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Bolivar was once the county seat, and Bolivar Landing was its port on the Mississippi River. Now permanently cut off from the river, Bolivar is a quiescent residential hamlet, while Bolivar Landing, immediately north and across the immense Mississippi Levee, is a cottage community on Lake Whittington .
Bolivar County (/ ˈ b ɒ l ɪ v ər / BOL-i-vər) is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census , the population was 30,985. [ 1 ] Its county seats are Rosedale and Cleveland . [ 2 ]
Bolivar is a ghost town located in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. Bolivar appeared on a map of Mississippi from 1831, and was located on a road midway between Hamilton and Cotton Gin Port. [2] The New Hope Primitive Baptist Church was located there, and there may have also been one store. [3]
Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,533 at the 2010 census, [3] down from 2,102 in 2000. It was founded as an independent black community in 1887 by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery. [4] [5] Mound Bayou Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [6]
Location of Bolivar County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bolivar County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Rosedale is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 1,873 at the 2010 census, [3] down from 2,414 in 2000. Located in an agricultural area, the city had a stop on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, which carried many migrants north out of the area in the first half of the 20th century.
Voters in the Bolivar school district rejected a partnership with Ozarks Technical Community College that would have increased residents' property tax levy in exchange for significantly lower tuition.
Prentiss (also known as "Wellington", "Indian Point Landing", and "Indian Town") is a ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving river port and county seat, Prentiss was destroyed during the Civil War, and then washed over by the Mississippi River during the 1870s. There is also a Prentiss, Ms in the Southwest.