Richland is an unincorporated community in Holmes County, Mississippi, located approximately northwest of Goodman and approximately north of Pickens.
Richland was founded on February 9, 1842. By 1900, the hamlet was home to a church and academy. The Richland Male and Female Academy was opened prior to 1839 and was superseded by the Eureka Masonic College in 1848. The academy could accommodate 130 pupils.
Historic Eureka Masonic College, birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star (OES), is located along Highway 17 in Richland. The historic schoolhouse has also housed Masons and Company C, 15th Mississippi Infantry, of the Confederate States Army, during the American Civil War.
The 1st Mississippi Cavalry, of the Confederate States Army, was presented with its regimental colors on September 12, 1863, a gift of the ladies of Richland.
Blues musician Elmore James was born in Richland on January 27, 1918.