- History·Coahoma County
Aaron Henry's Drugstore
Aaron Henry qualified as a pharmacist at Xavier University in New Orleans in 1950 and opened the Fourth Street Drug Store in Clarksdale in partnership with a white Mississippian, K. W. Walker. By his …
- Music History·Sunflower County
Charley Patton's Grave
Charley Patton was the first great figure of the Delta blues, a small, loud, theatrical performer who by Son House's account clowned for a crowd by playing the guitar behind his back and between his k…
- Music History·Sunflower County
Club Ebony
Club Ebony was built at Indianola just after the Second World War by a local entrepreneur, Johnny Jones, who bought the Hanna Avenue property with his wife Josephine in November 1945 and had the room …
- Music History·Sunflower County
Dockery Farms
Will Dockery began buying Delta timberland outside Cleveland in the mid 1880s, fresh out of the University of Mississippi at twenty, with a thousand dollars from his grandmother, and by 1895 he had en…
- Music History·Coahoma County
Early Wright
Early Wright went on the air at WROX in Clarksdale in 1947 and became the first Black disc jockey in Mississippi. Born on 10 February 1915, he was an auto mechanic by trade, with a repair shop in the …
- Museums & Art·Bolivar County
Grammy Museum Mississippi
There are two standalone Grammy Museums. The first opened in downtown Los Angeles in 2008; the second opened on 5 March 2016 in Cleveland, Mississippi, a town of about ten and a half thousand people, …
- Industry & Science·Coahoma County
Hopson Plantation
Between 1935 and 1944 Howell Hopson II worked with the International Harvester Company on his plantation south of Clarksdale to finish a machine that could pick cotton. Engineers had been trying since…
- History·Bolivar County
Isaiah Montgomery
Mound Bayou was founded in 1887 by Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green, cousins enslaved as boys by Joseph Davis, eldest brother of the president of the Confederacy. The Louisville, New Orleans…
- Quirky·Washington County
Jim Henson's Deer Creek
Jim Henson was born at Greenville in 1936 and spent most of his boyhood at Leland on the banks of Deer Creek, the family moving to Maryland when he was about a year old and back again in time for his …
- Music History·Coahoma County
Muddy Waters's Cabin
McKinley Morganfield, known as Muddy Waters, spent most of his first thirty years in a cabin on this part of Stovall Farms, sharecropping and driving a tractor, and by the early 1940s running a juke h…
- History·Sunflower County
Parchman Farm
The Mississippi State Penitentiary opened in 1901, after the state bought some sixteen thousand acres in Sunflower County, over half of it from the Parchman family, whose name stuck. It was built as a…
- History·Bolivar County
T.R.M. Howard
Taborian Hospital opened at Mound Bayou in February 1942, forty two beds, paid for by the Knights and Daughters of Tabor out of an assessment on its twenty five thousand members. Every doctor and nurs…
- Transport·Coahoma County
The Clarksdale Depot
The passenger depot on Blues Alley opened on 7 May 1927, built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, a subsidiary of the Illinois Central chartered in 1882, as part of an agreement with the c…
- Music History·Coahoma County
The Crossroads
The junction of the old routes of Highways 61 and 49 at Clarksdale was locally the crossroads by the 1930s, and blues audiences later took it for the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have m…
- History·Coahoma County
The G.T. Thomas Hospital
The building on Sunflower Avenue opened on 12 July 1916 as the Clarksdale Colored Hospital, was later the Ancient Order of Watchmen Hospital and then the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, and serve…
- Music History·Coahoma County
The New World District
Clarksdale's Black business and entertainment district took its name around the turn of the twentieth century from Nelson Jones's New World, a saloon and rooming house on the south side of the Yazoo a…
- Industry & Science·Washington County
The Rust Cotton Picker
On 31 August 1936 Mack Rust demonstrated the mechanical cotton picker he and his brother John had built, on a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville, and several hundred…
- Music History·Tallahatchie County
The Tutwiler Station
W. C. Handy was leading an orchestra at Clarksdale when, by the account in his 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues, he fell asleep at the Tutwiler railway station waiting for a train delayed nine h…