Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Greenville, MS

Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Mississippi, and with a population of 29,670 at the 2020 census it was the ninth most populous city in the state and the largest city by population in the Mississippi Delta region.

The 2020 census counted 11,874 households in Greenville.

The current city of Greenville is the third in Mississippi to bear the name: the first, near Natchez, was the Jefferson County seat from 1803 to 1825 before becoming defunct, and the second, founded in 1847 as the Washington County seat, was destroyed by Union troops during operations related to the siege of Vicksburg.

After the war, residents rebuilt at a new site three miles away, at the highest point on the Mississippi River between Vicksburg and Memphis, on land largely owned by Harriet Blanton Theobald, called the Mother of Greenville, with Major Richard O'Hea hired to lay out the new town.

Greenville was named by its founders for General Nathanael Greene, a friend of President George Washington, for whom Washington County was named, and the city was incorporated on June 24, 1870.

Greenville sits on the eastern bank of Lake Ferguson, an oxbow lake left from an old channel of the Mississippi River.

Nelson Street is a historic strip of blues clubs that drew crowds in the 1940s and 1950s to hear Delta blues, big band, jump blues and jazz, and it was compared to Beale Street in mid-twentieth-century Memphis.

Southern Whispers Restaurant on Nelson Street was the second site identified on the Mississippi Blues Trail, and it was a stop on the Chitlin' Circuit in the early days of the blues.

Greenville grew as the trading, business and cultural center for the large cotton plantations that surrounded it, and in the early twentieth century its elite families held considerable political influence in the state, including United States Senator Leroy Percy.

Greenville's population peaked at 45,226 in the 1990 census before falling to 34,400 in 2010 and 29,670 in 2020.