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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
The county is named in honor of Simón Bolívar, early 19th-century leader of the liberation of several South American colonies from Spain.
It is located in the Mississippi Delta, or Yazoo Basin, of Mississippi, that was first Choctaw land. This area was first developed for cotton plantations. In 1840, the county was made up of 60% slaves. By 1860, it was 87% slaves.
Large industrial-scale agricultural operations have reduced the number of farm workers needed, and the population is half of its peak in 1930. Today soybeans are also a commodity crop.
The county had 14 documented lynchings in the period from 1877 to 1950.
Adjacent Counties
Cities, Towns & Communities
Alligator | Australia | Benoit | Beulah | Bolivar | Boyle | Choctaw | Cleveland (County Seat) | Concordia | Dahomy | Deeson | Duncan | Eutaw | Gunnison | Huntington | Hushpuckena | Lamont | Litton | Malvina | Merigold | Mound Bayou | Mound Landing | O'Reilly | Pace | Perthshire | Prentiss | Renova | Riverton | Rosedale (County Seat) | Round Lake | Scott | Shaw (part) | Shelby | Skene | Stringtown | Symonds | Victoria | Waxhaw | Winstonville
Links
Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge
Slaveholder List 1860, Surame Matches 1870 (Census Records)
National Register of Historic Places
