Tollette, Arkansas | |
|---|---|
 Location of Tollette in Howard County, Arkansas. | |
| Coordinates: 33°49′9″N 93°53′45″W / 33.81917°N 93.89583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arkansas |
| County | Howard |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.96 sq mi (2.49 km2) |
| • Land | 0.96 sq mi (2.49 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 360 ft (110 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 185 |
| • Density | 192.11/sq mi (74.21/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| FIPS code | 05-69500 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0058751[2] |
Tollette is a town in southern Howard County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 240 at the 2010 census,[3] down from 324 in 2000.
Tollette was established as an all-African American town by Sanford Tollette and his wife Caldonia Crofton Tollette in the 1800s. They built a church, a store, and a public school. Caldonia Tollette was postmistress of the United States Post Office in 1893. Their daughter, Mattye Tollette Bond began a teaching career at the age of fifteen. She married Ollie Seahorn Bond and resided in his hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee where they organized the first NAACP chapter in Haywood County in 1939. Sanford and Caldonia's granddaughter Mildred Bond Roxborough began working for the NAACP in Tennessee at the age of nine in 1935 and continued her distinguished service to the organization in New York from 1954 through 1997 rising to executive positions including Director of Operations.[4]
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tollette, Arkansas
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Tollette town, Arkansas". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 21, 2017.[dead link]
- ^ Bond, Jo Zanice, Race, Place, and Family Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement in Brownsvile, Tennessee, and the Nation, University of Kansas Press, 2011, 25. a