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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

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• 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.

• 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

Earthworks of Poverty Point

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• lousiana
• poverty point
• native americans
• earthworks
• mounts
• ridges
• plaza
• ornaments

Ancient Mounds Trail: Poverty Point Earthworks

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• earthworks
• mounds
• poverty point
• indians
• ridges
• artifacts
• trade networks

Marsalis Mansion Motel

MARSALIS MANSION MOTEL Opened at 110 Shrewsbury Road in 1944 to serve African Americans during segregation. Proprietor Ellis L. Marsalis, Sr., was Jazz musician family patriarch & Civil...

• lousiana
• african americans
• segregations
• marsalis
• jazz
• civil rights
• racial segregation
• african americans
• louisiana
• civil rights
• martin luthe...
• thurgood marshall
• ray charles
• etta james
• dinah washington
• alvin childress
• marsalis

Sardine Point The Cut Off

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• sardine
• catholic
• plantations
• flood
• levee
• dispersed