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    Leland is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. It is located within the Mississippi Delta, on the banks of Deer Creek. The population...
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    Leland Senior High School (LHS) is a public high school in Leland, Mississippi, United States. It educates approximately 336 students in grades nine through...
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  • census-designated place Leland, Mississippi, a city Leland, North Carolina, a town Leland, Idaho Leland, Oregon, an unincorporated community Leland, Utah, an unincorporated...
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    Jim Henson (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in both Leland, Mississippi, and University Park, Maryland, Henson began developing...
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    Thelma Houston (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Houston was born in Leland, Mississippi. Her mother was a cotton picker. She and her three sisters grew up...
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    Leland Historic District in Leland, Mississippi is a 165-acre (67 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
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  • Kermit the Frog (category Fictional characters from Mississippi)
    Kermit was named after Henson's childhood friend Kermit Scott, from Leland, Mississippi. However, Karen Falk, head archivist and board of directors member...
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    Confederate States During the Civil War from Yazoo County, Mississippi. Leland, Mississippi: Mrs. C. Q. Hollowell. March 1, 1960 [1st pub. Yazoo Camp,...
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  • Ruth Thompson Dickins (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    Dickins, born Ruth Idella Thompson on June 9, 1906, was raised in Leland, Mississippi. Her father, Joseph Wood Thompson, was a pioneer planter and cotton...
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  • California) Leland High School (Leland, Illinois) Leland High School (Leland, Mississippi) Lealands High School Leland School District This disambiguation...
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  • Johnie Cooks (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Johnie Cooks was born on November 23, 1958, in Leland, Mississippi. Cooks was one of nine children...
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    Wadada Leo Smith (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012. Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi, United States. He started out playing drums, mellophone, and French...
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    in musical pursuits. Both were born with albinism. Their father, Leland, Mississippi native John Dawson Winter Jr. (1909–2001), was also a musician who...
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    building in Leland, Mississippi, USA. The building is located at 204 North Broad Street in Leland, a small town in Washington County, Mississippi, in the...
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    to Little Rock, Arkansas, with his family, as a boy. He lived in Leland, Mississippi, until his death and was married later in life. Lee joined the Army...
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  • Leland Historic District may refer to: Leland Historic District (Leland, Michigan) Leland Historic District (Leland, Mississippi) This disambiguation page...
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  • Leland Speed (October 20, 1899 – August 8, 1971) was an investment banker and former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi and the husband of Katherine Ettl. Speed...
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  • rendition of the song be played. On September 24, 2011, the town of Leland, Mississippi, changed the name of a local bridge to "The Rainbow Connection" in...
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  • Bob Dylan album The Highway 61 Blues Festival occurs annually in Leland, Mississippi Highway 61 is a 1991 film set on U.S. Route 61 U.S. Route 61 is the...
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  • Americans (Durant, Oklahoma) Joe Frank and the Knights (Leland, Mississippi) The Gants (Greenwood, Mississippi) Los Gatos Salvajes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) The...
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    James Thomas (blues musician) (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Leland, Mississippi. Thomas died at the age of 66 in Greenville, Mississippi, from emphysema and a stroke...
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    will commence at the recently opened Mississippi River Bridge and terminate at the current U.S. 82 near Leland, creating a half-loop freeway around South...
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  • "Dallas" (Johnny Winter) – 2:45 "Mean Mistreater" (James Gordon) – 3:53 "Leland Mississippi Blues" (Johnny Winter) – 3:19 "Good Morning Little School Girl" –...
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    Eddie Taylor (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    Benoit, Mississippi, as a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing at venues around Leland, Mississippi, where he...
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  • Kermit Scott (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    famous creations. Scott was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, on October 18, 1936. He grew up in Leland, Mississippi, which was also the hometown of Jim Henson...
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  • E. L. Boteler (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    civil rights were restored. Boteler died at his home in Leland, Mississippi. Genocide in Mississippi-Biographical Sketch of Edgar Lee Boteler, pg. 9 "Boteler...
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  • John Lawrence Hebron Jr. (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    University of Mississippi School of Law in 1887, receiving a L.L.B. degree. In July 1887, Hebron began practicing law in Leland, Mississippi. Hebron was...
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    The highways travel concurrently to east of Leland, Mississippi. Mississippi US 61 / US 82 east of Leland. US 61/US 278 travels concurrently to Clarksdale...
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    Douglas A. Blackmon (category People from Leland, Mississippi)
    Blackmon was born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and grew up in Leland, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. He has said that the small town of 6,000 was evenly...
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    Light in August (category Novels set in Mississippi)
    unborn child. He has been fired from his job in Doane's Mill and moved to Mississippi, promising to send word to her when he has a new job. Not hearing from...
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