I know this is several years old but I thought I could give you some Idea of what this area today and in the past is like. I'm attaching an article for the Gammon Brothers who live and have been living just South of the area you were researching.

I live in the township (although nobody goes by that anymore) the demographic is till majority black/ African-American. Rural and mostly farm land for soybean, milo, rice and corn.