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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GO2_point-leflore_Greenwood-MS.html
N.E. 2 mi., at junction of Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Rivers is site of extinct town founded in 1830's by Greenwood Leflore. Achieved great prosperity in era before Civil War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GO0_greenwood-cotton-row-district_Greenwood-MS.html
District comprises state's most important concentration of buildings associated with marketing of cotton and with the state's post-Civil War cotton boom. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GNY_bobbie-gentry_Greenwood-MS.html
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Born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw County (1944) and spending her childhood here, Bobbie Gentry brought the accents, sounds and images of Delta life into scores of haunting songs she wrote and records she made, to become one of the mos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GNN_itta-bena_Itta-Bena-MS.html
Plantation home site (from which town was named) of Brig. Gen. Benj. G. Humphreys, C.S.A.. Elected governor of Mississippi, Oct., 1865. Forcibly removed by Carpetbag regime, June, 1868.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GNG_battery-c_Greenwood-MS.html
Battery C,
First Mississippi Field Artillery,
mustered into Federal Service
August 5, 1917 as Battery C,
140th F.A., 64th F.A. Brigade,
39th Division.
The Battery, composed of men from
Leflore and surrounding counties,
camped on this site until …