About Leland, Mississippi

Leland is a city of 3,988 people in Washington County, set along Deer Creek in the Mississippi Delta. Malinda Breeland, Mary Neely and Samuel and Susan Jones settled the land in 1834. The families who came after them lived on the creek bank at Three Oaks Plantation and built a drawbridge to reach their neighbors at Stoneville. The land later went to Judge James Rucks and William Yerger, passed to the Bank of Kentucky after the Civil War, and was finally bought by Captain James A. V. Feltus, who paid $12,000 for 900 acres.

Feltus gave a 100-foot right-of-way across his land, and Captain John C. Calhoun of the Leland Plantation campaigned to make the place a railroad terminus. Trains finally arrived in 1885 on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas line. Feltus signed deeds laying out First through Eighth Streets, bounded by Main and Broad, and J. C. Greenley opened the first store. Residents mailed a town charter to Jackson in January 1886, and it was approved on February 20, 1886. Leland had 762 people in 1900 and an estimated 2,000 by 1906.

  • Named for Leland McCutcheonCaptain Feltus named the new town for Miss Leland McCutcheon. The old accounts link her to two men named Armstrong: Ruben, a friend of Feltus, and C. E., a young railroad auditor who traveled the line. Both men are said to have asked Feltus to give the town her name.
  • A cotton company like no otherBy the early 1900s Leland was an important cotton shipping point. The Bank of Leland opened in 1899 with $15,000 in capital, and the Delta Bank followed in 1903 with $50,000. A cottonseed oil mill handled 100 tons of seed a day, and the city ran its own power plant and water system. In 1903 merchants formed the Leland Cotton Co. to sell cotton, and it was said to be the only company of its kind anywhere.
  • Kermit's hometownJim Henson was born in nearby Greenville but grew up in Leland, and it was here that he created Kermit the Frog. The town honors him with the Jim Henson Exhibit, a museum on the banks of Deer Creek.
  • Five Blues Trail markersLeland has five Mississippi Blues Trail markers. James "Son" Thomas, a blues musician, sculptor and gravedigger, lived for years near the railroad tracks and is buried here under a stone given by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, which John Fogerty supported every year. Johnny Winter spent part of his boyhood in Leland, where his father, a former mayor, and his grandfather ran the cotton firm J.D. Winter & Sons, and one marker is his.

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Names on the Leland map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • School Park

Streets and roads100

  • Highway 82 West
  • Virden Street
  • North Deer Creek Drive West
  • North Main Street
  • North Deer Creek Drive East
  • East Third Street
  • West Second Street
  • Jackson Street
  • South Deer Creek Drive West
  • North Broad Street
  • Tyler Street
  • Oak Street
  • Baker Boulevard
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Mathis Street
  • County Line Road
  • East Street
  • Lakeview Drive
  • Old Highway 61
  • Fifth Street
  • Sixth Street
  • Elizabeth Road
  • Seventh Street
  • South Deer Creek Drive East
  • Gerald Street
  • Palm Street
  • Racquet Club Road
  • South Broad Street
  • Lake Road
  • South Main Street
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  • Old Tribbett Road
  • Edwards Avenue
  • Huddleston Street
  • Cypress Street
  • Feltus Boulevard
  • California Avenue
  • East Second Street
  • Stallings Street
  • Sycamore Street
  • Martin Luther King Junior Drive
  • Hood Street
  • McGee Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Hill Street
  • Long Street
  • Church Street
  • Hutson Street
  • Robbs Street
  • Roadway Street
  • Oquinn Street
  • Cotton Drive
  • Fitzhugh Street
  • Lilac Drive
  • Central Avenue
  • Witte Street
  • West Third Street
  • School Park Drive
  • Garrison Street
  • Plantation Drive
  • Ruby Washington Street
  • Mimosa Drive
  • Tucker Street
  • Milam Street
  • Peninsula Drive
  • Eleventh Street
  • Lewis Street
  • Peyton Drive
  • Elm Street
  • Woodrow Street
  • Katzenmeir Street
  • Cedar Street
  • Lysbeth Drive
  • Tenth Street
  • Ninth Street
  • Redbud Drive
  • West Street
  • Yeager Street
  • Burdette Street
  • Miller Street
  • Mark Drive
  • Lillo Road
  • Pecan Street
  • Hay Street
  • Breisch Street
  • Willeroy Street
  • Turner Street
  • Weston Avenue
  • Old Leland Road
  • Leland Landfill Road
  • North Deer Creek Drive
  • Cefalu Street
  • Linden Street
  • Pippin Street
  • Old Highway 61 North
  • Wilson Street
  • Stone Avenue
  • Carraway Street
  • Amy Drive
  • Dean Street
  • Dogwood Street

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