Grenada

Grenada, city, seat (1870) of Grenada county, north-central Mississippi, U.S. It lies along the Yalobusha River at the eastern edge of the Mississippi River valley, 111 miles (179 km) north of Jackson. It was formed in 1836 by the merger of Tullahoma and Pittsburg, two villages established by rival speculators in 1833. During the American Civil War, General John C. Pemberton of the Confederacy established his headquarters in Grenada while resisting General Ulysses S. Grant’s...