Group Tour Escort Manual - Mississippi

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l The Winterville Indian Mounds are considered to be among America’s pre-
Columbian archeological treasures. The Native Americans that built these massive
eastern structures disappeared without a trace some 400 years ago.
l Muppet creator Jim Henson was born in Greenville and was reared in
nearby Stoneville. Henson said that “Leland, Mississippi was the birthplace
of Kermit the Frog.” Henson spent boyhood days playing along the banks of
Deer Creek with a childhood friend, Kermit Scott. Those days were the
inspiration for Kermit, his most famous Muppet.
l Mississippi’s oldest and largest state park, LeRoy Percy State
Park is located just west of Hollandale and is characterized by
cypress trees and ancient oaks dripping with Spanish moss.
It is Mississippi’s only state park featuring a wildlife preserve.
l The Mississippi Welcome Center in Greenville, the Great River
Road Queen, was the Mississippi pavilion in the 1984 World’s Fair
in New Orleans. It resembles the Victorian River boats that once
ruled the Mighty Mississippi.
l Washington County is the home of the largest United States
Department of Agriculture Research Station east of the
Mississippi River.
l Washington County has a combined total of 10 museum sites.
For more information about Greenville-Washington County, visit www.visitgreenville.org
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