Point Leflore

Greenwood LeFlore was born in 1800 to a Choctaw mother, Nancy Cravat, and a Canadian fur trader. He rose in the 1820s to lead the western towns, backed mission schools, and grew rich on a 250-acre cotton plantation worked by thirty-two enslaved people. After Andrew Jackson's election he told the Choctaw that armed resistance was hopeless and signed the 1830 removal treaty, then stayed behind after death threats. He sat briefly in the state legislature, sided with the Union in 1861, and died in 1865 wrapped in an American flag. His house, Malmaison, burned in 1942.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bryant's Grocery — 9.2 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.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 15 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.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 25 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 26 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.

More markers nearby

• Greenwood — steps away
• Furry Lewis — 0.5 mi
• Elks Lodge — 0.8 mi
• Hubert Sumlin — 1.2 mi