Near U.S. 82 at Legion Road, on the right when traveling west.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . . . — — Map (db m228700) WM
On Depot Avenue at South Rutherford Drive (U.S. 182), on the left when traveling south on Depot Avenue.
Born in Kilmichael, Mississippi. Fannie Lou
Hamer (1917-1977) was the daughter of
sharecroppers who moved to the Mississippi
Delta to find work on a plantation. In the
early 1960s. Hamer became an activist for
voter registration. In June . . . — — Map (db m314836) HM
On South Depot Avenue at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on South Depot Avenue.
Riley B. King, who was born in the Delta fifty miles west of here in 1925, spent many of his formative years in Kilmichael in the 1930s and ‘40s before achieving stardom as “B. B.” King. His first mentor on the guitar was the Reverend Archie . . . — — Map (db m90016) HM
Near U.S. 82 at Legion Road, on the right when traveling west.
The Mississippi Carillon shall stand forever in symbolic repose to honor our nation’s heroes who lie beneath this sacred earth. Her steel represents the strength and resolve of those who defend our great nation. Her bell represents the liberty . . . — — Map (db m228933) WM
