[3][4] A landing called "Standing Stump" existed west of Doddsville on the bank of the Sunflower River.

[3] When the Yazoo Delta Railroad was completed in 1897, a depot was located in the town and named "Doddsville", after the Dodds brothers.

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.

Within days, a white mob had captured Holbert and his wife, after which the couple were tortured with oversized corkscrews, had their fingers and ears cut off to distribute to onlookers, and were burned to death while tied to a tree.

[5][6] The Holberts' gruesome murder inspired Bo Carter's 1936 blues hit All Around Man, with its references to "the butcher-man", "screwin", "grindin", and "bore your hole till the auger-man comes".

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 69 people, 85 households, and 65 families residing in the town.