Greenville (Mississippi)
Washington County
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Greenville is the county seat of Washington County in the western part of the U.S. state of Mississippi on the Mississippi River. In 2000, the city had 41,633 inhabitants, while a decrease was estimated at 35,764 for 2007. Greenville is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi.
Greenville is named after Nathanael Greene, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
Greenville is located on the eastern shore of Lake Ferguson, an oxbow lake of the Mississippi. Two floating casinos are located on the lake near the city center, a third further west, near the Greenville Bridge. The Chicago Mill and Lumber Co. operated a sawmill on the lake, which specialized in the production of vessels made of hardwood. North of the city is located to the Winterville Mounds Historic Site is a museum about the early history of the region. The mounds were built by a Native American tribe that populated the area from the Choctaw and Chickasaw.
Geography
Greenville is located at 33 ° 23'55 " north latitude and 91 ° 2'54 " west longitude.
The area of the city covers 71.6 km ², of which 2.0 km ² water surface.
Demography
In the census of 2000 a population of 41,633 was determined. These distributed to 14,784 households in 10,422 families. The population density was 598/km ². There were 16,251 buildings, which corresponds to a density of 233.4 / km ².
The population was in 2000 from 28.92 % White, 69.60 % African American, 0.07 % Native Americans, 0.71 % Asian, and 0.21 % other. 0.49 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 0.71 % of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.
31.4 % were under 18, 10.1 % from 18 to 24, 26.3% 25-44, 20.5% from 45 to 64 and 11.8 % 65 and older. The average age was 32 years. For every 100 females were statistically 85.4 men in the over 18 -year-olds 77.5.
The median income of $ 25,928, the average family income at $ 30,788. Men's income averaged $ 29,801, and for women about $ 20,707. The per capita income was $ 13,992. Around 25.7 % of families and 29.6 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.
Transportation
Airport
The Mid Delta Regional Airport which is located northeast of Greenville, the region around Greenville serves as a connection to the air transport network. The regional airline Northwest Airlink operates the connection to the hub of Northwest Airlines in Memphis.
Highways U.S. Highway 82, U.S. Highway 61 and the Great River Road (Mississippi Highway 1 ) are the main arteries of traffic in the area around the city of Greenville. U.S. Highway 82 is the main traffic route in the road network of the Mississippi Delta, he is connected to Interstate 55 and other multi-lane highways. With completion of the new four-lane Greenville Bridge ( end of 2009) across the Mississippi River to Lake Village (Arkansas ), the longest bridge of its kind went into operation in the North American interior. Solves the over 200 million dollar bridge from the previous, much narrower Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge.
Famous people
- Jim Henson (1936-1990) - puppeteer, director and television producer, designed the Muppet Show
- Mary Wilson (born 1944) - singer of the Supremes,
- Shelby Foote (1916-2005) - novelist and historian,
- Frank White (b. 1950) - baseball player,
- Sam Chu Lin (1939-2006) - Chinese-American journalist,
- Robert T. Henry (1923-1944) - soldier in the Second World War and support of the Medal of Honor
- William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) - writer
- Walker Percy (1916-1990) - writer
- Holt Collier (1848-1936) - African American cowboy and bear hunters - hunting companion of President Theodore Roosevelt
- Jo Carr (1926-2007) - Methodist pastor and church leader in Texas, was previously a professor of English at Texas Tech University in Lubbock ( Texas)
- Leon " Pee Wee " Whittaker (1906-1993) - trombonist lived at the beginning of his career in Greenville
- Jerry Rice (born 1962) - football player with the San Francisco 49ers - grew up in Greenville
- George Scott (born 1944) - MLB professional for the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees.
Twin Cities
- Kronach, Germany Germany
- Greenville, Liberia Liberia
Nelson Street
A station on the amounts reported by the Mississippi Blues Commission Mississippi Blues Trail is the Nelson Street in Greenville. The Second Whispers Restaurant in Nelson Street was part of the Chitlin 'Circuit in the early days of blues and reminds us of the importance of this place in the history of the blues in Mississippi.
The Nelson Street was in the 1940s and 1950s, a historically significant stretch of road with a vibrant scene of clubs and music venues, where Delta blues, big band jump blues and jazz could be heard. Record companies were here constantly looking for new talent. It was similar to the Beale Street in Memphis in the 1900s.