Brazil is an unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Brazil is on Mississippi Highway 321 approximately north of Webb and south of Lambert.
The community is also known as Lay and Stover. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Accessed 5 July 2023.
Transportation Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, which operates between New Orleans and Chicago, passes through the town on CN tracks, but makes no stop. The nearest station is located in Marks, to the north.
Education Brazil is in the West Tallahatchie School District. R. H. Bearden School and West Tallahatchie High School are the local schools.
It was previously a part of the Brazil Consolidated School District. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Accessed 5 July 2023. Brazil formerly had its own school, with the final building built for $50,000 in 1936. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Accessed 5 July 2023. In the 1940s, the district made plans to build an expansion. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. The previous Brazil school was destroyed by a fire. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Due to underenrollment, as the school had 40 students registered in 1965, it was closed that year. and the building put up for sale by the school district.
Coahoma Community College is the designated community college."Student Residency" (Archive). Coahoma Community College. Retrieved on July 8, 2017. "Out-of-District Resident: A student who does not live within Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, and Tunica Counties but does live in some other county in Mississippi."
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