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.
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.
Annie Pettway Bendolph carrying water, 1937. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
Children rehearsing around a maypole for health day exercises, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
Old cable ferry between Camden and Gees Bend, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
Wilcox County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,600. Its county seat is Camden.
Wilcox County Courthouse in Camden, Alabama