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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 ]
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 ...
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 .
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]
The Mississippi Legislature passed the County Government Reorganization Act of 1988 in response, which transferred responsibilities to a system of centralized road administration. [ 5 ] According to 2023 U.S. Census Data, the average population of Mississippi's 82 counties is 35,850, with Hinds County as the most populous (214,870) and ...
Charlie Capps, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1972 to 2005 [12] Esther Golar, Illinois state representative, was born in Merigold. [13] Walter B. Parks, member of the Mississippi Legislature from 1912 to 1920 [14] Larry Speakes, acting press secretary in the Ronald Reagan administration, grew up in Merigold. [15]
Beulah is a town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 242. [3] Beulah is served by Mississippi Highway 1. Lake Beulah, an oxbow lake formerly connected to the Mississippi River, is west of the town. The Illinois Central Railroad had a station in Beulah, but the line is now abandoned.
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.