Boykin, Alabama
Boykin, Alabama | |
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Rear view of the detached kitchen and former plantation home of the Mark Pettway family, called Sandyridge, in Boykin April 1937. The house was demolished a short time later. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein. | |
Location of Boykin in Wilcox County, Alabama. | |
| Coordinates: 32°04′10″N 87°17′29″W / 32.06944°N 87.29139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Wilcox |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.81 sq mi (7.27 km2) |
| • Land | 2.80 sq mi (7.24 km2) |
| • Water | 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 197 ft (60 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 208 |
| • Density | 74.4/sq mi (28.73/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 36723 |
| Area code | 334 |
| FIPS code | 01-08680 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2628580 |
Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 208. The Boykin Post Office was established in the community in 1949 and remains active, servicing the 36723 ZIP code.
Gee's Bend was named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina who settled here in 1816. Gee brought 18 African American slaves with him and established a cotton plantation within the bend.