Stringtown, Mississippi
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Stringtown is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in
Bolivar County, Mississippi Bolivar County ( ), officially the County of Bolivar, 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. Its county seats are Rosedale and Cleveland. The county is name ...
, United States. Stringtown is approximately south/southeast of Benoit and approximately east of
Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...
. A post office operated under the name Stringtown from 1906 to 1965 and under the name Stringtown Rural Station from 1965 to 1974.


Notable people

* L.V. Banks,
Chicago blues Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed in an urban style. It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the fi ...
guitarist and singer * Eddie Shaw, Chicago blues tenor saxophonist


References

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