Monroe County - Greenwood Springs, MS
Posted by: YoSam.
N 33° 53.223 W 088° 18.497
16S E 379019 N 3750402
Hstoric marker along side the US Hwy coming from Alabama
Waymark Code: WMPYHW
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 11/11/2015
Views: 7
County of marker: Monroe County
Location of marker: US 278, Greenwood Springs
Marker erected by: Monroe County Bicentennial Committee
Date marker erected: 1976
NOTE: Reported Missing
Marker text:
MONROE COUNTY
CREATED 1815
To protect the first white settlers on tributaries of the Buttahatachie River, Gov. David Holmes created Monroe County June ~ 20, 1815 from land between the Tombigbee nd Black Warrior Rivers.