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Louis Leflore first traded with the Choctaw Indians at a bluff now part of Jackson, Mississippi. About 1812 he established his stand 900 feet to the northeast on the Natchez Trace. Because of the storekeeper's nationality, the area was often called French Camp, a name retained by the present village. Leflore married a Choctaw woman, and their famous son, who changed his name to Greenwood Leflore, became a Choctaw chief and a Mississippi State Senator. The city of Greenwood and Leflore County were named for him.
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