Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Cleveland, MS

Cleveland is a city and one of two county seats of Bolivar County, Mississippi, the other seat being Rosedale.

Cleveland's population was 11,199 as of the 2020 census, with 4,406 households.

Named after President Grover Cleveland, the town began formation in 1869 as people moved inland from the Mississippi River, and it was earlier called Fontaine in 1884 and Coleman's Station before being officially named Sims in 1885 and then renamed Cleveland, with the village chartered on March 25, 1886.

By 1901 Cleveland was named the second county seat of Bolivar County and a new courthouse was erected, since Bolivar County is one of ten counties in Mississippi with two judicial districts.

Delta State University is located in Cleveland, chosen in the early 1920s as the site for a new normal college because of its central Delta location, the railroad, and donated land.

The Grammy Museum Mississippi, the first Grammy Museum outside of Los Angeles, opened in Cleveland in 2016 adjacent to the Delta State University campus.

Nearby Dockery Plantation carries a Mississippi Blues Trail marker declaring it the probable Birthplace of the Blues, and many early Delta bluesmen lived and worked around Dockery.

Cleveland is home to the Railroad Heritage Museum, housing the largest O gauge model layout in the southeast, thousands of railroad artifacts, and a 1941 Illinois Central caboose.

The Boo Ferriss Baseball Museum beside the Delta State baseball stadium honors the late Red Sox pitcher and Hall of Famer Boo Ferriss, and the Amzie Moore House, home of the late civil rights leader, is preserved as a museum and a stop on the Mississippi Freedom Trail.

In 1967, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark Jr. visited Cleveland on a tour of pockets of poverty in the Mississippi Delta, where they observed barefoot, underfed African-American children in tattered clothing.