Greenwood

Settlement around the area that is now Greenwood, Mississippi began as early as 1832. By 1844 the city, named for Choctaw Chief Greenwood LeFlore, was incorporated and with heavy river trade flourished. With the coming of the Civil War the city languished, but construction of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads proved its resurrection and once more Greenwood, Mississippi was "connected" to the outside world. The rest is history. Jim Henson of Muppet fame was born here, its one of only nine cotton spot markets in the country, Cottonlandia Museum tells its story, and at Florewood River Plantation State Park, visitors can catch a glimpse of life on a plantation prior to the 1850s.

Top Attractions

• Historic Cotton Row
• Cottonlandia Museum
• Robert Johnson Tombstone
• Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery
• Fort Pemberton Civil War Site

Top Events

• Roy Martin Delta Band Festival - December
• 4TH of July Festival - July
• River to the Rails - May
• 300 Oaks Road Race - September

Top Accommodations

• Bridgewater Inn - B&B
• The Rivers' Inn - B&B
• The Alluvian
• Best Western
• Ramada Inn
  
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