GREENWOOD, a city of western Mississippi, U.S.A., on the Yazoo river, 115m. S. by W. of Memphis; the county seat of Leflore county. It is served by the Columbus and Greenville and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railways. The population was 7,793 in 192o (52% negroes) and was, in 1930, 11,123 by the Fed eral census. It ships great quantities of cotton (of which bales were ginned in the county in 1926), and has saw mills, furniture factories, wood-working plants and canneries, besides cotton gins and compresses and cotton-seed oil mills. Greenwood was incorporated in 1844. It has a commission form of government. The city and the county were named after the Choctaw chief, Greenwood Leflore, whose mansion "Malmaison" (built in 1854) stands a few miles from the city, equipped and furnished practically as he left it.