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The Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms were started in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1936; and Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1939, respectively.The farms were founded and run by missionary evangelist and author Sherwood Eddy, and Reverend Sam H. Franklin, with the goal of helping southern sharecroppers out of their economic plight (caused in part by side effects of the New Deal's ...
The Cleveland, Mississippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bolivar County. It is located in the Mississippi Delta, or Yazoo Basin, of Mississippi. This area was first developed for cotton plantations. Large industrial-scale agricultural operations have reduced the number of farm workers needed, and the population is half of its ...
Rosedale is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 1,873 at the 2010 census, [3] down from 2,414 in 2000. Located in an agricultural area, the city had a stop on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, which carried many migrants north out of the area in the first half of the 20th century.
Mississippi State University (MSU) officially opens nation’s first Agricultural Autonomy Institute on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.
Bolivar is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Bolivar was once the county seat, and Bolivar Landing was its port on the Mississippi River. Now permanently cut off from the river, Bolivar is a quiescent residential hamlet, while Bolivar Landing, immediately north and across the ...
Delta State University is located on 332 acres (1.34 km 2) at 1003 W Sunflower Rd (Highway 8 West), in the northwest area of Cleveland, MS, 38733. [ 12 ] About 30 percent of students reside in on-campus housing. [ 13 ]
Unincorporated communities in Bolivar County, Mississippi (17 P) This page was last edited on 22 March 2013, at 08:51 (UTC). Text is ...