Stoneville, Mississippi

Stoneville is an unincorporated community northwest of Leland, Mississippi. The USDA research facility that employed Paul Henson, Jim Henson's father, was located in Stoneville.USPS Press release The Henson family also resided in Stoneville, but, because the community had no schools of its own, Jim Henson attended elementary school in nearby Leland.Clark, Thomas D., telephone interview with Henson archivist Karen Falk, December 10, 2009.
On October 18, 2005, the United States Postal Service held a ceremony for the Jim Henson and the Muppets postage stamps that featured a . The ceremony took place at the Capps Entrepreneurial Center, the former site of the Stoneville USDA research facility. However, the name and ZIP code on the cancel are those of Leland.
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