Greenville, Mississippi For other places with the same name, see Greenville .
Greenville, Mississippi City of Greenville Location of Greenville in Washington County Location of Greenville in Washington County Greenville, Mississippi is positioned in the US Greenville, Mississippi - Greenville, Mississippi State Mississippi Greenville is a small town/city and the governmental center of county of Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The populace was 34,400 at the 2010 census.
Located in the region of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta.
8.1 Born in Greenville This region was occupied by indigenous citizens s when explored by the French, who established a colony at Natchez, Mississippi, the home of the historic Natchez citizens , and later European-American colonists.
Greenville was established in 1824 by William W.
This plot now constitutes most of downtown Greenville.
Greenville became the governmental center of county in 1844.
The two previous county seats, New Mexico and Princeton, had both caved into the Mississippi River. The current town/city of Greenville is the third in the State to bear the name.
This Greenville was positioned three miles from the present site.
Most plantations were positioned directly on the Mississippi and other primary navigable tributaries.
Troops from a Union gunboat landed at Greenville.
When the war ended, veterans of Mississippi regiments found Greenville in a state of ruin.
The place chosen was the highest point on the Mississippi River between the suburbs of Vicksburg and Memphis.
She welcomed the idea of a new Greenville, donating territory for schools, churches and enhance buildings.
Greenville recovered prosperity, still based on cotton, despite its decline.
Nelson Street is a historic strip of blues clubs that drew crowds in the 1940s and 1950s to the expand club scene to hear Delta blues, big band, jump blues and jazz.
The Mississippi Blues Commission was established to memorialize this music in Mississippi history and culture; it has identified sites throughout the Delta as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail.
Greenville is positioned on the easterly bank of Lake Ferguson, an oxbow lake left from an old channel of the Mississippi River.
One floating casino is positioned on the lake near the downtown region known as the Lighthouse Point Casino, with a second just west of the town/city near the Greenville Bridge known as Harlow's Casino Resort.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 27.7 square miles (72 km2), of which 26.9 square miles (70 km2) is territory and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) (2.82%) is water.
Greenville As of the 2013 American Community Survey, there were 33,928 citizens residing in the city.
As of the census of 2000, there were 41,633 citizens , 18,784 homeholds, and 14,422 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 31.4% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Greenville Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Mississippi River.
Greenville Mid Delta Regional Airport, positioned in unincorporated Washington County, northeast of downtown Greenville, serves the town/city and the Mississippi Delta region.Commercial air service is provided by Boutique Air with daily nonstop flights to Nashville, TN and Dallas, TX.
Highway 61 and the Great River Road (Mississippi Highway 1) are the chief transportation arteries through the Greenville area.
Highway 82 is a primary part of the Mississippi Delta's transit network, as it joins to Interstate 55 and other primary four-lane highways.
Highway 82 bypass is being constructed to furnish a transit route at the southern end of the Delta, connecting at the new Mississippi River Bridge and ending near Leland.
The four-lane Greenville Bridge, a $206 million cable-stayed span crossing the Mississippi River into Arkansas, opened in 2010, replacing the two-lane Benjamin G.
Most of Greenville is served by the Greenville Public School District, while a small portion of the town/city lies in the Western Line School District.
The private schools, Washington School and Greenville Christian School, also serve the city; as well as the parochial schools, St.
The Greenville Higher Education Center offers non-credit improve courses and credit courses from Delta State University, Mississippi Delta Community College, and Mississippi Valley State University. The Greenville Bucks were a minor-league baseball team in the Cotton States League from 1922 to 1955.
The Greenville Bluesmen were an autonomous minor league experienced baseball team from 1996 2001 in Greenville.
The Mississippi Miracles, formerly the Mississippi Stingers, were an American Basketball Association charter from 2004 2006 in Greenville.
The Winterville Mounds Historic Site, with more than twelve earthwork mounds constructed by citizens of the Plaquemine Mississippian culture, is a survival north of the governmental center of county of the deep indigenous history along the Mississippi River.
The citizens in this region were influenced by the larger Mississippian culture, which assembled similar ceremonial sites throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries.
Jo Carr (1926 2007), born Bettye Jo Crisler in Greenville, became one of the first female Methodist ministers and church administrators in the South Plains of Texas.
Corey Holmes, all-star Canadian Football League player and Mayor of Metcalfe, Mississippi The younger Percy wrote a memoir, Lanterns on the Levee about the Mississippi Delta culture.
Clarke Reed, Mississippi state Republican chairman from 1966 to 1976, was instrumental in the nomination of Gerald R.
Ford, Jr., at the 1976 Republican National Convention, has resided in Greenville since 1950; he is a businessman and investor. Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, an black trombonist, born in Newellton, Louisiana, lived in Greenville early in his career.
"Introducing the Mississippi Blues Trail" (PDF).
The Mississippi Blues Commission.
Delta sites to be encompassed on new blues trail".
"Mississippi Blues Commission Blues Trail".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Greenville city, Mississippi." Greenville Christian School website Joseph Catholic School, Greenville, Mississippi".
"Mississippi Musicians".
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