Greenville was established in 1838 through the joint efforts of the Mississippi State Colonization Society and the Colonization Society of Louisiana. It is seated at the mouth of the Sinoe River. The first 37 immigrants quickly turned to growing cotton. They were all manumitted slaves from Natchez, Mississippi.
Greenville began as the smallest and least funded settlement. It would remain relatively underdeveloped for decades. The surrounding area, first called Mississippi in Africa, would come to be known as Sinoe County.
Footnote: Cassell, 1970, p. 111; Shick, 1980, p. 33; Sullivan, 1978-79; Brown, p. 87-88, 95, n. 21; also d’Amico, 1977, pp. 121-122; Cassell, 1970, pp. 103, 106-108, 111; Shick, 1980, pp. 33, 65-66, 74-75, 166, n. 2. 3, 4, 5, and 6.
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