Greenwood.1 City (2020
pop. 9,516 ), seat of Sebastian co., NW Ark.; founded 1851. It was the first
county seat for the area, when its original courthouse was built. By the
time of the Civil War, it had developed as a business center, with small
local industries. An F4 tornado created an estimated $1.5 million damage to
the town in 1968, with 14 people killed and over 100 injured. 2
City (2020 pop. 63,830), Johnson co., central Ind.; settled 1822, inc. as a
city 1960. A residential suburb of Indianapolis, Greenwood is in a retail
shopping area. Manufactures include motor vehicle parts and metal products.
3 City (2020 pop. 14,490), seat of Leflore co., W central
Miss., on the Yazoo River in the Mississippi Delta; inc. 1844. It is a
retail and trade center for a productive farm region, with a major cotton
market. Musical instruments, apparel, motor vehicle parts, agricultural
equipment, and kitchen stoves are manufactured. The area's original
inhabitants were the Choctaws; the city and county derive their names from a
Choctaw chief and cotton planter, Greenwood Leflore. After the area was
ceded to the United States in 1830 by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek,
settlers poured in, carving vast cotton plantations out of the delta
swamplands. The city has a cotton museum, and several Native American burial
grounds are nearby. 4 City (2020 pop. 69,351), seat of
Greenwood co., W S.C.; settled 1824, inc. as a city 1927. It is a rail
center, with textile, wood-product, and meatpacking industries. A trading
post was established there in 1751, and a Revolutionary War battle was
fought at nearby Old Star Fort in 1775. The first railroad came in 1852; by
1911 five lines were operating through the city. Lander Univ. and Piedmont
Technical College are in the city. Greenwood State Park is nearby.
5 City (2020 pop. 32,219), Midland co., Tex. It developed
as a farming community in the 1890s. It is now a residential suburb of
Midland, localed 13 miles away.
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