It's pretty despicable when somebody puts themselves up as some kind of "professional historian" and then acts like a human xerox machine and simply copies what they read somewhere without ANY CONFIRMATION by way of original documentation and then TAKES MONEY for the lies they ROUTINELY share with the reading public. Such is the case with much of what passes in THE PRESENT DAY as DOTHAN HISTORY. Consider these words written in the 21st century and published by an Alabama HYSTERIAN. He be a true PROFESSIONIST. "In 1885, residents of Poplar Head met and decided to incorporate their community. Since there was already a town named Poplar Head, a new name was in order. A local minister suggested they name the town Dothan, in honor of the biblical town located along the trade route between Syria and Egypt." According to the HISTORICAL ATLAS OF ALABAMA only one place in Alabama has EVER been named "Poplar Head" and that's the one associated with present-day Houston County. "Dothan" was not a new name. It had been the name of the closest post office to Poplar Head SINCE 1858. Unfortunately, it was discontinued in 1866 and when reestablished in 1871, the application for a post office was misspelled "Dothen". When the town of DOTHAN was incorporated in 1885, they took the name of the original post office and spelled the name correctly on the application for incorporation but the town was saddled with a post office named "Dothen" and a town named "Dothan" and it took until 1897 for the jokers in U.S. Post Office to finally clean up its act. The dismissive comment made by the HYTHERIAN about "the biblical town located along the trade between Syria and Egypt" fails to communicate that Dothan is location of the FIRST SALE OF A SLAVE in ALL biblical history and that slave was the great prophet of the book of GENESIS, Joseph. (from the January 22, 1910 DOTHAN EAGLE)