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Tallahatchie County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi . As of 2010, the population was 15,378. Its county seats are Charleston and Sumner .
The county was founded on December 31, 1833. Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters". The county is one of ten in Mississippi with two county seats, Charleston and Sumner . Charleston was the first county seat, and Sumner was organized later in 1872. Charleston was founded in 1837, but its history antedates that. A settlement of five communities had grown up along the forks of Tillatoba Creek . In 1833 the land was opened for settlement. There were only Indian trails at the time. Most of the settlers entered the county over what was called Charley's Trace , an Indian trail that came across from the Mississippi river and entered the hills about where Leverett is now located. Here the trail merged with a trail from the south and passed near the present site of Charleston.