The Deering School District is made up of these small communities:
GOBLER
A small community located on Route NN about 4.9 miles southwest of Deering. Here is a link to a great article about the history of Gobler and the Gobler Mercantile Store. Elvis Presley himself played two shows at a roadhouse in Gobler called the B & B Club just south of town on two occasions, on April 8, 1955 and September 28, 1955. The B & B Club burned down in 1962.
A Gobler Landmark - the Soul Shack aka G-Town.
Ragins Salvage Yard and Trucking Company.
The Gobler Baptist Church.
BRAGGADOCIO
A community located at the junction of Route J and Route Z about 3.2 miles east of Deering. It was settled as early as 1846 and was known as Hardbargain until around 1880 when a post office was established. The name Braggadocio came from Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queen" which was written in 1596, and how the townsfolk chose that name is a mystery. The population of Braggadocio grew from 89 in 1870 to 413 in 1900 when the town of Deering was founded. The two story brick high school building, which still stands today, was built in 1923. The first class graduated from Braggadocio High School that same year and the last class graduated in 1966.
The new Braggadocio Baptist Church. The original building was destroyed in the 2006 tornado.
The Braggadocio school. It is now the Crossroads Worship Center.
TINKERVILLE
An unicorporated community located at the junction of Route NN and Route J just north of Gobler. A great migration of people from the Latter-Day Saints Church in Louisianna bought hundred of acres of land adjacent to each other just west of the Pemiscot/Dunklin county line in the 1920s and moved in and cleared up the land and began farming it. The first school at Tinkerville was called Mapleview and was began around 1930. Tinkerville was named after Mr. B.L. Tinker who owned forty acres just southwest of the school and had a grocery store on the northeast corner of his farm. Mr. Charles B. Baker built a cotton gin next to the store building, and later sold it to Massey Ferguson. Later, they sold the gin to Bert Richardson. This area was all originally party of the Wisconsin Lumber Company Holdings.
BAKERVILLE
A small community located on HWY 412 north of Deering. This was one of the last settlements in Pemiscot County. It was an outgrowth of the old A.B. Smith Sawmill, and was first named Hillsman Taylor in honor of an official of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company which had bought lots of the land in this area. After General American Life Insurance Company merged with Missouri State, the name of the place was changed to Bakerville, in honor of Charles B. Baker who was the field man for the company. Before this time there was no road from Kennett to Caruthersville. What we now know as HWY 412 was begun in 1918 and not finished for several years. With its completion, the small settlement at the sawmill dispersed and Bakerville was born. In 1942, the General American Life Insurance company gave the people of the Church of Christ land to build their first building. They sold this building in 1963 and built a brick church building just north of where the Smith Sawmill was. The Bakerville Church of Christ is still active today.
The Bakerville Church of Christ.
The Bakerville Cotton Gin.
MANGOLD'S GROVE
Community located on HWY 412 between Bakerville and Hayti. This settlement was originally called Skinner's Place for J.A. and Leonard Skinner who owned it. There was a large building there which housed a grocery store and a night club. In the 1930s , several killings took place there, and according to many accounts, it was known as one of the roughest places in the county. In 1937, Clarence Edward Mangold moved his wife and three children - Lois, Earvie and Betty - there from Kennett, originally coming from Mayfield, Kentucky, and bought the grocery store from the Skinners. The settlement then became known as Mangolds Grove for the large grove of trees that grew south of the store. The Fourth of July celebrations there became widely known, and gypsies would pitch their tents there and large jamborees would take place. The daughter of Clarence Mangold, Betty Mangold Taylor, lived at Mangolds Grove all her life and taught at Deering school system for many years, first as a counselor, then as a third grade teacher.
Mangold's Grove.
VICKSBURG/DOGSKIN
A historical settlement located southeast of Deering on CR 433. As early as 1891, this little settlement was referred to as Dogskin. When the early citizens applied for a post office, the postal department refused to let them officially name it Dogskin. J.P. Vickery was the school teacher in the little one-room schoolhouse, so they decided to name it for him, thus calling it Vicksburg. A little after this time, J.P. Vickrey left the area to attend medical school, only to return in a few years as the community doctor. Vicksburg had a post office from 1913 to 1916. Back then, there was a one room schoolhouse that was used as a Church of God on Sunday. The Church of God at Vicksburg remained active through April 2003, when the congregation bought the old Braggadocio High School and turned it into their worship center, now known as "The Crossroads".
