On Magnolia Street at School Street, on the left when traveling west on Magnolia Street.
This dogtrot style cypress log cabin was constructed in the 1840s on land near Robinsonville, Mississippi. Samuel Kerr purchased the land and cabin residence in the 1860s. The cabin was converted to a plantation commissary when Robert F. and . . . — — Map (db m263100) HM
On Norfolk Road 0.6 miles north of Old Mississippi Route 61, on the right when traveling north.
Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas, 1897-1973) was one of the premier blues artists of the 1930s and '40s. Her singing and songwriting, spirited demeanor, and superlative guitar playing propelled her to the upper echelons of a field then dominated by . . . — — Map (db m233857) HM
On Clarissa Street at Greig Street, on the left when traveling west on Clarissa Street.
Mississippi Delta blues icon Eddie James "Son"
House became one of the most heralded figures
în the blues revival of the 1960s, when he and
his wife Evie lived in an apartment building
here on Greig Street. House moved from
Mississippi to . . . — — Map (db m170963) HM
On Wilson Street (State Highway 433) at U.S. 49, on the right when traveling east on Wilson Street.
The haunting quality of Nehemiah “Skip” James’s music earned him a reputation as one of the great early Mississippi bluesmen. James (1902-1969) grew up at the Woodbine Plantation and as a youth learned to play both guitar and piano. At his 1931 . . . — — Map (db m77272) HM
On Casino Strip Resort Boulevard 2.3 miles west of Fitzgeralds Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Abbay & Leatherman, one of the oldest and largest cotton plantations in the Delta, is known to music enthusiasts worldwide as the boyhood home of blues icon Robert Johnson (c. 1912-1938). Johnson lived here with his family in a tenant shack by the . . . — — Map (db m174079) HM
Long before casinos brought legalized gambling and big-name entertainment to Tunica, African American entrepreneur Harold "Hardface" Clanton (1916~1982) ran a flourishing operation here that offered games of chance, bootleg liquor, and the best in . . . — — Map (db m51763) HM
On 1st Street at Fava Street, on the right when traveling north on 1st Street.
Highway 61, "the blues highway," is lined with the birthplaces of blues, R&B, and gospel artists all along its route in Mississippi, and even small communities such as Alligator share in this proud musical legacy. Performers born or raised around . . . — — Map (db m154805) HM
On Old Highway 61 N south of Clack Road, on the right when traveling south.
Eddie James "Son" House (1902-1988) plumbed the
emotional depth of the blues perhaps more
than any other Delta blues artist. A preacher
at times, a barrelhousing bluesman at others,
House was fiercely torn between the sacred
teachings of the . . . — — Map (db m235156) HM
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