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Leflore County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,339. [1] The county seat is Greenwood. [2] The county is named for Choctaw leader Greenwood LeFlore, who signed a treaty to cede his people's land to the United States in exchange for land in Indian Territory.
Location of Leflore County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Leflore County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, [4] located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee. It was a center of cotton planter culture in the 19th century.
Leflore was an admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine, and had the house designed in French style. [14] When he sought a name for the house, "he decided on the name of the Château de Malmaison, ten miles west of Paris on the Seine." [14] LeFlore called his Carroll County home Malmaison. LeFlore occupied the Malmaison until his death in 1865.
Leflore County: 083: Greenwood: LF: 1871: Formed from Carroll and Sunflower Counties: Greenwood LeFlore (1800–1865), Chief of the Choctaw Nation and state senator and representative 26,378: 606.3 sq mi (1,570 km 2) Lincoln County: 085: Brookhaven: LI: 1870: Formed from Amite, Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence and Pike Counties: Abraham Lincoln (1809 ...
Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (GLCSD) is a school district serves Greenwood, Mississippi and the rest of Leflore County. It was established on July 1, 2019, [1] as a merger of the Greenwood Public School District and the Leflore County School District. The initial superintendent is Dr. Mary Brown. [2]
When Leflore County was formed in 1871 from portions of Carroll, Sunflower and Tallahatchie counties, the courthouse records and building became property of the new county. After Greenwood became the county seat of Leflore County, the former county buildings in McNutt were sold and became private property. The former courthouse was then used as ...
Money is an unincorporated community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta. [1] It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there.