On Front Street at 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
In his autobiography,
father of the blues, W.C. Handy
stated that he first heard the blues,
a native negro ballad form, in the
railroad station of Tutwiler in 1895. — — Map (db m89919) HM
On Hamcock Street at Front Street, on the left when traveling west on Hamcock Street.
On August 31, 1955, Woodrow Jackson prepared Emmett Till's
body here at the Tutwiler Funeral Home, to return to Emmett's
mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Chicago. Emmett's uncle, Crosby
Smith, had to sign a document promising not to open the . . . — — Map (db m173985) HM
On 2nd Street at Front Street, on the right when traveling north on 2nd Street.
Front
Bandleader W. C. Handy was waiting for a train here at the Tutwiler railway station circa 1903 when he heard a man playing slide guitar with a knife and singing “Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog.” Handy later . . . — — Map (db m90027) HM