Winston County, Mississippi

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The county is one of sixteen formed when chief Greenwood LeFlore ceded the lands in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which resulted in the removal of the Choctaw Nation from their ancestral lands to Oklahoma.

The county is named for Louis Winston (1784–1824), a colonel in the militia, a prominent lawyer, and a judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Adjacent Counties

• Okibbeha County
• Noxubee County
• Kemper County
• Neshoba County
• Choctaw County
• Attala County

Cities, Towns & Communities

• Highpoint
• Louisville (County Seat)
• Noxapater
• Perkinsville
• Randalls Bluff
• Singleton
• Vernon

Links

Wikipedia

MSGHN

MSGW

Genealogy Trails

Nat'l Reg. of Hist. Places

Tombigbee National Forest (part)