Indianola, Mississippi

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• Indianola sweeps Johnston Duals
  

  Indianola High School had five wrestlers win five matches each on the way to sweeping the Johnston Duals in Johnston on Jan.

• Willie Morris series slated for Jan. 6
  

  On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, writer Steve Yarbrough will present the third program in a series 'Willie Morris: the Man and His Words.' The event will be from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Willie Morris Library, 4912 Old ...

• Blues & running shoes
  

  The second annual Mississippi Blues Marathon & Half-Marathon makes tracks in Jackson Saturday, with a heaping helping of its signature music to boot.

• Women in agriculture seminar Feb. 24-26
  

  The Capps Center in Indianola, Miss., will host the Mississippi Women in Agriculture seminar Feb.

• Author to lecture at library
  

  Author to lecture at library By Justin Fritscher justin.fritscher@rankinledger.com A creative writing professor and author will lecture Tuesday at the Willie Morris Library in Jackson.

• King museum, Freeman wreck top MS celebrity news
  

  Blues icon B.B. King usually lets his music do his talking but even that failed him during a tour of a new multimillion dollar museum dedicated to his career.

• The Senator & the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland & Fannie Lou Hamer
  

  Chris Myers Asch profiles the lives of former Democratic Senator, James O. Eastland and sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer against the backdrop of the political and social upheaval that took place in Sunflower ...

• the Thrill's not Gone for B.B. King
  

  B.B.King's fingers were lightning fast, too smooth to be described as machinelike.

• Christie Projectors Help Bowen Technovation Pay Homage To Blues Legend At The New B.B. King Musem
  

  Bowen Technovation selected Christie projectors to bring the life and story of blues legend, B.B. King to the B.B. King Museum and the Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi.

• About the Blues
  

  About the Blues By Liz Lottmann I felt like I was a member of Blues Traveler in October, I was traveling around chasing the blues so much.

• Gleaning for good
  

  At the sweet corn farm coop that A.B. Nichols runs with her husband in Indianola, perfectly good corn at times runs the risk of going to waste.

• Top Performers: State Edition
  

  LOGAN AYERS, Tupelo Christian: Had 5 receptions for 185 yards and 2 TDs in a 69-6 win over Immanuel Christian.

• Inmate found guilty of killing Hargon
  

  INDIANOLA - An inmate accused in the stabbing death of 46-year-old convicted killer Earnest Lee Hargon has been found guilty of murder.

• MOVIES, TV, CELEBS, BOOKS, ART, MUSIC, THEATER
  

  Standing in the rain wasn't going to dampen Donovan's spirits. He had come to a field in this Catskills arts colony to be photographed, looking every bit the '60s troubadour of "Mellow Yellow" fame with a ...

• Museum pays tribute to the King of blues
  

  A Hammond organ and numerous backstage passes from B.B. King concerts fill a display during the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center Sept.

• Museum is a tribute to a King
  

  Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill ...

• Museum pays tribute to B.B. King
  

  INDIANOLA, Miss. - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an ...

• Destinations
  

  Mississippi: All hail the king A new museum honoring B.B. King has opened in Indianola, Miss.

• Civil rights reunion brings memories of struggle
  

  Veterans of the historic Mississippi "Freedom Summers" of the early 1960s gathered for their fourth Sunflower County Civil Rights Reunion in this small Delta town September 12.

City Description

Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County. Indianola was originally named Indian Bayou, for the stream on which it was built. Between 1882 and 1884, the town's name was changed from Indian Bayou to Eureka, then to Belengate, and finally Indianola. As with most Mississippi Delta towns, Indianola was built on the site of ancient Indian camps. A story has been circulated about the town being named after an Indian princess named "Ola." A search by this author in the papers of Mr. W. R. French, a local historian, in the early 1970s revealed that many other Indianolas in the United States claimed the same origin for their name. The story about the origin of the town coming from an Indian princess named "Ola" is folk etymology. The last Choctaw Indians had been forcibly removed from the area through the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820, and the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. Indianola was not incorporated under its current name until 1886. (Brieger, Hometown Mississippi 1980). Mr. French speculated that name was selected by the Board of Supervisors in memory of

City Contained By:

• Sunflower County
• Mississippi

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 22.5328965599 km squared

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