Sibley is a

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in south Webster Parish,

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, United States. The population was 1,218 at the 2010 census. It is part of the

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Micropolitan Statistical Area. The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior/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 the nearby unincorporated community of Yellow Pine is an area 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.

Geography

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 2020 United States census, there were 1,127 people, 554 households, and 396 families residing in the town.

Notable person

* Provine Bradley (1907-1986), Negro league baseball player

Gallery

Image:Revised Calloway Corners, Sibley, LA IMG 0353.JPG, Calloway Corners

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north of Sibley Image:Baptist Tabernacle, Sibley, LA (under construction) IMG 0402.JPG, Baptist Tabernacle sanctuary under construction in Sibley Image:Revised First Baptist Church, Sibley, LA IMG 3594.JPG, The First

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Church of Sibley was organized with fourteen members in February 1922, as an outreach of the First Baptist Church of

, with G. M. Harrell as the founding pastor."Sibley First Baptist grows from 14 members", ''Minden Press-Herald'', July 31, 1987, p. 2C Image:Lakeside Junior-Senior High School, Sibley, LA IMG 0362.jpg, Lakeside Junior and Senior High School south of Sibley Image:Revised Sibley United Methodist Church, Sibley, LA IMG 0400.JPG, First

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Church in Sibley (pastor Milton Geltz, 2010) is adjacent to Lane Memorial Cemetery. Image:Revised, Lane Memorial Cemetery, Sibley, LA IMG 0401.JPG, Lane Memorial Cemetery

References

External links

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