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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, th...
History=From early on, Greenville’s Jewish population made significant contributions to the town’s progress. Former Greenville mayor Pat Dunne observed, “From cobbler to banker, merchant to plantation owner, the Jewish people helped to build a magnificent city here.” For much of the 20th century, Greenville had the largest Jewish population in Mississippi, with the most concentrated population ...