The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. It is the trade, processing, and shipping center of the Mississippi-Yazoo delta, a fertile region producing soybeans, oats, corn, timber, and especially cotton.
Livestock is raised.
Greenville is also an industrial city, and its many manufactures include saws, metal products, concrete items, and automobile parts. A Native American mounds historic site is nearby. It grew as a tobacco center, and while still an important tobacco-processing and marketing city, it also has diverse manufactures, among which are chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and automotive parts. East Carolina Univ. In 1795 he negotiated a treaty with the local Native Americans, who relinquished a large part of their Old Northwest territory.