Sibley is a

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Micropolitan Statistical Area. The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior and Senior High School, is located south of town off Louisiana Highway 7. The Sibley Town Hall was relocated to a portion of the former Sibley High School campus. In a predominantly African American section of Yellow Pine is a community formerly known as "King Solomon Hill," centered on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church. (The community is now known as "Salt Works.") The blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow concluded that it was from this address that

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chose to give the blues musician Joe Holmes, a resident of Sibley, the recording name of King Solomon Hill.Wardlow, Gayle Dean. ''Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues''. 1998. Miller Freeman Books. . p. 211. Originally published as ''One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill'' in Blues Unlimited No. 148 (Winter 1987).

Geography

Sibley is located at (32.540704, -93.293208). According to the

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, the town has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.4 km), of which 3.9 square miles (10.0 km) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.4 km) (3.49%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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, there were 1,127 people, 554 households, and 396 families residing in the town.

Notable people

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(1907-1986), Negro league baseball player

References

External links

* {{authority control Towns in Louisiana Towns in Webster Parish, Louisiana