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Bolivar County, Mississippi

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17historic places

—earliest paper

1836formed

30,985pop. 2020

63cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Cleveland, Rosedale, Mound Bayou.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
AMPCO Manufacturing Plant	Rosedale	Building	2021
Adath Israel Temple	Cleveland	Building	2002
Alligator Mounds	Alligator	Site	1974
Cleveland Founders Historic District	Cleveland	District	2007
Donelson House	Duncan	Building	1976
Downtown Cleveland Historic District	Cleveland	District	1999
Downtown Cleveland Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Cleveland	District	2003
Grace Episcopal Church	Rosedale	Building	1980
Hollywood	Benoit	Building	1975
Montgomery, I. T., House NHL	Mound Bayou	Building	1976
Mound Bayou Bank	Mound Bayou	Building	1996
Mound Bayou Historic District	Mound Bayou	District	2013
Rosedale Historic District	Rosedale	District	2000
Shaw Consolidated School	Shaw	Building	2017
Sillers, Walter, Sr., House	Rosedale	Building	1997
Taborian Hospital	Mound Bayou	Building	1996
U.S. Post Office	Cleveland	Building	1981

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bolivar was formed in 1836 (1836-03-01) from Washington, small part of TALLAHATCHIE.

BOLIVAR created from WASHINGTON, Non-County Area 11 attached to HOLMES, and small part of TALLAHATCHIE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bolivar County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,356	10,471	18,652	35,427	57,669	67,574	63,004	54,464	45,965	40,633	30,985

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

63 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 63 of 63 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anns Tabernacle Cemetery	33.83427	-91.02094
Asia Cemetery	33.58205	-90.96843
Aycock Cemetery	33.76677	-90.87065
Beaver Cemetery	33.76868	-90.73677
Bellamy Chapel Cemetery	33.8737	-90.81736
Beulah Cemetery	33.79733	-90.9801
Booker Cemetery	34.0676	-90.80399
Brown Cemetery	33.78733	-90.7262
Burrus Cemetery	33.63927	-91.00899
Chrisman Cemetery	33.74789	-90.74621
Clark Cemetery	33.7501	-91.01427
Concordia Cemetery	33.96702	-90.93958
Dean Ridge Cemetery	33.54511	-91.01427
Delta Heights Memorial Gardens	33.74678	-90.6926
Dickerson Cemetery	33.59066	-90.99399
Egypt Ridge Cemetery	33.62677	-90.98204
El Bethel Cemetery	33.79205	-90.85148
Eutaw Cemetery	33.6501	-91.1501
Fairview Cemetery	33.6715	-90.7112
German Lane Cemetery	33.95205	-90.67648
Gunnison Cemetery	33.94154	-90.93495
Hall Cemetery	33.87594	-90.79759
Martin Cemetery	33.81344	-90.93621
Mexican Cemetery	33.61622	-90.85009
Miles Cemetery	33.61705	-91.05788
Mount Cazy Cemetery	33.57372	-90.99121
Mount Evergreen Cemetery	34.00205	-90.66176
Mount Harmon Cemetery	34.04594	-90.69398
Mount Olive Cemetery	33.73788	-91.01093
Mount Olive Cemetery	34.01482	-90.84038
Mount Zion Cemetery	33.6415	-90.86343
New Ashley Cemetery	34.11982	-90.79038
New Cleveland Cemetery	33.764	-90.73399
New Hope Cemetery	33.80677	-90.80509
New Hope Cemetery	33.83427	-90.98038
New Hope Cemetery	33.93677	-90.6762
Old Cleveland Cemetery	33.75817	-90.73204
Old Stone Cemetery	33.66927	-91.0226
Parthenia Cemetery	33.65261	-91.02121
Person Cemetery	33.99566	-90.93288
Peters Rock Cemetery	33.98149	-90.81259
Pickett Cemetery	33.97732	-90.88843
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.86455	-91.01732
Polk-Royal Cemetery	33.71899	-90.96815
Poplar Grove Cemetery	33.66733	-90.70592
Rosedale Cemetery	33.87732	-91.0351
Round Lake Cemetery	34.04649	-90.85232
Saint Joseph Cemetery	34.03233	-90.79537
Saint Peter Cemetery	33.78427	-90.83204
Sanders Cemetery	34.00677	-90.71259
Scotland Cemetery	33.80149	-90.97649
Scott Cemetery	33.91594	-90.92149
Sharewell Cemetery	33.83066	-90.89343
Shelby Cemetery	33.93379	-90.78009
Smith Cemetery	33.77844	-90.71898
Smith and Williams Cemetery	33.86872	-90.81843
Speckter Cemetery	33.64899	-91.04982
Strangers Rest Cemetery	33.61233	-90.76648
Turners Chapel Cemetery	33.97927	-90.83148
Union Temple Cemetery	34.01677	-90.71287
Waldon Cemetery	33.77816	-90.95232
Ward Chapel Cemetery	33.60066	-91.10816
Zion Cemetery	33.91372	-90.6937

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Concordia	33.97761	-90.95066
Prentiss	33.73344	-91.139

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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