Malmaison

Greenwood LeFlore was born in 1800 to a Choctaw mother, Nancy Cravat, and a Canadian fur trader. In 1825 he and David Folsom challenged chiefs who ceded land to settle personal debts. In 1829 he told his people armed resistance to removal was hopeless, and in 1830 he was among the handful of leaders who concluded the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. Nearly fifteen thousand of some eighteen thousand Choctaw were then removed west. LeFlore stayed, after death threats, and grew rich as a cotton planter, beginning with thirty-two enslaved people on 250 acres.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carroll County Courthouse — 0.8 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 11 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.
• Bryant's Grocery — 19 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.
• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 21 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.

More markers nearby

• Carrollton — steps away
• Narmour and Smith — 0.7 mi
• Ensign William Devotie Billingsley — 10 mi
• Pops Staples — 11 mi