of 2000, there were 12,189 people, 4,690 households, and 3,367 families living in the county. The population density was 30 people per square mile (12 people/km ). There were 5,402 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile (5.0/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 54.25% White , 44.95% Black or African American , 0.08% Native American , 0.25% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 0.07% from other races , and 0.37% from two or more races. 0.85% of
1575-410: The poverty line , including 29.3% of those under age 18 and 17.8% of those age 65 or over. Starkville has more than 80 places of worship, which serve most religious traditions. Faculty, staff and students at Mississippi State University , including those from other nations, have greatly increased the city's diversity. As of October 2007, approximately half (49.74%) of the residents of Starkville claim
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#17331144027171650-460: The Borden Condensary was established. In April 1912, Gabe (sometimes reported as Abe) Coleman, an African-American man was accused of attacking a farmer's wife and was shot to death by a mob. Nine men were tried for the murder. In February 1912, another African-American man, Mann Hamilton, was murdered by a mob for allegedly attacking a woman. Following an incident in which whites fired into
1725-661: The Civil War, Binford's sons, James R. and John A. Jr., helped lead the Confederate "Company E" of the 15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment from Duck Hill, known as the "McClung Rifles". James R. Binford later was elected to the Mississippi State Senate . After white Democrats regained control of the state legislature following the Reconstruction era , Binford wrote the notorious Jim Crow laws for Mississippi. In 1887, regional businessmen hoped that Duck Hill would become
1800-659: The Detroit Times described it as little better than a lynching. In 1922, Starkville was the site of a large rally of the Ku Klux Klan . In 1926 the Borden Condensery was established, the first condensery in the southern U.S. At the time, Starkville was served by two railroads, the Illinois Central and the Mobile and Ohio. In 1970, several Black organizations organized a boycott or selective buying campaign. This
1875-599: The House, but the white Democrats of the Solid South (most blacks in the region were disenfranchised) blocked it in the Senate, with Senator Allen Ellender even proclaiming, "We shall at all cost preserve the white supremacy of America." Their colleagues had similarly defeated anti-lynching legislation in the 1920s that was passed overwhelmingly by the House. Duck Hill is in northwestern Montgomery County. U.S. Route 51 passes through
1950-621: The Indian Mound Campground. The earthwork mounds were made by early Native Americans of moundbuilder cultures as part of their religious and political cosmology. Shortly before the American Revolutionary War period, the area was inhabited by the Choccuma (or Chakchiuma ) tribe. They were annihilated about that time by a rare alliance between the Choctaw and Chickasaw peoples. The modern European-American settlement of
2025-564: The Mississippi State University campus. The school will serve as an instructional site for students and faculty of Mississippi State University's College of Education, and as a one-of-a-kind rural education research center. Construction on the partnership school began in spring 2017. The school opened in August 2020. Prior to integration, African-American students in Starkville attended the historic Henderson High School . The school
2100-553: The Starkville area was started after the Choctaw inhabitants of Oktibbeha County surrendered their claims to land in the area in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. Most of the Native Americans of the Southeast were forced west of the Mississippi River during the 1830s and Indian Removal. White settlers were drawn to the Starkville area because of two large springs near the old part of
2175-513: The United States. He built the first home in the area, and developed his property as a cotton plantation, based on enslaved African American workers . He became one of the region's most successful planters and large slaveholders. Binford was elected to the Mississippi Legislature . Duck Hill was a trading center for the cotton planters. In 1856 the Illinois Central Railroad completed a line from Chicago to New Orleans , and it built
2250-421: The age of 18 living with them, 44.3% were married couples living together, 16.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.5% were non-families. 33.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.11. In the town, the population was spread out, with 30.3% under
2325-461: The age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.5 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 69.9 males. The median income for a household in the town was $ 24,118, and the median income for a family was $ 29,375. Males had a median income of $ 26,731 versus $ 15,639 for females. The per capita income for
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2400-462: The area of present-day Montgomery County was developed for cotton plantations before and after the Civil War, when it was still part of Choctaw County. Most of the labor was supplied by African Americans, enslaved before the war and freed afterward. The county was organized by the legislature in 1871, during the Reconstruction era . The eastern hilly areas became a center of timber industry. From 1877 to 1950, there were 10 known lynchings of blacks in
2475-450: The area. As of the 2020 United States Census , there were 24,360 people, 10,092 households, and 4,895 families residing in the city. As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 23,888 people, 9,845 households, and 4,800 families residing in the city. The population density was 936.4 inhabitants per square mile (361.5/km ). There were 11,767 housing units at an average density of 396.7 per square mile (153.2/km ). The racial makeup of
2550-446: The center of town, leading south 12 miles (19 km) to Winona , the county seat , and northwest 11 miles (18 km) to Grenada . Mississippi Highway 404 passes through the town as well, leading east 14 miles (23 km) to Alva and west 5 miles (8 km) to Interstate 55 . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the town of Duck Hill has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km), all land. Big Bogue Creek forms part of
2625-621: The city and the Rosenwald Foundation opened a pair of schools, the Rosenwald School and the Oktibbeha County Training School , later known as Henderson High School , for its African-American residents. In 1970, integration caused the merger of these schools with the white schools. Henderson was repurposed as a junior high school, and the Rosenwald School was burned to the ground. Until 2015, Starkville and much of
2700-475: The city of Clarksville, Tennessee , in the same county. The Big Black River passes through the southern part of the county, flowing southwest to its confluence with the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 408 square miles (1,060 km ), of which 407 square miles (1,050 km ) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km ) (0.2%)
2775-402: The city was 58.5% white , 34.06% African American , 0.2% Native American , 3.75% Asian , 0.1% Pacific Islander , 0.64% from other races , and 1.3% from two or more races . Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1.8% of the population. There were 9,845 households, out of which 24.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% were married couples living together, 13.0% had
2850-492: The city was originally known as Boardtown for the local sawmilling operation there, but was renamed in 1837 to honor American Revolutionary War general John Stark . Starkville is adjacent to and closely associated with Mississippi State University , which was founded as the state's flagship land-grant research university in 1878. The university was located near Starkville in the Mississippi Black Belt due to
2925-542: The consolidated district. Mississippi State University is partially in the Starkville city limits, and partially in the Mississippi State census-designated place . East Mississippi Community College is the designated community college for the county, but does not operate facilities in it. Starkville-Oktibbeha County Public Library System maintains the Starkville Library. Pilot Charles Lindbergh ,
3000-596: The county courthouse in Winona, after being charged in the December 1936 murder of a white merchant in Duck Hill, after Townes purportedly confessed to police. They were abducted from the courthouse and lynched . A white crowd estimated at 100 had gathered on April 13. A group of 12 white men took the two blacks by school bus to a site in Duck Hill, where they were tortured to confess before being shot and burned to death. A crowd estimated at 300 to 500 whites gathered to watch. By 1 pm,
3075-466: The county was in 1910. In addition to labor changes because of mechanization of agriculture, blacks left in two waves of the Great Migration out of the rural and small town South seeking jobs, education, relief from Jim Crow and violence, and better opportunities in other regions. As a result, Mississippi changed from majority black (56%) in population in 1910 to majority white (63%) by 1970. As of
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3150-582: The county, fewer than in many other counties of the state. It was a form of racial terrorism that was at its height at the turn of the 20th century. Some studies have shown that the rate of lynchings related to economic stresses among whites. Beginning in 1890, Mississippi and other southern states largely excluded blacks from the formal political system by disenfranchisement , creating barriers to voter registration through constitutional amendments and other laws. On April 13, 1937, two African-American men, Roosevelt Townes and "Bootjack" McDaniels, were arraigned at
3225-535: The first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, made a successful landing on the outskirts of Starkville in 1927 during his Guggenheim Tour . He stayed overnight at a boarding house in the Maben community. Lindbergh later wrote about that landing in his autobiographical account of his barnstorming days, titled WE. Starkville is one of several places in the United States that claims to have created Tee Ball . Tee Ball
3300-548: The governmental sovereignty of the state..." At the time a federal anti-lynching bill was under consideration by Congress. It passed the House, but it was defeated in the Senate by the Solid South , conservative white Democrats. As was typical of lynchings, no one was ever prosecuted for the murders. Nazi Germany reported the lynching, comparing it to the "humanism" of its anti-Semitic laws. As in much of rural Mississippi, population in this county declined markedly from 1910 to 1920, and from 1940 to 1970. The peak of population in
3375-640: The local public library, the Mississippi State University Library has the largest collection in Mississippi. The Mississippi State Mitchell Memorial Library also hosts the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana . Executive and legislative authority in the city of Starkville is respectively vested in a mayor and seven-member board of aldermen concurrently elected to four-year terms. Since 2017
3450-412: The mayor has been Lynn Spruill, a Democrat and the first female mayor elected in Starkville's history. Starkville has a strong-mayor government, with the mayor having the power to appoint city officials and veto decisions by the board of aldermen. Starkville is split between Mississippi House districts 38 and 43, currently represented by Democrat Cheikh Taylor and Republican Rob Roberson. The city
3525-410: The night and began firing into the town. There were no injuries. The soldiers were upset about a recent white assault against a group of black soldiers at nearby Starkville . Senator Trent Lott , whose father sharecropped a stretch of cotton field in Duck Hill during the 1940s, said in 1999 while supporting a bill for public education: I am a product of public education from the first grade through
3600-558: The north part of town. Lucie Campbell , a singer and composer of gospel music, was born in Duck Hill and a small memorial recounting her achievements in the music industry is located near the statue of Chief Duck. The following is a list of churches in Duck Hill: Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District serves Duck Hill and operates its schools in Winona . Duck Hill was formerly served by
3675-624: The northern border of the town and flows northward to Batupan Bogue , a north-flowing tributary of the Yalobusha River , part of the Yazoo River watershed. Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. As of the census of 2000, there were 746 people, 307 households, and 201 families residing in
3750-494: The northern portion of the city as a bypass, leading east 25 mi (40 km) to Columbus and northwest 28 mi (45 km) to Eupora . Route 25 leads south 31 mi (50 km) to Louisville and Route 12 leads southwest 26 mi (42 km) to Ackerman . The nearest airport with scheduled service is Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTR). George M. Bryan Field (KSTF) serves as Starkville's general aviation airport. There are multiple privately owned airstrips in
3825-594: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Montgomery County were African 44.95%, English 42.1%, and Scots-Irish 1%. There were 4,690 households, out of which 32.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.50% were married couples living together, 18.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.20% were non-families. 26.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.60% had someone living alone who
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#17331144027173900-481: The post-Reconstruction period into the 20th century. Most occurred in the decades near the turn of the 20th century. The men had been arraigned in the Montgomery County Courthouse in the county seat of Winona , charged with murdering George Windham, a grocer in Duck Hill, in December 1936. Both men pleaded not guilty. Outside the courthouse a crowd had gathered, and then a group of 12 white men abducted
3975-713: The predominantly white Starkville School district merged with the predominantly black Oktibbeha schools. The schools continue to operate under a Federal desegregation order. The following schools of the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District are located in Starkville: In 2015 it was announced that SOCSD and Mississippi State University would cooperate in establishing a partnership school. The school will be for all grade 6 and 7 students in Oktibbeha County and will be located on
4050-457: The region's agricultural productivity, particularly in the timber, cattle, and dairying industries. The expansion of the university transformed Starkville from a primarily agricultural center into a college town , and its economy today is mostly centered around advanced research and manufacturing, retail, and tourism supported by the university population. The Cotton District , developed in the 1960s as North America's first New Urbanist community,
4125-474: The second, third, and fourth grades where I went to school at Duck Hill, Mississippi, and I had better teachers in the second, third, and fourth grades in Duck Hill, Mississippi, than I had the rest of my life. The brutal lynching of two black men, Roosevelt Townes and Robert "Bootjack" McDaniels, in Duck Hill mid-day on April 13, 1937, gained national publicity. These were among nine lynchings of African Americans by whites in Montgomery County, Mississippi , from
4200-461: The students to Kilmichael Elementary. The district also, at one time, operated Duck Hill High School. Effective July 1, 2018, the Montgomery County and Winona Separate School District consolidated into the Winona-Montgomery district. Montgomery County, Mississippi Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi . As of the 2020 census , the population
4275-513: The surrounding area was served by the Starkville School District (SSD) while Oktibbeha County was served by Oktibbeha County School District (OCSD). The two districts were realigned following integration in 1970 in a way that placed Starkville and majority-white, relatively affluent areas immediately outside of the city limits into SSD while the remaining portions of Oktibbeha County, which are over 90% Black, were placed into OCSD. As
4350-596: The time used the murders for propaganda, contrasting the lynchings to controls in Nazi Germany under the "humane" Nuremberg racial laws . Such publicity enabled Joseph A. Gavagan (D-New York) to gain support for anti-lynching legislation he had put forward in the House of Representatives ; it was supported in the Senate by Democrats Robert F. Wagner (New York) and Frederick Van Nuys (Indiana). The legislation eventually passed in
4425-482: The town was $ 11,550. About 18.9% of families and 21.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 21.3% of those under age 18 and 32.6% of those age 65 or over. There are several small businesses within the town limits. Of those include a small Jiffy Mart gas station where U.S. Route 51 and Main Street intersect and a Regions Bank . In September 2009, a Dollar General was opened adjacent to U.S. Route 51 in
4500-421: The town, where "Duck", a Choctaw chief, held war councils. Chief Duck was also a medicine man or shaman who treated his people. A statue of Chief Duck is located on U.S. Route 51 in Duck Hill, next to an old Illinois Central caboose. The first European-American settler in the area was John A. Binford in 1834, who acquired land following Indian Removal of the Choctaw , who were forced to cede their lands to
4575-489: The town, which Native Americans had used for thousands of years. A mill on the Big Black River southwest of town produced clapboards , giving the town its original name, Boardtown in 1834. The first court met in 1834 under a large tree. In 1835, when Boardtown was established as the county seat of Oktibbeha County , it was renamed as Starkville in honor of Revolutionary War hero General John Stark . A log courthouse and
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#17331144027174650-477: The town. The high school's gymnasium is used as a community center. In 2012, a committee of volunteers was established to preserve the high school, which has suffered from vandalism. During World War II, African Americans from across the country were among soldiers trained and stationed in the South. Many resented the segregation of public facilities they were forced to observe. In 1943, fifteen armed black soldiers from nearby Camp McCain came to Duck Hill during
4725-412: The town. The population density was 720.8 inhabitants per square mile (278.3/km). There were 331 housing units at an average density of 319.8 per square mile (123.5/km). The racial makeup of the town was 63.27% African American , 36.06% White and 0.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.80% of the population. There were 307 households, out of which 36.8% had children under
4800-411: The two accused men from the courthouse. Townes and McDaniels were loaded into a school bus and driven to a wooded area near Duck Hill. Hundreds of white people followed, and a crowd estimated at 300-500 looked on as Townes and McDaniels were each chained to a tree. A blowtorch was used to torture them, until each confessed to Windham's murder. Gasoline was doused on Townes, and on brush around him, and he
4875-731: The white citizens so the Klan attacked the store. On May 5, 1879, two black men who had been accused of burning a barn, Nevlin Porter and Johnson Spencer, were taken from the jail by a mob of men and hung from crossties of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad . In 1888, a mob hanged an African-American man, Eli Bryant, for an alleged attack on a white woman. Several newspapers were founded in this time period, including The Starkville News in 1891. Early banks included The Peoples Bank in 1889 and Security State Bank in 1896. A yellow fever epidemic in 1898 resulted in
4950-520: The wire services and other national media had learned of the event and were trying to gain more information. The lynchings were reported nationally in the United States and widely condemned. Representative Hatton W. Sumners (D-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee , sent a telegram to Governor Hugh L. White decrying the lynching. He said, "It is the sort of thing which makes it hard for those of us who are here trying to protect
5025-410: Was 25 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.5 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 31,357, and the median income for a family was $ 40,557. Males had a median income of $ 35,782 versus $ 23,711 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 22,787. About 19.1% of families and 33.6% of the population were below
5100-457: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.10. In the county, the population was spread out, with 26.80% under the age of 18, 8.90% from 18 to 24, 25.30% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 16.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 86.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.10 males. The median income for
5175-432: Was 9,822. Its county seat is Winona . The county is said to be named in honor either of Richard Montgomery , an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City , Canada , or for Montgomery County, Tennessee , from which an early settler came. In the latter case, it would have been indirectly named after John Montgomery , a settler in Montgomery County, Tennessee, who founded
5250-452: Was burned to death. McDaniels was riddled with bullets, and fatally shot through the head. The police officers who had been guarding the two defendants said they were unable to identify any members of the mob. As was typical in lynching cases, no one was charged in the abduction or murders. Newspapers carried a photograph of McDaniels' burned and tortured body chained to a tree, and the lynchings were nationally condemned. German newspapers at
5325-551: Was later re-purposed as Starkville School District's junior high school and is now an elementary school. Private schools in Starkville include: Starkville Academy has been described as a segregation academy . Despite fears that the consolidation of the Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in 2015 would lead to additional White flight to private schools, district consolidation actually resulted in decreased enrollment at area private schools as more white parents living in Oktibbeha County opted to enroll their children in
5400-405: Was met with firebombings, and a crowd of African-Americans assembled near Henderson High School was broken up by gunfire. On March 21, 2006, Starkville became the first city in Mississippi to adopt a smoking ban for indoor public places, including restaurants and bars. This ordinance went into effect on May 20, 2006. In February 2018, Starkville denied a local LGBTQ organization a permit to host
5475-486: Was named for Lloyd T. Binford , a Memphis insurance executive and film censor, and the son of state senator James R. Binford. Lloyd Binford was noted for his views on "Southern womanhood" and white supremacy .) The city also built an agriculture education facility for its vocational students, who were overwhelmingly African American in the segregated system. A new elementary school was constructed in 1963. The schools have since been closed because of declining population in
5550-583: Was the developer, owner and property manager of much of the area. The architecture of the Cotton District has historical elements and scale, with Greek Revival mixed with Classical or Victorian. It is a compact, walkable neighborhood that contains many restaurants and bars, in addition to thousands of unique residential units. The Starkville-Oktibbeha County Public Library System is headquartered at its main branch in Downtown Starkville. In addition to
5625-462: Was the site of a railroad robbery in 1888. Two armed men, Rube Burrow and Joe Jackson, clung to the outside of a train as it left the station, then climbed to the engine cab. They ordered the engineer to stop the train about a mile north of town. The robbers plundered the express car's safe of $ 3,000, killing one man who tried to intervene. In 1930, the Lloyd T. Binford High School opened in Duck Hill. (It
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