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    The Sunflower River (also known as the Big Sunflower River) is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is...
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  • Deer Creek Little Sunflower River Sunflower River (or Big Sunflower River) Bogue Phalia Quiver River Hushpuckena River Tallahatchie River Cassidy Bayou Tillatoba...
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    village was located where the north end of Mound Bayou empties into the Sunflower River. In 1882 the county seat was moved to Eureka, which was later renamed...
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  • The Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival is an annual music festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It is held the second weekend in August, lasting three...
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    Sunflower butter, also known as sunflower seed butter, is a food paste made from sunflower seeds. Sunflower butter is commonly used as a substitute for...
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    Mississippi River. However, when these structures are closed, rainfall in the Steele Bayou, Deer Creek, Little Sunflower River, and Sunflower River watersheds...
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    Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. It is located along the Sunflower River. Clarksdale is named after John Clark, a settler who founded the city...
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    Turner returned to his hometown Clarksdale to headline the 10th Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival. Turner credited Joe Louis Walker with encouraging...
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    Sunflower is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The population was 1,159 at the 2010 census. As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 964...
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    Dockery Plantation (category Houses in Sunflower County, Mississippi)
    (104 km2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded...
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    Gloucester show, the Sensational Space Shifters were scheduled for the free Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary in Clarksdale, Mississippi...
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    tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. It is cultivated...
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  • Hushpuckena River is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is a tributary of the Sunflower River, splitting off just north of Mississippi Highway...
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    Issaquena County, Mississippi (category Mississippi counties on the Mississippi River)
    including Steele Bayou, Little Sunflower River, Big Sunflower River, Deer Creek, Black Bayou, Little Black Bayou, and the Yazoo River. The shallow waterways proved...
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  • "Sharbrough's Landing" to river boat pilots the community was established by the Sharbrough family in 1877. Located on the Sunflower River, early delta cotton...
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    America's Most Endangered Rivers is a list of threatened rivers in the United States compiled by the nonprofit group American Rivers. First published in 1984...
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    Quiver River flows south, passing through Tallahatchie County, Leflore County, and Sunflower County, before flowing into the Sunflower River northwest...
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    Doddsville, Mississippi (category Towns in Sunflower County, Mississippi)
    bank of the Sunflower River. When river levels rose in the spring, boats from Vicksburg would follow the Yazoo River and then Sunflower River as far as...
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    Helianthus giganteus, the giant sunflower or tall sunflower, is a species of Helianthus native to the eastern United States and eastern and central Canada...
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  • radio-telegraphy hobbyist, Wailes frequently monitored railroad and Mississippi River riverboat radio Morse code signals with his shortwave radio set. In the...
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    Mississippi 18,756 445 sq mi (1,153 km2) Sunflower County 133 Indianola SU 1844 Formed from Bolivar County Sunflower River 24,468 694 sq mi (1,797 km2) Tallahatchie...
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    plant domestication in human history. Evidence of early cultivation of sunflower, a goosefoot, a marsh elder and an indigenous squash dates to the 4th...
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    Mississippi Delta in the 1930s. On one occasion he played on one side of the Sunflower River while Johnson played on the other, with the people of Clarksdale, Mississippi...
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    an old river channel, is near the northwest corner of the town. The lake leads northwest and connects via Pawson Bayou to the Big Sunflower River, a tributary...
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    Arcola. MS 438 continues eastward and ends at Sunflower River Road and Kinlock Road on the Washington–Sunflower county line near Kinlock. The route was constructed...
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    original 1964 release. All songs written or arranged by John Fahey. "Sunflower River Blues" – 2:33 "When the Springtime Comes Again" – 3:50 "Stomping Tonight...
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    Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-33983-6. – Total pages: 386 Stevenson, Bryan (November...
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  • com. Retrieved July 15, 2019. "Welcome to the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival". Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival. "Telluride Blues & Brews...
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    County, Mississippi, and/or near McNutt, Mississippi, in what was then Sunflower County and is now LaFlore County, Mississippi. During the American Civil...
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    Mississippi Delta (category Mississippi River)
    Carroll, Issaquena, Western Panola, Quitman, Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Sunflower, Sharkey, Tate, Tunica, Tallahatchie, Western Holmes, Western Yazoo, Western...
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