Gloster
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Coleman's Crossroads
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Chamberlain - Hunt Academy
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- oakland
- mississippi
- hunt
- chamberlain
Yokena Presbyterian Church
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- choctaw
- yokena
- hyland
- gould
- hankinson
- jeff davis road
Holmes County Blues Tchula
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- mississippi
- tchula
- blues
B. B. King Birthplace
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- b. b. king
- sharecroppers
- kilmichael
- lexington
- itta bena
- mississippi
Greenwood Underpass
http://misspreservation.com/2014/09/02/new-deal- in-mississippi-greenwood-underpass-aka-main- street-railway-bridge-crossing/ Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- underpass
- deco
- railroad
- mississippi
Greenwood's First Artesian Well
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- greenwood
- mississippi
- boring
- piping
- drilling
- water
- well
- wright
Bobbie Gentry
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- greenwood
- mississippi
- gentry
- chickasaw
- delta
- billie joe
- delta sweete
Robert Johnson
![[Location approximate] Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KdBfjlvFgs_HinvDCDvmcmKycGiZpdYAe2cgq4WieeyE1zDbrf8cWfWrubijfrc-Sb02EASRWwu-ZXOdWTSIH9kDx1Q)
[Location approximate] Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- johnson
- delta
- blues
- son house
- muddy watters
- elmore james
- sweet home chicago
- dust my broom
- greenwood
- mississippi
Robert L. Johnson
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- johnson
- jesus
- grave
- handwritten
- thompson
Sgt. John A. Pittman, Medal of Honor
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- pittman
- medal of honor
- korea
- truman
- 1950
The Peavine
THE PEAVINE The "Peavine" branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad met the Memphis to Vicksburg mainline at this site. From the late 1890s through the 1930s, the "Peavine"...
- blues
- mississippi
- patton
- railroad
Hopson Plantation
HOPSON PLANTATION ESTABLISHED 1852 On this site in 1944, the Hopson Planting Co. and Internationalized Harvester, revolutionized modern cotton farming by introducing the first commercially...
- mississippi
- clarksdale
- cotton
- mechanical
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy~ 1873 - 1958 ~ "Father of the Blues" composer and family lived at this site 1903 - 05. In Clarksdale Handy was influenced by Delta blues which he collected and later published as well...
- mississippi
- clarksdale
- delta
- blues
Wade Walton
WADE WALTON One of Clarksdale's most talented and renowned blues musicians, Wade Walton (1923-2000) chose to pursue a career as a barber rather than a professional entertainer. Walton never lost...
- mississippi
- clarksdale
- walton
- blues
Muddy Waters's House
MUDDY WATERS'S HOUSE Muddy Waters lived most of his first thirty years in a house on this site, part of the Stovall Plantation. In 1996 the restored house was put on display at the Delta Blues...
- mississippi
- clarksdale
- muddy waters
- blues
- chicago
Birthplace of Kermit the Frog
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- kermit
- mississippi
- henson
- stoneville
James "Son" Thomas
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- leland
- mississippi
- montgomery
- porter
- yazoo
- eden
- ferris
- greenville
Johnny Winter
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- winter
- blues
- leland
- mississippi
- cotton