Golf in Greenville

Greenville is the Washington County seat and the traditional capital of the Mississippi Delta, a city that produced an extraordinary literary and intellectual tradition including Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, David Cohn, and others. The Delta's agricultural prosperity once made Greenville one of the wealthier small cities in the South, and the legacy of that prosperity is visible in the city's architecture and cultural institutions. The Festival of Books and other cultural programming reflect a commitment to Greenville's intellectual tradition in a city navigating the Delta's ongoing economic challenges. The Greenville community's commitment to its literary and cultural heritage sustains a distinct identity even as the Delta's agricultural economy has declined from the cotton prosperity that funded the city's early institutions.