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Douglassville was settled in the early 1850s in northern Cass County and named for John Douglass, an early resident who arrived from Georgia around 1850 and built a home of rough-hewn logs that stood until 1996.

The town grew up near Williamson Petty's ferry, established in 1850 and one of the best-known crossings of the Sulphur River, and many of its early settlers came from Georgia and Alabama to establish plantations along the Red River.

A Douglassville post office was established in 1854 and operated for well over a century, closing only in 1990.

By 1884 Douglassville had two churches, a district school, two gristmills, and two cotton gins, with a population estimated at 150.

The town's Masonic lodge, chartered in 1857 as Havana Lodge No. 191, and its Methodist church, founded in 1856, and Baptist church, organized in 1869, are among its oldest institutions.

Douglassville was not incorporated until the 1950s, roughly a hundred years after it was settled.

The town is unusually spread out for its size, covering about 6.3 square miles at the junction of State highways 8 and 77, about 12.5 miles north of Linden, the Cass County seat.

The 2020 census counted 211 people in Douglassville, down from 229 in 2010; at the 2000 census its 175 residents lived in 76 households.

The Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative, headquartered in town, is Douglassville's largest business today.