ARKANSAS 169 - National Park Service

NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION OWNERSHIP 

ARKANSAS 

STORIES OF THE RELATION TO VISITOR COMMENTS 

DELTA OTHER LMDR SITES SERVICES 

Arkansas Riverboat Pulaski County, 150-passenger boat makes Private Recreation Full service cruises None 

Co., “The Spirit” North Little Rock, 

Riverfront Park 

scheduled cruises. 

Grayhawk Frontier Lonoke County, Re-created pioneer town Private Working People; NA Unknown None 

Town 

Cabot 

People versus Nature 

Pickles Gap Village Faulkner County, Crafts, arts, petting zoo, Private Recreation NA Unknown None 

north of Conway dining in re-created 19th 

century shops. 

Arkansas Arts Pulaski County, Drawings and prints of Public Expressing Cultural NA Unknown None 

Center 

Little Rock, Arkansas and national 

Values: fine arts 

MacArthur Park artists; Arkansas Children’s 

Theater base. 

Arkansas Carousel Pulaski County, World’s only remaining Unknown Recreation; NA Unknown None 

Restoration Studio Little Rock Herschell-Spillman track 

Expressing Cultural 

carousel. 


Arkansas Pulaski County, Home of all Arkansas Public Expressing cultural NA Tours None 

Governor’s Mansion Little Rock governors since 1950. 

values 

Arkansas Museum Pulaski County, Birthplace of General Public History; World War II; NA Project is underway Military arsenal, founded 

of Science and Little Rock, Douglas MacArthur in 

Civil War 

to make this a in 1838, was first military 

History 

MacArthur Park 1880; former Little Rock 

military museum. arsenal established west of 

Arsenal. Historic and 

the Mississippi. Also was 

scientific collections. 

site of civil war conflict. 

Arkansas State Pulaski County, Building modeled on the Public Government NA Tours Construction began 1899; 

Capitol 

Little Rock U. S. Capitol. 

Arkansas legislature first 

convened here in 1911. 

Arkansas Territorial Pulaski County, Oldest structures in Little Public Working People; NA Living history Living history representa- 

Restoration Little Rock Rock date to territorial 


demonstrations tion of slavery is a personal 

days; was a tavern. Living 

Values: fine arts, 

experience that gives visi- 

history representation of 

crafts; Architecture, 

tors a sense of history more 

slavery, craft shops, 

cotton-centered 

than any other exhibit. 

artists’ exhibits, Cromwell 

experience 

House of and exhibit on 

Exhibition Hall, history 

William Woodruff, founder 

wall, tours. 

of the Arkansas Gazette, 

state’s first newspaper, 

which still exists. 

Bauxite Museum Saline County; Displays from early min- Private Working People; Outside Benton, near Enthusiastic Company town 1893-1968. 

Bauxite 

ing days of town that was 

Building the American Little Rock 

museum staff with Some workers were black, 

once the center of U.S. 

Economy; Cultural 

interesting stories. Italian, and Mexican. Mex- 

aluminum production. 

Diversity; Resource 

Site may become a icans lived in a tent city 

Extraction 

wildlife refuge. called “Mexico Camp.” 

Many people who worked 

for company still live in 

area and express positive 

feelings toward mining. 

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Camp Nelson Lonoke County, Monument to unknown Unknown Civil War NA NA None 

Cemetery Cabot 

Texas and Arkansas 

Confederate soldiers. 

Daniel Greathouse Faulkner County, 19th-century structure Unknown Architecture NA Unknown None 

Home 

Conway 

with dogtrot style cabin. 

Decorative Arts Pulaski County, Located in historic Pike- Unknown Architecture; NA Self-guided tour None 

Museum 

Little Rock Fletcher-Terry house; 


features permanent and 

traveling displays. 

Values: fine arts. 

Gann Museum Saline County, World’s only bauxite Unknown Architecture; Working NA NA One-of-a-kind attraction 

Benton 

structure, built in 1893. 

Museum retells mining 

background and other 

local history. 

People 

Little Rock Central Pulaski County, High School where 1957 Public Cultural Diversity; NA None The 1957 incident at this 

High School Little Rock integration crisis took 

Civil Rights 

school became a milestone 

place. 

in the fight for desegregation. 

Marlsgate Pulaski County, Turn-of-the-century Unknown Vernacular 

NA Tours None 

Plantation Scott 

plantation home, restored 

Architecture, cotton- 

with vintage furniture and 

accessories. 

centered experience 

Mosaic Templars of Pulaski County, Built in 1911; head- Private Cultural Diversity NA Unknown None 

America Head- Little Rock quarters of one of the 

quarters 

largest African-American 

fraternal organizations. 

Old Mill Pulaski County, Re-creation of a water- Public Agriculture; NA None Beautiful site, very 

North Little Rock powered grist mill, 

Developing the 

accessible 

featured in movie Gone 

with the Wind. 

American Economy 

Old State House Pulaski County, Greek revival architecture; Public Architecture NA Tours This building was the site 

Little Rock now a museum of state 

of Clinton’s victory parties 

history. 

in 1992 and 1996. 

Plantation Pulaski County, Museum focuses on cotton Public Working people; NA Museum None 

Agriculture Scott 

and its role in the South. 

cotton-centered 

Museum 

experience 

Quapaw Quarter Pulaski County, Restored Antebellum and Public Architecture NA Driving and None 

Historic District Little Rock Victorian structures. 

walking tours 

available 

Shoppach House Saline County, 1853 house occupied by Private Architecture, Civil NA Tours by None 

Benton 

North and South during 

the Civil War. 

War 

appointment 

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Blues Corner Phillips County, Collection of recordings Private Expressing Cultural Helena Sites 

None None 

Helena 

and sheet music featuring 

Delta blues. 

Values: music Other 

Heart of Arkansas Chicot County, Tours to rice and soybean Private Building the American NA None None 

Farm Tours Dermott 

farming operations, 

Stuttgart Agricultural 

Museum, and prairie 

lands. 

Economy: agriculture 

Old Almer Store Phillips County, Plantation store built in Private Expressing Cultural NA NA None 

Helena 

1872 and restored for 

Values: fine arts, folk 

Arkansas bicentennial; 

now Delta arts and crafts. 

art 

Town of Clarendon Monroe County, Small settlement, Unknown Working People; The Roc Roe Bayou is Hull of sunken ship Town nearly destroyed 

between the White originally called “mouth 

People versus Nature; connected to the White still visible when June 24, 1864, after 

River and highway of cache,” dates back to 

Civil War 

River, and a cannon sunk river is low; no Confed. Gen. Joseph O. 

79 

1799 and has persisted as 

in what was then called marker on the site. Shelby’s Missouri brigade 

a travel junction since 

Hart Lake has never been 

sank Union gunboat, 

1837, when a military 

recovered. Factory work 

Queen City near townsite. 

crossing from Memphis to 

crafted oars and pearl 

Ship never raised. Town 

Little Rock allowed for 

buttons shaped from 

suffered. in 1927 flood. 

the creation of a township. 

mussels found in the 

river. 

Old ferries marked the site. 

New Deal Market Ouachita County, Family-owned grocery Private Cultural Diversity; Camden is a river town No historical Mr. Lee Lum met U.S. 

Camden 

store founded by Chinese 

Working People; with a rich antebellum markings on site Senator David Pryor’s 

immigrant in 1948; first 

Building the American history 

father, Edgar, on a trip 

operated as a general 

Economy 

through Camden to Hot 

store. 

Springs, and the two 

discussed the practicality 

of opening a grocery store. 

The store is now owned by 

the second generation of 

the family. 

Palmer’s Grocery Ouachita County, Grocery and feed store Private Working People Camden No visitor services Founder Milo Parker 

Store 

‘Camden founded in 1928. 

on the site Palmer, a mess sergeant in 

WW I, opened a grocery 

store and hired out as a 

cook to local groups, also 

worked as a butcher. 

Leased 1,100 acres for $40 

a yr. to grow feed. Store 

now in second generation 

of ownership. 

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Hampton Church Calhoun County, Gravesites of a military Private Spirituality, Military NA NA Military captain took in 

Cemetery Hampton captain and his blind wife. 

two girls who survived the 

Mountain Meadow 

massacre in Utah, one of 

whom was blinded in the 

attack. He left them with a 

church in Hampton, and 

after years of correspondence 

he married the 

blind girl. 

Sacred Heart Phillips County, Founded as a convent by Private Spirituality; Civil War Other sites in Helena Marker onsite Founded as a convent; was 

Academy (former Helena 

four sisters of mercy and 

a hospital during 1863 

home of Col. Henry 

Bishop Henry Byrne from 

battle of Helena. Closed in 

Biscoe 

Ireland in 1858 in former 

1868; reopened 1879 by 

Biscoe residence. 

Sisters of Charity. 

Paragould Mural Greene County, 200-foot mural depicting Unknown Working People; NA Was owned by two Arkansas has a number of 

Paragould early transportation in a 

Building the American 

men named murals depicting local 

town formed by two 

Economy: railroads 

Paramour and Jay history. The art form 

intersecting railroads. 

Gould; names were provides an attractive and 

combined to form relatively inexpensive way 

Paragould. Gould 

did not like having 

second billing. 

of celebrating history. 

Sea Wall Mural Phillips County, Mural depicts blues Unkown History; Expressing Behind the Delta Cultural NA None 

Helena 

history and early Helena 

history. 

Cultural Values: music Center 

Southland Crittenden County, One of the largest grey- Private Recreation NA NA None 

Greyhound Park West Memphis hound racing facilities in 

the country. 

Arkansas County Arkansas County, Collection of Delta struc- Unknown Building the American NA Self-guided None 

Museum 

south of Gillett tures, including farm 

Economy: agriculture; 

museum 

equipment; also focuses 

on country doctors. 

Cultural Diversity 

Arkansas Post Arkansas County, Has been a French fort Was French, Peopling Places; Early settlers, explorers Visitor center, First lower Mississippi 

National Memorial south of Gillett and a Spanish fort, site of Spanish, French Cultural Diversity: include Henri de Tonti, barrier-free trails, River Valley settlement 

skirmish after American again, then Native American, Robert La Salle; fishing areas; established by de Tonti in 

Revolution, a river port, American French, Spanish; naturalists John James comprehensive 1686; developed as trading 

site of a civil war battle, Federal Revolutionary War; Audubon and Thomas study by Morris S. station after La Salle in 

territorial capital. 

Civil War; 

Nuttall visited 

Arnold: Colonial 1682; site of John Law’s 

Colonialism; Working 

Arkansas 1686- colony, ca. 1719. First 

People (trade), Early 

Exploration 

1804 (1991) slaves in area 1721. 

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Centennial Baptist Phillips County, African-American church Private Spirituality; Helena has several points NA Church grew from 23 

Church 

Helena 

designed by African- 

Architecture; Cultural of interest, most dealing 

members in 1879 to more 

American architect Henry 

Diversity 

with the blues or other 

1,000 members in 1922. 

James Price. 

aspects of Delta life 

Arkansas City Desha County, Small town that was on NA Mississippi River; Arkansas City stands by Perhaps best possi- Town has nearly died after 

Arkansas City the Mississippi River 

Cultural Diversity; itself. It is not on the bility for re-creating 1927 flood and resulting 

before 1927 flood. Several 

People versus Nature; Great River Road, but it a river town. Excel- change in river course. 

buildings in need of 

Building the American should be. 

lent opportunity Was steeped in steamboat 

restoration. Courthouse 

Economy: steamboats; 

exists. Visitors culture; 17 saloons and no 

clock was restored 1996. 

Recreation 

could get a feeling churches. Streets were 

for life on the named for famous steam- 

Mississippi. boats such as Robert E. 

Lee and Kate Adams. 

Chalk Bluff Park Clay County, north 

of St. Francis 

Civil War battle site Public Civil War NA Unknown None 

Dallas County Dallas County, Museum, housed in 1907 Private History; Native Fordyce was a lumber Displays are in- This museum could use 

Museum 

Fordyce 

building, has displays on a 

Americans; Working center around the turn of formed, but more some help in research; 

local physician, Bear 

People; Architecture; the century. 

information is need- probably has less than 

Bryant, and Adm. Thach, 


ed on country phy- extravagant, financial 

inventor of the Thach 

Values: sports 

sicians and on pro- backing. 

Weave, an aerial fighting 

jectile points to put 

tactic. Also has displays 

them in proper 

on local Native American 

culture. 

perspective. 

Tontitown Washington Italian settlement formed NA Working People; NA NA None 

County, Tontitown by settlers unsatisfied with 

labor agreements. 


Rowher Desha County, Internment camp where NA Cultural Diversity; Jerome, Arkansas also Only a marker Deaths in the camp, 24; 

Rowher 

Japanese-Americans were 

World War II; had a relocation center. stands at Rowher. others were killed in the 

held during WW II. 

Patriotism 

State parks have reported Japanese-American armed services in Europe, 

much interest in citizens have cre- including in 442nd Jap- 

developing the two sites ated a garden. Othanese-American unit of the 

in recent years. ers have said the 100th battalion, which 

site is very moving. distinguished itself in WW 

II combat. 

Confederate Phillips County, Historic Confederate Private Civil War Helena NA None 

Cemetery Helena 

burial ground laid out on 

the upsurge of Crowley’s 

Ridge. 

Crittenden County Crittenden County, Museum, in Missouri Public Working People; NA None 

Museum 

Earle 

Pacific depot, has exhibit 


on rural physicians, 

collections of artifacts. 


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NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION OWNERSHIP STORIES OF THE RELATION TO VISITOR COMMENTS 


Phillips County Phillips County, Museum with Civil War Public Mississippi River; NA None 

Museum 

Helena 

memorabilia, local 

history. 

Civil War 

Desha County Desha County, Re-creation of life in a Public Building the American NA Excellent visitor Grounds are well kept 

Museum 

Dumas 

typical south Arkansas 

Economy;’ Working 

services, open two 

farming community; 

People; Expressing 

afternoons a week 

emphasis on pioneer life. 

Cultural Values: 

family, cotton-related 

experiences; 

Agriculture 

Poison Spring Ouachita County, Site where Confederate Public Civil War Marks Mills is also a NA Supply train was captured 

Battleground west of Camden soldiers captured a Union 

battle site connected with 

during the Union’s ill-fated 

Historical 

Monument 

supply train in 1864. 

the Red River campaign. 

Red River campaign. 

Tate Barn Sale Ouachita County, Major arts and crafts Private Vernacular 

Camden None 

Tate Barn festival held in the oldest 

Architecture; 

building in the county. 


Values: festivals 

Indian Summer Ouachita County, Traditional Native NA Cultural Diversity: Camden Unknown None 

Pow-Wow Camden 

American dancing, 

competition, arts, food. 

Native Americans 

Southern Arkansas Columbia County, Tour of agricultural Public Vernacular 

NA NA None 

University Magnolia school, Ozmer House, and 

Architecture; agricul- 

1883 dogtrot structure. 

ure 

Emerson Rotary Columbia County, Rotary tiller races NA Agriculture; Expres- NA NA None 

Tiller races Emersons 

ing Cultural Values 

Marks Mills Cleveland County, 1864 battle site; cemetery Private Civil War Marks Mills was part of Unknown None 

Battleground and Marks Mills is also resting place of 

the Union’s Red River 

Cemetery 

early settlers. 

campaign 

Armadillo Festival Ashley County, Festival oriented toward NA Expressing Cultural NA NA None 

Hamburg children. 

Values 

Ashley County Ashley County, Museum in 1918 two- Ashley County Cultural Diversity: NA Unknown Sleighs, wagons, and farm 

Museum 

Hamburg story house. Large shed Historical Native Americans; 

tools in large shed. Mu- 

houses collection of horse- Society Agriculture 

seum emphasizes clothing, 

drawn vehicles. 

furniture, local history, 

including Native 

American. 

Phil’s Antique Barn Calhoun County 1930 structure now houses Private 

county memorabilia 

Agriculture NA NA 

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Arkansas Oil and Union County, near Museum tells story of Public Working People; NA Well-defined Derricks, pumps, and jacks 

Brine Museum Smackover 1920s oil boom in south 

Resource Extraction 

programs; complete are part of a visual working 

Arkansas, gives a compre- 

menu of 

display. 

hensive look at history of 

interpretive 

the industry. actual rigs 

and equipment, original 

fields. 

displays 

Parker Pioneer Poinsett County, Displays include log Private Working People; NA Demonstrations None 

Homestead Harrisburg cabin, broom shop, 

chapel, covered wagon, 

grist mill, and sorghum 

mill and pit; 

demonstrations of 

sorghum making and lye 

soap making. 

Agriculture 

Arkansas State Craighead County, Museum with 100 exhibits Public Cultural Diversity: Delta Cultural Center, Arkansas State None 

University Museum Jonesboro covering prehistory to 

Native Americans; Helena 

University at 

present. 

Agriculture; 

Jonesboro has best 

Mississippi River, 

collective 

History 

interpretation on the 

Delta in Arkansas 

through the 

museum and a 

number of 

professors. 

Museum Lepanto Poinsett County, Delta history exhibits Public Cultural Diversity; NA Unknown None 

USA 

Lepanto 

Mississippi River 

Hampson Museum Mississippi County, Collection of artifacts Public Native American NA Excellent visitor Interest in archeology of 

Wilson 

from the Nodena site, Late 

services 

local Dr. James K. 

Mississippi period culture. 

Hampson led to this 

collection, drawing directly 

from the Nodena site. 

Delta Cultural Phillips County, Detailed look at Delta life Public Cultural Diversity; Other sites in Helena Very user-friendly; Helena helped several 

Center 

Helena 

and times, housed in a 


well-developed Arkansas country singers 

1912 train depot (donated 

Values: music, family; 

history of the Delta. develop their roots in the 

by Union Pacific). Focus 

Working People; 

Tells a coherent, blues. Conway Twitty, 

on agriculture, the river, 

Mississippi River; 

but varied story. Johnny Cash, and Charlie 

the people, and the blues. 

Agriculture; cotton- 

Rich all have ties to the 

related experience, 

area and are Arkansas 

timber 

natives. 

Marianna / Lee Lee County, Exhibits include general Public Working People, Civil NA Museum None 

County Museum Marianna store, parlor, kitchen, 

War, cotton 

cotton; also Civil War and 

experience, 

World War II artifacts. 

Agriculture 

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W. G. Huxtable Lee County, Largest of its kind in the NA NA NA NA None 

pumping plant Marianna world. 

Parkin 

Cross County, Archeological study of a Public Native Americans NA Onsite interpretive Some scholars believe this 

Archeological State Parkin 

Mississippi period Indian 

services, research to be the village of Casqui, 

Park 

village, 1350-1550. 

station, programs which De Soto visited in 

1541. 

St. Francis County St. Francis County, Native American and Public Native Americans; NA Museum None 

Museum 

Forrest City Civil War artifacts, local 

history 

Civil War 

O. Demoret and Son Phillips County, 

Private Working People, NA Unknown None 

General Mercantile Elaine 


Store and Museum 

Economy 

Louisiana Purchase Phillips County, Monument marks the Public Early Exploration; NA Good services, but None 

State Park Marvell 

historic 1815 survey 

Colonial History 

park probably 

starting point in what was 

receives little traffic 

to become Arkansas. 

because of remote 

location. 

Lephiew Cotton Gin Chicot County, In operation since 1886; Private Cotton-related NA Good example of a None 

Dermott 

open for tours during 

harvest season. 

experience 

modern cotton gin 

Rubye and Henry Chicot County, Historic grocery store; NA Native Americans; NA Efforts to increase None 

Connerly Museum Eudora 

local history artifacts. 


hours and holdings 


Agriculture 

are underway. 

Lindbergh Marker Chicot County, Marker indicates where Public Aviation history In Lake Chicot State Park NA None 

Lake Village Col. Charles A. Lindbergh 

made his first night flight 

over Lake Chicot in 1923. 

Stuttgart 

Arkansas County, Impressive collection of Public Cultural Diversity; Ulm Stuttgart began as a Ger- 

Agricultural Stuttgart farming implements and 

Agriculture; Building 

man settlement on the 

Museum 

displays concerning farm 

the American 

sparsely populated Grand 

life on the Grand Prairie. 

Economy 

Prairie. It is now the rice 

Waterfowl wing; scale 

capital of the world. Amaz- 

representations of 

ing story of an aerial 

community church, 

stuntman, display of his 

school, and firehouse. 

equipment 

Herman Davis Mississippi County, Monument to commemor- Public World War I NA NA None 

Memorial Manila 

ate a great WW I hero 

who served under and 

drew great praise from 

Gen. Jack Pershing. 

Woman’s Cross County, Site is part of a 1936 WPA Unknown NA NA None 

Progressive 

Building 

Wynne 

project. 

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Turner Neal Drew County, Exhibits on the Arkansas Unknown Nature NA Unknown None 

Museum 

Monticello natural history. 

Fargo Agricultural Monroe County, Floyd Brown, a Tuskegee Private Cultural Diversity; NA By appointment Syrian immigrants in area. 

School Museum Fargo 

graduate, started school in 

1919 to give black students 

a good quality high 

school education. 

Education 

White River Flows from Several historic sites along Private Working People; Batesville, Newport, Des NA The book The Last River, 

Missouri through the river; Native American 

Cultural Diversity; Arc, De Valls Bluff, and 

by Turner Browne, 

Arkansas and history, Civil War, and 

Native Americans; Clarendon all began as 

chronicles the lives of 

empties into the now conservation con- 

Natural Resources river ports. 

people who make a living 

Mississippi River. cerns. 

along the White River and 

the threat that progress 

poses to their lives. 

Houseboat dwellers White River, A few independent souls Private Working People; NA No markers Percy writes of these folk 

between Des Arc still live in the style that 


in Lanterns on the Levee. 

and Clarendon; once constituted sizable 

Values 

possibly Black 

River also. Prairie, 

Monroe, and 

Phillips Counties 

communities. 

Pearl Divers White River Pearl divers once sold NA Working People; White River, especially NA Japanese use the small 

Jackson, White, their finds to local factor- 

Building the American Clarendon, past home of 

pearls to fertilize oysters, 

Woodruff, Prairie, ies, where buttons were 

Economy 

button factories 

making their pearls more 

and Monroe made. Now the small 

valuable. The Last River by 

Counties pearls are sold to Japanese 

Turner Browne contains 

companies. 

photographs of pearl divers 

at work. Process looks like 

a cross between movies 

Deliverance and Waterworld. 

Civil War Camden, Claren- List of names in connec- NA Civil War Dougan’s Confederate NA Jenkins Ferry, Little Rock, 

don, Fort Smith, tion with the war. 

Arkansas 

Mansfield, Marks Mills, 

Helena (see 

Osceola, Pea Ridge, Poison 

“Comments”) 

Springs, Red River campaign, 

Wilson’s Creek 

Altus Heritage Franklin County, The original German- Unknown Cultural Diversity; NA Unknown None 

House Museum Altus 

American state bank, circa 


1800s, with local history 

Economy; Resource 

and coal mining exhibit. 

Extraction 

Arkansas River Pope County, Interpretive exhibit on the Public Development of Russellville area Visitor Center None 

visitor center Russellville (Old development of the river. 

Natural Resources; 

Post Road Park) 

Arkansas River 

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Arkansas and Washington Restored railroad crosses Unknown Developing the Van Buren and Unknown None 

Missouri Railroad County, Springdale, 1882 Winslow tunnel, 

American Economy; Springdale areas 

restored tresses, and the 

Boston Mountains on a 

scenic ride. 

Working People 

Council Oak, Yell County, Massive 400 to 500-year- Public Native Americans NA NA Seemingly fitting connec- 

Council Oaks City Dardanelle old white oak tree where 

tion between the tree and 


in 1820 a Cherokee chief 

the treaty signing. The tree 

signed a treaty giving all 

is a throwback to another 

land south of the Arkansas 

time that has survived the 

River to the territory. 

invasion, as the Cherokee 

did not. 

Crawford County Crawford County, The oldest active Public Architecture Van Buren Unknown None 

Courthouse Van Buren courthouse west of the 

Mississippi River; still has 

the original Seth Thomas 

clock. 

Mount Olive United Crawford County, This church, built in 1889, Private Spirituality; Cultural Van Buren NA NA 

Methodist Church Van Buren is said to hold the oldest 

black congregation in the 

United Methodist system 

west of the Mississippi. 

Diversity 

Ozark Heritage Pope County, north Features handmade items Unknown Working People; Area is rich in Ozark Hands-on The area along the 

Crafts 

of Russellville of over 200 crafters. 

Expressing Cultural culture 

demonstrations Arkansas River Valley 

Woodcarving shop has 

Values: crafts 

offered 

from Fort Smith to Little 

demonstrations. 

Rock is one of the fastestgrowing 

sections of 

Arkansas. The region is 

moving ahead economically 

and maintains a sense 

of heritage. 

Indian Paintbrush Benton County, Gallery of Native Private Cultural Diversity: NA Gallery NA 

Gallery 

Siloam Springs American paintings, 

weavings, pottery. 


Thorncrown Chapel Carroll County, Chapel designed by E. Private Architecture NA NA NA 

Eureka Springs Fay Jones, a Frank Lloyd 

Wright student. Liberal 

use of glass incorporates 

the surroundings into the 

work. Breathtaking. 

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Blythe’s Museum Scott County, Museum contains a Private Local history; Native NA Museum Museum is in the second 

Waldron, collection of Native 

Americans, 

floor of a brake and front- 

American artifacts and 

end shop; both are owned 

local history exhibits. 

by the same man. The 

collections are a result of a 

lifelong hobby. 

Cowie Wine Cellars Logan County, A family-owned and Private Building the American NA Tour includes a NA 

Paris 

operated winery 

Economy; Expressing 

history of the 

Cultural Values: food 

family and 

and drink 

winemaking. 

DeGray Lake and Clark County, 13,800-acre lake with Public, with People versus Nature DeGray Lake and dam are Private lodge; Only recently has the 

Dam 

between Hot state park, popular for private holdings 

between Arkadelphia and federal 

Corps of Engineers begun 

Springs and fishing, camping, near lake 

Hot Springs. 

campgrounds; to talk candidly about the 

Arkadelphia swimming, skiing, and 

resort 

ecological debate and some 

diving. Dam built in late 

unpopular decisions sur- 

1970s amid a fierce debate 

rounding the construction 

over the environmental 

impact. 

of the dam. 

Wolf House Baxter County, 1820s “dogtrot” cabin. Unknown Vernacular 

NA Unknown Cabin at one time was the 

Memorial Norfork 

Museum features local 

Architecture; Cultural 

Courthouse and county 

history, including 

Diversity; local 

seat. Museum includes 

mementos of builder Maj. 

history. 

mementos of builder Maj. 

Jacob Wolf. 

Jacob Wolf, a German 

pioneer. 

Arkansas House of Garland County, Exhibit features 67 rare Private Natural Resources Store co-owner also owns Store is run by an Reptile house is more im- 

Reptiles 

Hot Springs exhibits from six conti- 

Rocky’s Corner, an expert on reptiles; pressive than most zoos. 

nents. 

Italian restaurant across seems to be a first- Mr. Diorio has been col- 

from Oaklawn racetrack. class operation. lecting snakes and other 

reptiles for years, searching 

in some areas that require 

very exclusive permits. 

Arkansas Pulaski County, Arkansas Symphony NA Expressing Cultural Robinson Center Music 

Arkansas Symphony 

Symphony Gala Little Rock Orchestra performed with 

Values: music Hall in downtown Little 

Orchestra handles its own 

Bernadette Peters Febru- 

Rock is just a few blocks 

promotion, 

ary 21, 1997. 

from the Old Statehouse 

and Quapaw Quarters. 

Toltec Mounds Lonoke County, Claims are made that this Public Native Americans NA Guided tours None 

State Park Scott 

is “one of the largest 

Mound Builders sites 

remaining in the Lower 

Mississippi River Valley.” 

available 

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Hot Springs Garland County, A 216-foot observation Private NA Historic district of Hot Open to the public Incredible views of foliage 

Mountain Tower Hot Springs tower with indoor and 

Springs 

for a cost of about in autumn. 

outdoor viewing decks 

$5. Focus is on gift 

offering a spectacular 

shop rather than 

overlook of the historic 

district and most of Hot 

Springs. 

history. 

Wagon Yard Lonoke County, Collection of early wag- Private Working People; NA None 

Museum 

England 

ons, stagecoaches, and 

farm equipment. 

Agriculture 

The Witness Garland County, Contemporary Christian Private Spirituality; NA None 

Hot Springs musical drama at Mid- 


America Amphitheater. 

Values: music, 

performing arts 

Crater of Diamonds Pike County, The only diamond-bearing Public Building the American NA Several exhibits, None 

State Park Murfreesboro field in North America 

Economy; Resource 

gift shop, and 

that is open to the public. 

Extraction 

recreational areas 

King Biscuit Blues Phillips County, Four-day festival featuring Public Expressing Cultural Festival is closely tied to Well publicized in Helena puts a lot of effort 

Festival 

Helena 

a variety of music, as well 

Values: gospel music, the Delta Cultural Center the immediate re- into showcasing the area, 

as food, arts, crafts, and 

blues; Recreation: in Helena. 

gion, but may be using King Biscuit as a 

photography. 

festivals 

relatively unknown 

in areas without 

radio stations devoted 

to blues 

music; history of 

the music is possiblyunderrepresented. 

spokespiece. 

Mena Depot Center Polk County, Mena Local history museum and Unknown Working People; NA None 

art gallery housed in a 


restored train depot. 

Values: art 

Murray’s Dinner Pulaski County, Contemporary musical Private Expressing Cultural NA Charter member of 

Playhouse Little Rock comedy along with a 

Values: music, drama; 

National Dinner Theatre 

buffet dinner. 

Recreation 

Association. 

National Cemetery Pulaski County, Cemetery established in Public Military History; Civil Little Rock Cemetery contains remains 

Little Rock 1866. 

War, other wars. 

of more than 22,000 

veterans from Civil War 

through Desert Storm. 

180


NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION OWNERSHIP STORIES OF THE 

DELTA 

Jacksonport State Jackson County, Park surrounding 1869 Public Civil War; Building 


Jacksonport courthouse salutes 

the American 

Jacksonport, a thriving 

riverport town in the 

1800s. Reconstructed 

riverboat on site. 

Economy: steamboats 

Prairie County 

Museum 

Old Washington 

Historic State Park 

Prairie County, Des 

Arc 

Hempstead County, 

Washington (near 

Hope) 

Jenkins’ Ferry, Grant County, 

south of Sheridan 

Old Davidsonville 

State Park 

Lawrence County, 

Pocahontas 

Ozark Folk Center Stone County, 

north of Mountain 

View 

Exhibits on early 

Arkansas settlement, 

transportation routes, 

river-based econ-omy, 

including fishing and 

shelling. A Civil War 

exhibit focuses on river’s 

role in the war. 

A 19th century restoration 

town, includes 36 sites, 

including homes, churches, 

cemeteries, a tavern, a 

jail, museums, a cotton 

gin, and a re-created 

blacksmith shop. 

Civil War battlefield, part 

of the Red River campaign; 

battle occurred on 

April 29-30, 1864. 

Established in 1815, 

Davidsonville had first 

post office, courthouse, 

and land office in the 

Arkansas territory. 

Artisans demonstrate 

homestead skills and 

crafts, Sunday gospel 

concerts, live entertainment 

(pre-1940s musical 

performances), and craft 

fairs. 

Public Civil War; Working 

People, 

Public Civil War, 

Architecture, Working 

People 

181 

RELATION TO VISITOR 

OTHER LMDR SITES SERVICES 

NA Campsites, picnic 

sites 

COMMENTS 

Town was occupied by 

Confederate and Union 

forces during the Civil War 

because of its strategic 

location. Made strong by 

steamboats, it began to 

decline in the 1870s when 

bypassed by the railroad. 

NA The interpretation of 

Arkansas’s rivers focuses 

on the White River. 

The state park also has The town, 

world’s only 

bladesmithing school. The 

tradition began with the 

well-known Bowie knife 

at this site. 

Public Civil War Red River campaign 

included Poison Spring 

and Marks’ Mill. 

Public Early Settlement; 


Public Working People; 


Values: folk art, 

drama, music 

established in 1824, 

was an important 

stop for people 

traveling to Texas, 

and it was the 

Confederate Capital 

of Arkansas 1863- 

1865. 

NA Campsites, picnic 

areas, fishing 

NA Sunday gospel 

concerts, live 

entertainment six 

nights a week, 

restaurants, lodge 

None 

None 

Town faded in the 1830s. 

Cabin crafts offered in 

22 living history 

exhibits demonstrating 

barrel-making, broommaking, 

blacksmithing, 

etc. in summer and fall; 

gift shop features 

homemade furniture, 

toys, and food.





Powhatan Lawrence County, Courthouse, built in 1888 Public Vernacular 

NA NA Powhatan was a busy 

Courthouse State Powhatan from bricks made onsite, 

Architecture; Early 

riverport town in mid- 


features delicate wood- 

Settlement 

1800s, site of a famous 

work and a classic 

ferry. Today the 

Victori-an cupola; jail was 

courthouse serves as 

con-structed of limestone. 

archives for some of the 

This state park features 

restored courthouse, jail, 

and a museum on early 

exploration. 

oldest records in Arkansas. 

Prairie Grove Washington Civil War battlefield in Public Civil War NA Museum Exhibits and interpretive 

Battlefield State County, Prairie the Ozarks. Museum 

programs depict Civil War 


Grove 

empha-sizes life of a Civil 

period and its impact on 

War soldier. Buildings resemble 

19th century hill 

community. 

Arkansas. 

Lake Chicot State Chicot County, Most events at this state Public Civil War Civil War reenactment of NA None 


Lake Village park feature birds or 

fishing. Civil War Weekend 

is in October. 

the battle at Ditch Bayou. 

Town of Fordyce Dallas County, Town founded by Civil Public Civil War; World War Dallas County Museum is NA Home of world’s first 

Fordyce 

War Col. Samuel Fordyce; 

II; Aviation; in Fordyce 

southern pine plywood 

home to WW II Adm. 


mill, Georgia-Pacific Corp. 

John H. Thach, naval 

Values: sports 

First direct-dial long 

aviator and inventor of the 

distance telephone call in 

“Thach Weave”; Birth- 

U.S. was made from Allied 

place of Coach Paul 

Telephone Company in 

“Bear” Bryant; 

Fordyce in 1960. First 

AME church started in 

Holly Springs by Robert 

Singleton. 

Arkansas Territorial Pulaski County, Living history reenact- Public Civil War, Cultural On grounds of Arkansas NA None 

Restoration. Annual Little Rock ments on Mother’s Day 

Diversity; Expressing Territorial Restoration 

May festival 

weekend festival. ATR 

has an African-American 

Living History Troupe 

that sings and performs. 

Cultural Values: music 

Town of Helena Phillips County, Site of Civil War battle in NA Civil War NA NA None 

Helena 

July 1863 

De Valls Bluff Monroe County; De Site of federal garrisons NA Civil War NA NA None 

Valls Bluff during Civil War 

182





Elaine Phillips County, Site of 1919 race riot in NA Working People; NA NA None 

Elaine 

response to efforts by the 

Progressive Farmers and 

Household Union, which 

asked for higher prices for 

cotton grown by black 

tenant farmers. 


Ulm Prairie County, Modern town that began NA Cultural Diversity; Stuttgart NA None 

Ulm 

as a German settlement 

when war veterans 

claimed land on the Grand 

Prairie. 

Early Settlement 

Towns of Hicks and Phillips County, Two towns heavily NA Cultural Diversity; NA NA None 

Barton 

Hicks and Barton populated by Swiss 

immigrants who settled on 

railroad land in late 19th 

century. 

Early Settlement 

Arkansas Railroad Jefferson County, Museum with railroad Unknown Building the American NA NA None 

Museum 

Pine Bluff memorabilia, including 

Economy: railroads; 

passenger and freight cars 

and Engine 819. 


Bradley County Bradley County, Building housing museum Public Local history NA Museum None 

Historical Museum Warren 

is on the National Register 

of Historic Places; museum 

tells local history. 

Drew County Drew County, House built in 1909 Public Vernacular 

NA Museum NA 

Historical Museum Monticello contains artifacts and 


antiques; two 1800s log 

cabins also on the site. 

Settlement 

Grant County Grant County, Collection of restored Unknown Local History; Early NA Museum, tours NA 

Museum / Heritage Sheridan buildings houses artifacts 

Settlement 

Village 

related to local history 

Keepers of the Jefferson County, Display chronicles history Private NA NA Display can be seen University of Arkansas at 

Spirit /Persistence Pine Bluff of black Arkansans and of 

by appointment Pine Bluff display chroni- 

of the Spirit 

University of Arkansas at 

cles history of black 

Pine Bluff. 

Arkansans and of UAPB. 

McCollum- Ouachita County, Historic home, now a Private Civil War NA Museum NA 

Chichester House Camden 

museum, was a stagecoach 

depot through Civil War; 

house still sports bullet 

holes from a Civil War 

battle. 

Nevada County Nevada County, Old-fashioned railroad Private Building the American NA Museum NA 

Depot museum Prescott, depot. 


183





Pine Bluff / Jefferson County, History of city, county, Public Building the American NA Museum NA 

Jefferson County Pine Bluff railroads, and especially 


Historical Museum 

lumber. 

Resource Extraction 

Pioneer Village Cleveland County, Re-created 19th century Private Vernacular 

NA Tours NA 

Rison 

village with blacksmith 


shop and log cabins. 

Settlement; Working 

People 

Sevier County Sevier County, De County history, plus tours Public NA NA Museum, Tours NA 

Museum 

Queen 

of 1840 home at the site of 

Paraclifta, once a thriving 

town. 

Wiggins cabin / Old Ashley County, Log cabin and shotgun Public Working People NA Tours NA 

company house Crossett 

mill house in Crossett city 

park. 

Town of Marked Poinsett County, Town began in 1881 as a NA Working People NA NA The town has the world’s 

Tree 

Marked Tree construction camp. A 

blazed oak tree marked a 

ford and portage point at 

confluence of St. Francis 

and Little Rivers. 

three largest siphons. 

Meador’s Drug Desha County, 1940s style lunch counter Private Working People NA NA NA 

Store; Desha 

County Museum 

Dumas 

still serving 

Felsenthal National Union County, west 65,000 acres for fishing, Federal Natural Resources NA NA NA 

Wildlife Refuge of Crossett hunting, and wildlife 

observation, especially 

bird life. 

Mississippi County Mississippi County, Historical center occupies Private Building the American Town is called Plum Point Unknown Fred Patterson had the first 

Historical Center Osceola 

a building that was a 

Economy; Expressing in some of Mark Twain’s 

store built in 1901. His son 

mercantile store for 86 

Cultural Values: stories. 

continued the business 

years. 

literature 

after his death in 1964. 

Old Davidsonville Randolph County Davidsonville was site of Public History; Early NA NA Town was the seat of 


the state’s first 

Settlement; Peopling 

Lawrence County in 1815, 

courthouse, post office, 

Places 

while Arkansas was still a 

and land office (see 

territory. It flourished 

“Comments”). 

through travel along the 

Black River and an old 

military road between 

Saint Louis and Texas. 

184





Pearogue School Izard County, north 1915 wooden school Private Vernacular 

NA Unknown School is not a typical 

Hollow 

of Boswell building 

architecture 

white-washed rectangular 

building, but looks like a 

modern art project; trim is 

elaborate and pronounced, 

rather like an oriental 

pagoda. The school is set 

in the middle of the woods, 

creating an interesting 

contrast. 

Pea Ridge National Benton County, Pea Civil War battlefield Federal Civil War NA Onsite services, Pea Ridge was a key battle 

Military Park Ridge 

tours 

in deciding the fate of 

Missouri. Saint Louis 

housed important arsenals. 

Petit Jean State Park Conway County, State park features a Public Natural Resources NA ‘Petit Jean Mountain lies 

southwest of mountain overlook and a 

between the Ouachita and 

Morrilton 95-foot waterfall. Most 

facilities were built by the 

CCC. 

Ozark mountains. 

Lum ‘n’ Abner Montgomery Collection of memorabilia Private Cultural Diversity; NA Town changed its name in 

Museum 

County; Pine Ridge concerning the careers of 


1936 to match the fictional 

principals of a popular 

Values: radio 

title “Pine Ridge” to 

1930s radio show, which 

entertainment 

capitalize on public interest 

starred two local men in a 

nationwide radio program 

based on the region. 

in the show. 

White River Marion County, Vintage train gives train Private Building the American Train stops at Cotter Train makes two None 

Railway 

Flippin 

trips along White River. 

Economy: railroads; Access, Buffalo City, round trips per day. 

Recreation 

Norfork, and Calico 

Rock. 

Queen Wilhelmina Polk County, Mountain lodge built in Public History NA None 

State Park northwest of Mena 1898 by railroad investors 

to honor of the queen of 

Holland. 

Janssen Park Polk County, Mena Park has two mountain Public Military History; NA Unknown Cabin has been a hospital, 

howitzer cannons, one 

Vernacular 

a post office, an inn, a city 

used in the Civil War, the 

Architecture 

hall, and allegedly a 

other in the Mexican War. 

1851 log cabin, area’s first 

homesite. 

hideout for Jesse James. 

Wal-Mart Visitor Benton County, Sam Walton’s first variety Private Building the America NA Visitor Center Wal-Mart is now the 

Center 

Bentonville store opened in 1945. 

Economy 

largest retailer in the 

United States. 

185





Town of Deer Newton County, Near Cherokee settlements NA Native Americans NA NA Sequoyah is said to have 

Deer 

along the 1820s and 1830s 

stayed at Deer while 

Trail of Tears. 

developing the written 

version of the Cherokee 

language. 

Searcy County Searcy County, Displays of 19th century Public Civil War, Agriculture NA Museum None 

Museum 

Marshall farm implements, Civil 

War memorabilia. 

Van Buren County Van Buren County, Museum features local Public Military history; NA Museum None 

Museum 

Clinton 

history, including displays 

Agriculture; Early 

on rural medicine, war, 

agriculture, and early 

history. 

Settlement 

Cummins Prison, Lincoln County, Varner housed the Public Cultural Diversity NA Unknown The prison was a target of 

Varner 

Varner 

barracks for Cummins 

reform for the first 60 years 

Prison, an inmate farm. 

of this century. 

Scott Joplin mural Miller County, Mural 20’ x 140’ Unknown Expressing Cultural NA NA One of Joplin’s 

Texarkana depicting life and 

Values: music 

compositions was The 

compositions of famous 

ragtime composer Scott 

Joplin. 

Entertainer. 

Town of Piggot Clay County, Town hosted Ernest NA Expressing Cultural NA Hemingway’s Piggott was also the site of 

Piggot 

Hemingway while he 

Values: literature, 

studio is now movie, A Face in the 

worked on A Farewell to 

movies 

privately owned, Crowd, starring Andy 

Arms. Hemingway 

not open to public. Griffith. Piggott was 

married a local woman. 

established as a railroad 

town. 

Town of Gregory Woodruff County, Possible home of NA Civil War NA Local legend says Crocker, saying he came 

Gregory 

Confederate raider 

Crocker was from Georgia, arrived with 

Quantrill. One L. J. 

Quantrill, and he nothing but a horse and a 

Crocker settled here in 

never denied the good deal of money. He 

1867, lived until 1917 (see 

rumor. 

bought a large farm. 


Several local people said 

he was Quantrill, whom he 

resembled. 

Battle of Cotton Woodruff County, Site of Civil War battle on NA Civil War; Early NA NA Another battle took place 

Plant 

Cotton Plant July 7, 1862. (Woodruff 

History 

in Woodruff County April 

County is named after 

1, 1864, at Fitzhugh’s 

founder of state’s oldest 

woods north of Augusta. 

newspaper. 

Many stores still bear iron 

plates of immigrant 

founders. 

186




Buffalo River Marion County A man named Walter Private Working People NA Rafting Walter Isom was one of the 

Rafting 

Isom, who died in 1969, 

county’s last raftsmen. 

made a living rafting 

Buffalo River is now 

timber down the Buffalo 

and White Rivers. 

Buffalo National River. 

Home of “Aunt Jackson County, “Aunt Caroline” was a Private Expressing Cultural NA There is some “Aunt Caroline” is 

Caroline” Dye Newport well-known black fortune 

teller / clairvoyant who 

lived in Newport in the 

early 1900s. 

Values; ‘ethnicity, 

vernacular 

interest in erecting mentioned in W. C. 

a marker or opening Handy’s “Sundown 

the house. 

Blues.” 

Blackville Jackson County, Town settled by 53 black NA Cultural Diversity; NA NA No Blackville families 

Blackville families in wake of Civil 

local history 

accepted relief during the 

War. Former slave named 

Pickens Black owned 

6,000 acres and started 

town after the Civil War. 

Great Depression 

Jamestown Independence Town founded in 1869, NA Education; local NA NA Town grew to support 

County, Jamestown was destroyed by fire 

history 

Arkansas Normal College 

August 1921. 

before entire town 

destroyed by fire in August 

1921. 

Pfeiffer Stone Independence Local rock company Private Cultural Diversity; NA Unknown None 

Company County, Batesville founded in 1903 by 


German immigrant Fritz 

Krueger. 

Economy 

Kingsland Cleveland County, Hometown of country NA Expressing Cultural NA NA This town of about 300 

Kingsland music legend Johnny Cash 

Values: music; 

people does not capitalize 

and football coach Bear 

Recreation, sports 

on its amazing hometown 

Bryant 

sons. 

Sunnyside Chicot County, Antebellum plantation that Private Working People; NA Tours Several scholars have 

Plantation on Lake Sunnyside became infamous in 1900s 

Cultural Diversity; 

published material about 

Chicot 

Plantation through abuse of Italian 

Agriculture 

the area. A recent book has 

immigrants. 

been done by Jeannie 

Whayne of University of 

Arkansas at Fayetteville. 

Arkansas Indian Sharp County, 

Unknown Native Americans NA Unknown None 

Culture Center Hardy 

Bald Knob White County, Bald 

NA NA NA Museum None 

Centennial Museum Knob 

Blytheville Heritage Mississippi County, Museum focuses on the Private Building the American NA Museum None 

Museum 

Blytheville legacy of cotton and on 

Economy: cotton, steel 

local aviation. 

industry; Aviation 

187





Living Farm Randolph County, 

Unknown Agriculture NA Museum None 

Museum of the 

Ozarks 

Pocahontas 

Log Cabin Museum Prairie County, Des Re-created “dogtrot” NA Vernacular 

NA NA 

Arc 

museum 

Architecture; Working 

People 

Ozark Heritage Arts Searcy County, Museum of local history, NA Working People; 

Good exhibits Museum consists of four 

Center and Museum Leslie, 

art gallery, and a 400-seat 


suffer from neglect rooms of artifacts, 

theater in a restored 1938 

Values: fine arts; 

over the years especially on local 

WPA gymnasium. 


Economy 

businesses 

South Arkansas Arts Union County, El A 200-seat studio; two art Private Expressing Cultural 

Unknown Well-established program 

Center 

Dorado 

galleries featuring visual 


9 to 5 Mondays through 

arts changing monthly; 

ballet and music lessons. 

dance, music 

Fridays 

Veterans’ Military Sharp County, Museum concerning Private Military history Museum One room, “the motor 

Museum of Hardy Hardy 

military history 

pool,” displays vehicles 

from World War II to 

Vietnam. Another exhibit 

contains memorabilia from 

the Civil War through 

Desert Storm. 

White County White County, Log cabin c. 1840; Private Vernacular 

Museum None 

Historical Museum Searcy, 

original one-room 

Architecture; local 

schoolhouse; rebuilt 

general store 

history 

Mammoth Spring Fulton County, State’s largest spring, 10th State Natural Resources; 

Fishing, boating, None 

State Park Mammoth Spring largest in world, featuring 

excellent fishing and floating. 

Onsite 1880s railroad 

museum, and an old powerhouse 

that was operated 

by the spring’s power. 

Recreation 

museum 

188

ILLINOIS 

NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION OWNERSHIP STORIES OF THE RELATION TO VISITOR 


Old Landmark Inn Randolph County, Building near Mississippi Private Architecture; The William & Ellen Cohen Restaurant open 

& Captain’s Table Chester 

River, built in the 1830s, 

River 

Memorial Center, Elzie only on Thursday, 

Restaurant 

retains its original struc- 

Segar Birthplace Friday, and Saturture 

but has been 

day; otherwise, a 

remodeled. 

lounge. 

William & Ellen 

Cohen Memorial 

Center 

Roscoe Misselhorn 

Art Gallery 

Popeye 

Museum/Spinach 

Can Collectibles 

Popeye Mural on the 

side of the Old 

Chester Opera 

House 

Marked grave of 

Frank “Rocky” 

Feigle, basis for 

Popeye. 

Randolph County, 

Chester 


Sparta 


Chester 


Chester 


Chester 

Ten-room white frame 

mansion with glass windows 

tinted blue on upper 

half. Originally built in 

1855, building sits on a 

high bluff overlooking the 

Mississippi River. Inside, 

fireplaces and woodwork 

reflect earlier era. 

Housed in the restored GM 

& O Railroad depot, gallery 

has about 900 pencil 

sketchings done over his 

lifetime by the local artist, 

now in his 90s. 

Gift store selling Popeye 

memorabilia housed in the 

Old Opera House where 

Elzie Segar, Popeye’s 

creator, once worked. 

Public Architecture; 


Values 

189 

Old Landmark Inn & 

Captain’s Table 

Restaurant 

Public Art; History Randolph County 

Archives Building, ASC 

Provincial House (Ruma 

Convent) [sites Misselhorn 

sketched] 

Private Expressing Cultural 

Values 

Mural on the side of the Public Expressing Cultural 

Old Chester Opera House, 

where Elzie Segar worked. 

Includes Olive Oyl, Popeye, 

and Wimpy; gives 

names of local people on 

which the characters are 

based. 

Values 

Frank “Rocky” Feigle’s Grave was 

grave, in St. Mary’s Ceme- marked by the 

tery, now has a tombstone Popeye Fan Club 

with a picture of Popeye 

on it. 


Values 

Serves as a 

community center 

that welcomes 

visitors; tours are 

conducted 

Weekend hours: 1 

p.m. to 5 p.m., but 

private tours can be 

arranged. 

NA Museum of Popeye 

memorabilia with 

items to sell. 

Segar’s birthplace; marked 

grave of Rocky Feigle 

[basis for Popeye]. 

Good for Popeye 

fans, can be viewed 

easily. 

COMMENTS 

This restaurant overlooking 

the Mississippi River is 

about all that is left from 

Chester’s riverboat heydey. 

Delta Queen, other riverboats 

dock sometimes. 

Mark Twain is said to have 

frequented here. 

Mark Twain referred to the 

cobalt windows of the 

structure (untouched) in 

Life on the Mississippi. 

Sketches spanning 1920s to 

present are of the surrounding 

area, as well as St. 

Louis, Chicago, and other 

places. Residents call 

Misselhorn their local 

“Norman Rockwell.” 

Elzie Segar, a native of 

Chester, created his “Popeye,” 

comic strip using 

local people. 

Universal planning to open 

a Popeye theme park. 

Popeye has his own stamp. 

NA Easily viewed Rocky Feigle was sort of 

the town bully; always had 

a pipe in his mouth.

ILLINOIS 



Riverboat Mural at Randolph County, Built in June 1938, occu- Public The River; 

Old Landmark Inn and Open regular 

U.S. Post Office Chester 

pied in May 1939, site still 

Architecture; Art; Captain’s Table business hours. 

in use today. Real interest 

is 1930s wall mural, painted 

around 1940 by Fay 

Davis, a Depression artist. 

Shows Chester’s riverboat 

era. 

Women 

Restaurant 

Sparta Community 

Airport/ “Hunter 

Field” 

John A. Logan 

Museum 

ASC Provincial 

House (The Ruma 

Convent) 


Sparta 

Jackson County, 

Murphysboro 


Ruma 

Organized in 1959. Called 

“Hunter Field” after the 

Hunter brothers, local 

aviation pioneers. Pictures 

of Hunter brothers with 

their aircraft and other 

memorabilia hang in the 

office, and a plaque is 

mounted on a post. 

Located at site of Logan’s 

birth, museum honors Logan, 

who fought in the 

Mexican War in 1846 and 

served as a Union soldier, 

rising to major general. 

In a building built before 

1860s, Clara Zerr & 20 

sisters of Adorers of the 

Blood of Christ fleeing 

Bismarck in 1876 settled 

on about 26 acres (former 

boys’ school), began serving 

German community of 

southern Illinois. (see 

“Comments”) 

Public Aviation NA No admission. 

Pavilion and picnic 

area for public. 

Public Civil War; Veterans Other Civil War sites Regular hours on 

weekends 

Private Religion; Ethnic 

Diversity; 

Architecture; 

Agriculture 

190 

Other religious 

communities 

COMMENTS 

Mural is described as a 

“Hollywood-type depiction” 

akin to Showboat. 

Other Fay Davis work is 

said to be in other areas of 

Illinois. 

Hunter brothers, friends of 

Charles Lindbergh, set 

aviation records, most 

notably world endurance 

record for flying over 

Chicago nonstop for 28 

days in 1929. Two died 

tragically, one air-related; 2 

others flew, private pilot 

for a congressman, other 

for American Airlines. 

Logan fought in Battle of 

Bull Run, kept Union 

forces from destroying 

Raleigh after Lincoln’s 

death. Elected to Congress 

after Mexican and Civil 

Wars. Launched Memorial 

Day; swayed Southern 

Illinois to Union side. VP 

mate, J. Blaine in 1884 

presidential race. 

Private property Former school and semi- 

includes a nursing nary turned over to the 

home; visitors sisters. Building additions 

asked not to walk made in 1870, 1890, 1925. 

the grounds Farm produces corn, wheat, 

unsupervised. Can cattle; sisters teach and are 

call to arrange tours. missionaries. Now 500 

acres and serve world 

community. Province 

headquarters.


ILLINOIS 



National Coal Franklin County, Established 132 years ago, Public nonprofit Working People; Other coal mines Open 7 days a Dream of Charles Ledvina, 

Museum 

near West Frankfort only mine shaft open to 


week, tour guides former coal miner para- 

the public. Located 600 

Economy 

are act-ual coal lyzed in mine accident. 

feet belowground. Visitors 

miners who worked Dedicated to preserving 

enter a cage and drop 

in mine in ‘94 rich coal mine heritage. 

down. View is pre- 

before closing. Plans are to open restored 

dinosaur, over 300 million 

Admission fee; 1920s Hoist House, build- 

years old. 

groups of 20 or ing leads to the cage 

more need reser- leading to mine. More 

vation. Interpreters memorabilia will be added, 

available with advance 

notice. Mine 

opened August 

1996; has drawn 

over 4,000 visitors. 

too. 

Randolph County Randolph County, Stone Gothic building Public Architecture; Ethnic Roscoe Misselhorn Part-time curator, NA 

Museum and Chester 

constructed in 1864 now 

Diversity 

Gallery (sketching of but can view build- 

Archives 

houses museum and 

building) 

ing during regular 

archives of French 

Colonial Records. 

business hours. 

Ibendahl Farmstead Perry County, near 

DuQuoin 

Harvey Pitt’s 

Waterfowl Museum 

Marion Cultural 

Center 

Egyptian Drive-In 

Restaurant 

Perry County, 

DuQuoin 

Williamson County, 

Marion 

This 12-room house built 

in 1850s contains Locust 

Hill Academy, Illinois’s 

first graded school system 

(attended by John Logan). 

Started in 1858 by B. G. 

Roots, who also hid slaves 

during Civil War. 

Display of 550 antique 

wood duck decoys; also 

mounted waterfowl 

Restored 1921 vaudeville 

theater 

Williamson County Drive-in movie theater; 

world’s largest screen at 

12 stories high. 

Private Education; Ethnic 

Diversity; Slavery; 

Civil War 

191 

John A. Logan Museum Tours by 

appointment only. 

The Ibendahls are 

knowledgeable 

about the history. 

Private People versus Nature NA Tours by 

appointment only; 

entrance fee $1, 

refreshments 

provided. 

Public Expressing Cultural 

Values: theater arts. 

Private Recreation; Expressing 

Cultural Values 

NA Plays and performances 

offered 

throughout the year. 

NA Eat-in restaurant. 

Movies shown from 

February to 

October. 

NA 

Harvey Pitt is well-spoken 

and knowledgeable. He has 

expanded his home to accommodate 

this museum. 

Harry Houdini performed 

here. 

One of Illinois’s remaining 

drive-in movie theaters; 

old-fashioned prices.

ILLINOIS 


DELTA 

Depot Veterans’ Franklin County, Restored railroad depot Public War; Working People; 

Museum/Coal West Frankfort housing a museum of 


Miners’ Memorial 

memorabilia of all 1900s 

wars. 

Economy 

Frankfort Area 

Museum 

The Hill House (Bed 

& Breakfast) 

Franklin County, 

West Frankfort 

Franklin County, 

Sesser 

Built in 1916; contains 

exhibits spanning 1802- 

1976, including early 

home, early doctor’s 

office. 

Restored 1914 three-story 

house with built-in 

bookcases, fireplace, china 

cabinet. Contains original 

picture rail. 

Bald Knob Cross Union County Cross, 111 ft. tall, was 

completed in 1963 as a 

national symbol of faith in 

God. When lit at night, can 

be seen over 7,500 square 

miles. 

The Superman 

Museum 

Massac County, 

Metropolis 

Superman Statue Massac County, 

Metropolis 

Museum housing more 

than 40,000 items relating 

to Superman, including 

comic books, movie props, 

original art, a phone booth. 

Fifteen-foot statue with 

“Truth, Justice, and the 

American Way” carved on 

its base. 

Public Peopling Places; 

Working People, 

Private Vernacular 

Architecture 

192 



National Coal Museum Tours available by 

appointment 

National Coal Museum; 

Depot Veterans’ 

Museum/Coal Miners’ 

Memorial 

Open Wednesdays 

and Thursdays 

NA 

NA Four rooms available 

for visitors, 

each with a different 

theme, one of which 

is Lincoln- 

Douglass, another, 

antiques. 

NA 

Public Spirituality NA Bald Knob Recreation 

Area is available 

at no charge to 

all religious groups. 

Welcome center on 

premise offers 

refreshments. 

Private Popular Culture Superman statue Open 7 days a week 

9 a.m.-6 p.m.; $3 

general admission, 

children 5 & under, 

free. 

COMMENTS 

Has a widely used genealogy 

library; also has 

noose used to hang Charlie 

Birger of the Shelton Gang 

in the 1920s. 

First Easter service was 

held here in 1937; wooden 

cross built in 1938. Three 

wooden crosses still there 

were erected in 1945. 

Founders Wayman Presley 

and Rev. William Lirely 

died in 1990 and 1992, 

respectively. 

NA 

Public Popular Culture The Superman Museum NA Only U.S. town named 

Metropolis, so town raised 

more than $100,000 to 

build statue by selling 

bricks where the statue 

stands. The local newspaper 

even renamed itself 

The Metropolis Planet.

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DELTA 

The Chocolate Pope County, Dixon Chocolate shop featuring Private Expressing Cultural 

Factory 

Springs 

over 30 different kinds of 

chocolate, plus a variety of 

beverages and ice cream. 

Values: food 

Colvis Orchards Randolph County, 

north of Chester 

Elzie Segar’s 

Birthplace (Creator 

of Popeye) 


Chester 

Popeye Statue Randolph County, 

Chester 

Old Slave House Gallatin County, 

Equality 

Orchards that have been in 

Colvis family for four 

generations. 

Marker indicating where 

Elzie Segar was born. 

Statue of Popeye commissioned 

by the city because 

Popeye creator Elzie Segar 

is a Chester native. 

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NA Restaurant Across the street from 

Dixon Springs State Park. 

Private Peopling Places; Food NA Closed Christmas to Harry Colvis moved to this 

mid-April. Sells site in 1908 to escape the 

bedding plants, flood. Fourth generation 

chrysanthemums, 

holiday plants, dried 

flowers, candies, 

crafts, etc. 

now operates the orchards. 

Public/Private Popular Culture; 

Recreation 

Popeye Statue; Spinach 

Can Murals; Popeye 

Museum; Rocky Feigle’s 

grave 

Public Popular Culture Elzie Segar’s Birthplace; 

Popeye Mural; Spinach 

Can Collectibles; Popeye 

Museum 

Three-story mansion built Private Slavery; Race 

between 1834 and 1838. 

Slaves were kept on the 

third floor, and there was a 

breeding room to breed 

new slaves. 

Relations 

Marker only; house 

is privately 

occupied. 

NA NA 

Other slavery-related sites Not open to public 

at present. 

Segar created the comic 

strip in 1929, basing 

characters on many town 

residents, including his 

boss for Wimpy. Popeye 

will have a theme park at 

Disney World. He already 

has a stamp. 

Owner John Hart Crenshaw 

built this house where he 

kept slaves he bought and 

traded on the third floor, 

where he also had two 

slave posts for whipping 

slaves. There is much in the 

house. Hopefully someone 

will ensure that it reopens.


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The American Hardin County, Museum dedicated to Public Building the American Other labor/industry sites Plans to start hours Originally lead was mined, 

Fluorite Museum Rosiclare fluorspar, or fluorite, 

Economy 

for visiting. but owners discovered 

state’s official mineral. On 

Fluorspar could be used 

the site of an actual mine 

with steel; began mining it 

last worked in 1954. Min- 

after Civil War. Fluorspar 

eral appears as crystals. 

appears as crystals in hues 

Used in making steel, 

from purple to green, pink, 

aerosols, ceramic glaze. 

yellow, and amethyst. 

Veterans’ Affairs Williamson County, Hospital built in 1941 has Public Architecture; War Egyptian Drive-in Can drive by and Egyptian theme is 

Hospital 

Marion 

an Egyptian motif and is 

Restaurant 

see unusual compatible with Cairo in 

painted in different hues of 

architecture Alexander, and the area 

pink, with terra cotta 

running throughout. In 

addition, there are some 

eagles on top of the 

building. 

known as “little Egypt.” 

Concord Cemetery Pulaski Co., Small cemetery of 3 acres Private Regional Creativity NA Can Visit Anytime The pyramid-like tomb- 

Concord Cemetery, which has been there since 

stone has a 10 ft. square 

3 miles northwest of before the Civil War, 

base and goes about 40 feet 

Olmstead, IL estimates range around 

up and has a cannonball 

1828 to 1836. Grave of Ed 

atop it. Built in 1933, just a 

Gore particular note. 

Notorious practical joker, 

had a tombstone built prior 

to death that kind of looks 

like a pyramid. 

little before Ed Gore died. 

Concord cemetery Pulaski County, Small 3-acre cemetery has Private Regional Creativity NA Can visit anytime Gore’s pyramid-shaped 

near Olmstead existed since before the 

tombstone has a base 10 

Civil War, estimates range 

feet square and is about 40 

around 1828 to 1836. Of 

feet tall, with a cannonball 

particular note, grave of 

atop it. Built in 1933, just a 

Ed Gore, a notorious 

practical joker who had a 

rather pyramid-looking 

tombstone built before his 

death. 

little before Ed Gore died. 

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Hamilton County Hamilton County, Housed in a Victorian Public Regional History; Other military and war- Open 1 p.m. to 4 

Historical Society second floor of house built around 1884. 

Military History related sites 

p.m. Mondays, 

Museum 

McCoy Memorial War room in the museum 

Wednesdays, and 

Library, 

includes war memorabilia 

Fridays 

McLeansboro from Mexican War to the 

Vietnam war. Also has a 

genealogy room. 

Matsel Cabin White County, 

Carmi 

Mary Lou’s Jackson County, 

Carbondale 

Saline County Area 

Museum 

The Paul Powell 

Museum 

Saline County, 

Harrisburg 

Johnson County, 

Vienna 

Log cabin built in 1850s - 

1860s that portrays mid- 

1800s life of an average 

family. 

Public Peopling Places Other “Peopling Places” 

sites 

Restaurant started in the Private Expressing Cultural 

1960s; slogan is 

“Downtown, down home.” 

Values: food 

Eleven buildings on property, 

which was originally 

a poplar farm from 1855 to 

1948. Converted to museum 

in 1960. Contains a 22room 

house that has a 

south wing of 10 rooms 

built in 1855, and a north 

wing with 12 rooms, in 

1877. Never used residentially. 

Public Peopling Places; 

Architecture; Building 

the American 

Economy; Religion 

195 

Carmi Chamber of 

Commerce has 

information 

Other restaurants Known for biscuits 

and gravy, 

homemade cream 

pies. 

Other “Peopling Places” 

sites 

Open 9 a.m. to 4 

p.m. Tuesdays- 

Saturdays; Sundays 

12-4 p.m., closed 

Mondays 

COMMENTS 

This Victorian house is 

listed on the National 

Register of Historic Places. 

This may be only site in 

Carmi not on the National 

Register of Historic Places. 

Perhaps it is a candidate as 

well. 

Everything is homemade in 

this “downtown, down 

home” restaurant that is a 

tradition at Southern 

Illinois University. Has 

pictures on the wall. 

Of 170 original acres, 3.5 

remain. Cemetery across 

street is still in use. Buildings 

on property brought in 

from around county: oneroom 

schoolhouse from 

1800s, small grocery store, 

post office, log cabin, 

church, caretaker’s cabin 

over 170 years old. 

Museum opened in 1979 at Public Regional History NA Saturdays and Paul Powell was one of the 

birth home of Paul 

Sundays 2 to 4 p.m. key sponsors for 

Powell, the 31st and 32nd 

McCormick Place in 

Illinois secretary of state. 

Chicago. He helped Harry 

Served in state government 

Truman win Illinois in 

beginning in 1934; died in 

1948 and John F. Kennedy 

office. 

in 1960.

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Cobden Museum Union County, Museum opened in 1961 Private Native Americans; Other Native American Closed in winter; 

Cobden 

with an emphasis on 

Regional History; War sites 

reopens each April; 

Indian artifacts in the 

can call owners for 

Southern Illinois area, but 

now it also has Civil War 

items, a pump organ, and 

Anna Kirkpatrick pottery. 

hours. 

Lincoln-Douglass 

Debate Marker 

Williamson County 

Museum 

Davie Intermediate 

Grade School 

Union County, 

Jonesboro, 

Williamson County, 

Marion 

Union County, 

Anna 

Old Railroad Bridge Alexander County, 

Thebes 

Garden of the Gods Gallatin County, 

Elizabethtown 

Large piece of stone with a 

brass plate describing the 

historic debate marks the 

site of the 1858 debate. 

Museum occupies the old 

Williamson County Jail, 

built in 1913. 

School building 100 years 

old. Donated by Davie, 

who asked that town be 

named after his wife, 

Anna. 

Old bridge made of 

double- racked steel 

Channel span is 671 feet 

long. 

Collection of wind- and 

water-eroded limestone 

and sandstone cliffs. The 

land, once flat, has lifted 

up thousands of feet over 

hundreds of centuries. 

Public Civil War; American 

History 

196 

Other Civil War sites Site and Lincoln 

Memorial Picnic 

Area open every 

day from 8 a.m. to 

10 p.m. 

Public Regional History NA Closed December 1 

through April 1; 

open April- 

December on 

Thursdays from 9 

a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Public Architecture Other schools Visitor services not 

established yet 

COMMENTS 

Indian artifacts include 

projectile points, tools, 

pottery, weapons, hunting 

tools and jewelry. Believed 

to be one of the largest 

public displays of Indian 

artifacts in southern 

Illinois. 

NA 

Sixteen sheriffs and 

families lived in this 

building while inmates 

were incarcerated in back. 

Now it houses information 

about Williamson County. 

Building has always been 

used as a school; what the 

town will do with it is 

unknown. 

Public? Railroads; Architecture NA Not yet determined Bridge designed by Ralph 

Mojeski, son of famous 

opera singer, crosses 

Mississippi River to Scott 

City, MO. Tested on May 

25, 1905. 

Public People versus Nature NA NA NA


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Fort Jefferson Ballard County, Founded in 1780 by Private Native American Ballard county also has Unknown Fort Jefferson was be- 

near mouth of Ohio George Rogers Clark, this 

issues 

Native American 

sieged by the Choctaws, 

River 

site is marked. 

Mounds, but it is 

Cherokees, and Chicka- 

unknown if they are 

saws in 1781. Most of the 

related. 

inhabitants died from 

starvation. 

Dr. David Amoss Caldwell County, House of founder of the Caldwell County Labor and Class, Princeton was the heart of The historical Amoss did not grow 

House 

Cobb 

Night Riders. 

Historical Tobacco-centered the movement. All the society hopes to Tobacco, but was inter- 

Society experience 

Night Rider sites are form a Night Riders ested in the military aspects 

related. 

tour, opening the of the movement. He was 

house to the public. never convicted of any 

crime. 

1923 Tobacco Caldwell County, Tobacco warehouse built Private Labor and Class; Mary Lou Hollowell Should be on Night Seminary and Cave. No 

Warehouse Princeton during the last reorgani- 

tobacco-related Farm and House; Other Riders tour other tobacco warehouses 

zation of the Planters 

experience 

Night Riders-related sites 

from this period stand in 

Protective Association in 

Caldwell County, as they 

1923. 

were burned by the Night 

Riders. 

Mary Lou Hollowell Caldwell County, Home of woman who Private, but Labor and Class; 1923 Tobacco 

Will be on Night Hollowell was the victim 

Farm and House Princeton “Brought the Night Riders Historical tobacco-related Warehouse; other Night Riders tour of Night Rider violence in 

to their knees.” 

Society hopes to experience 

Riders-related sites 

1907. She filed the lawsuit 

buy it. 

that eventually led to the 

Night Riders’ decline. 

Trail of Tears site Caldwell County, Park with gravesites of Unknown Native American Trail of Tears Open to public NA 

Princeton Native Americans. 

Issues 

WPA Folk Art and Caldwell County, Large concrete sculptures Private Expressing Cultural Unknown Not restricted NA 

House 

near Princeton created for the WPA by 

John Vinson in the 1920s; 

includes large concrete 

baskets with glass chips. 

Values 

Nathan Stubblefield Calloway County, Gravesite of uncredited Unknown Expressing Cultural Stubblefield birthplace Not restricted Local legend and some 

gravesite 

Murray 

inventor of the radio. 

Values 

books hold that Stubblefield 

invented the radio, but 

neglected to get a patent. 

He demonstrated the 

invention at a town 

gathering in the early 20th 

century. 

Nathan Stubblefield Calloway County, House where inventor was Private Expressing Cultural Stubblefield gravesite Unknown NA 

Birthplace Murray 

born. 

Values: family 

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Rudy’s Restaurant Calloway County. Has served downtown Private Expressing Cultural Unknown Open 5 a.m. to 2 Serves the lunch crowd, but 

on the Square. Town Square, merchants for 61 years. 

Values: food 

p.m. Monday stays open late on Fridays 

Murray 

through Thursday, to serve fish. Not in same 

5 a.m. to 7 p.m. 

Fridays 

family for duration. 

Statue of Robert E. Calloway County, Statue of Gen. Lee Public Civil War Unknown NA Local legend says that the 

Lee 

Murray 

statue faces north because, 

“You never turn your back 

on the enemy.” 

Fort Heiman and Calloway County, Lookout camps during Private Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown Owner claims to know 

Fort Henry on Tennessee River Civil War for Confederacy 

location of tree used by 

on opposite sides of river 

lookouts to peer down into 

the river valley. 

Tobacco Barn Art Calloway County Tobacco Barn murals Private Expressing Cultural Unknown Unknown Recent Art done by a 

by Randy 

Thurmond 

Values: art 

Calloway County resident. 

Wallace Drug Store Calloway County, Reputed to be oldest Private Working People; Unknown Open to public None 

Murray 

continuously operating 


pharmacy in Kentucky 

Economy 

Native American Calloway County, Site where tipis were set Private Native American Unknown Owner is willing to None 

Camp 

Baccusburg up and laundry was done. 

Issues 

talk to visitors 

Ellis Popcorn Calloway County, 1950s era popcorn Private Working People; Unknown Open for tours Murray was the popcorn 

Company Murray 

distributor 


distribution capitol of the 

Economy 

country in the 1950s and 

1960s; this is the only 

remaining company. 

Hopkinsville Christian County, Town is location of NA NA NA NA None 

Hopkinsville festival 

Audubon Mill Park Henderson County, Park which was site of State People versus Nature Unknown Open to public Audubon ran the mill when 

Henderson John James Audubon’s 

Grist Mill 

he lived in Kentucky. 

Downtown Henderson County, NA Mixed Expressing Cultural Unknown Open to public The tie to W. C. Handy is 

Henderson Henderson 

Values: music, 

unknown, but bluegrass 

festivals 

music is indigenous to this 

part of the country. 

Ellis Park Horse Henderson County. 1922 horse racing track Private Recreation Unknown $2 admission July2- None 

Racing 

US 41 

open from July through 

Oct.2 and late 

October. 

December, T-F at 3 

p.m., Sat & Sun at 

1 p.m. 

Marvin College Hickman County 3-story dormitory Private Education Barkley’s home Angles, Unknown Dormitory of former V.P. 

Dormitory 

Barkley gravesite 

Alben Barkley when he 

attended Marvin College. 

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Columbus Belmont Hickman County Civil War Camp. CCC Public Civil War; Cultural Other Civil War sites Open to public None 


shelters remain on the site 

from the time of the Great 

Depression. 

Diversity 

Cave-in-Rock Ferry Crittendon County, Ferry where 19th century Public Working People Unknown Free None 

Marion 

river pirates robbed 

flatboats. Associated with 

a state park in Illinois. 

Crittendon County Crittendon County, Museum is in a log cabin; Public Vernacular 

Unknown Free; open May- None 

Museum 

Marion 

features military uniforms 

Architecture; 

October Tues., 

and 200-year-old loom. 


Thurs., and Sat. 10 

Values 

a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Ollie James House Crittendon County, House of senator involved Private Developing the Night Riders sites; Ollie Unknown None 

Marion 

with Night Riders. 

American Economy James gravesite 

Ollie James Crittendon County, Gravesite Unknown Developing the Ollie James house; other Unknown In Mapleview Cemetery, 

gravesite 

Marion 

American Economy tobacco-related sites 

grave of Kentucky Senator 

who was involved with 

Night Riders. 

Casey Jones Fulton County, Birthplace of legendary Private Vernacular 

Site across street No visitor services Birthplace of legendary rail 

Birthplace Cayce 

rail character celebrated in 

architecture; 

character celebrated in folk 

folk music 


Values: music 

songs. 

Nameless Hopkins County, Erected to commemorate Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Free to be viewed On Hopkins County court- 

Confederate Soldier Madisonville burning of old courthouse. 

by public house lawn. Statue com- 

Monument 

memorates burning of old 

courthouse by Confederacy. 

Madisonville three- Hopkins County, Includes Dolly Madison NA Festivals Unknown NA None 

day festival Madisonville tea, symposium on 

Madison, dinner theater, 

wine tasting, 5K run, 

religious liberty luncheon. 

Battle of Browning Hopkins County, Civil War battlefield Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown On campus of Madison- 

Springs 

Madisonville 

ville Junior High School. 

Ruby Laffoon Cabin Hopkins County, A Kentucky governor’s Hopkins County General history Unknown Admission $1; open NA 

Madisonville birthplace restored from Historical 

1-5 p.m. Monday 

original logs 

Society 

through Friday. 

Eddyville State Lyon County, Castlelike structure built State of Cultural Diversity Unknown Unknown This structure near the 

Penitentiary Eddyville in 1886 

Kentucky 

Cumberland River is 

known as the “Castle on 

the Cumberland.” 

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Benton spring Marshall County. Tater Day has been annual None Festivals Unknown Tater Day, first The Shape Note Festival 

events: Tater Day Benton 

event since 1840s; Shape 

Monday in April; has been featured in the 

and Shape Note 

Note Festival since 1854. 

Shape Note New York Times, and 

Festival 

Festival, fourth shape note singers sang at 

Sunday in May. the White House in 1973. 

VMV of Paducah McCracken Locomotive manufac- Private Building the American Unknown Unknown None 

County, Paducah turing business from mid- 

Economy; Working 

1800s is still in operation 

in same building. 

People 

Coke Building McCracken Art Deco building from Coca Cola Building the American Unknown Unknown Coca Cola outgrew build- 

County, Paducah mid-1920s. 


ing (bottling plant) long 

People; Vernacular 

ago but still uses it as a 

architecture 

warehouse. The coke sign 

in front stays lighted virtually 

all the time. 

Paducah Junior McCracken Paducah Junior College in Private Education, Spirituality Unknown Open to public None 

College/Broadway County, Paducah old church building; parts 

Methodist Church 

of old building still 

visible. 

Irwin Cobb Hotel McCracken Posh hotel from Paducah’s Private Recreation; Unknown Hotel Centerpiece of Paducah’s 

County, Paducah heyday. 



downtown renovation. 

Columbia Theatre McCracken Theater with entrance Private Recreation; Cultural Unknown Shows still offered Sign over separate door 

County, Paducah remaining from 

Diversity 

in theater. says “Second Balcony 

segregation era 

entrance.” 

The Federal McCracken Building boasts mural Public Cultural Diversity; Unknown Unknown None 

Building 

County, Paducah depicting town’s history. 


Vernacular 

Architecture 

The Market House McCracken Marketplace 125 years old Public Working People; Unknown Houses museum None 

County, Paducah 


exhibits and 


dramatic 

Diversity: drama 

productions 

Paducah Marine McCracken Barge manufacturer Private Building the American Unknown Unknown The oldest Paducah 

Ways 

County, Paducah founded in 1854 and still 

in operation 

Economy 

industry still in operation. 

Floodwall McCracken Built following flooding Public People versus Nature Unknown Can be seen by None 

County, Paducah of Mississippi River in 

1937 

public. 

Paducah City Hall McCracken Building designed by Public Architecture Unknown Visitors welcome This building designed by 

County, Paducah world-famous architect 

Durrell Stone is a near- 

Durrell Stone 

replica of the U.S. Embassy 

in New Delhi, India. 

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The Lloyd McCracken Home of railroad magnate Unknown Civil War; Building Unknown Unknown None 

Tilghman House County, Paducah and Civil War Hero 1852- 

the American 

1861 

Economy 

Museum of the McCracken Museum with display of American Vernacular Creativity Unknown Open to public None 

American Quilters’ County, Paducah 200 quilts 

Quilters’ 

Society 

Association 

Fort Anderson McCracken 


Union fort from Civil War Public Civil War Unknown Open to public None 

Irwin S. Cobb McCracken Gravesite of famous Unknown History Irwin Cobb Hotel Open to public In Oak Grove cemetery on 

Gravesite County, Paducah politician 

Park Avenue 

Chief Paduke Statue McCracken Statue of Paducah’s Public Native American Unknown Statue stands in Statue by sculptor Lorado 

County, Paducah namesake 

issues 

median of road, not Taft stands on Jefferson 

feasible to “visit.” Street. 

Alben Barkley McCracken Grave of former Vice Unknown History Angles, Marvin College Open to public Grave is in Mount Kenton 

gravesite 

County, Paducah President Alben Barkley 

Cemetery on Lone Oak Rd. 

Angles McCracken Alben Barkley’s home Unknown History Marvin College, Alben Open to public None 

County, Paducah 1937-1956 

Barkley gravesite 

Historic Oldtown McCracken Restaurant that has been Private Cultural Diversity; Unknown Still serving food Purported to be the first 

Restaurant County, Paducah open since 1847. 


brothel in Paducah, as well 

Values: food 

as the first speakeasy. 

John T. Scopes McCracken Grave of defendant in Unknown Spirituality; Education Unknown Open to public Grave is in Oak Grove 

gravesite 

County, Paducah groundbreaking evolution 

case 

Cemetery on Park Avenue. 

Old Lincoln High McCracken Old high school for black Public Cultural Diversity: Unknown No visitor services Building’s auditorium 

School 

County, Paducah students 

race issues 

potentially could be used 

for conferences, etc. 

Everly Brothers Muhlenberg Monument in front of city Everly Brothers Expressing Cultural Unknown Open to public. None 

Monument County, Central hall 

Foundation Values: music 

Potential for music 

City 

tour in Muhlenberg 

County 

TVA Plant Muhlenberg Large power plant on TVA Building the American Unknown Open for tours None 

County, Paradise Green River built by TVA 


People; Transforming 

the Environment 

Peabody Mines Muhlenberg Mines in reclaimed land Private Building the American Unknown Unknown Immortalized in John Prine 

County, Paradise 


song, “Paradise”: “Daddy 

People; Extracting 

won’t you take me down to 

Resources 

Muhlenberg County/ down 

by the Green River/ where 

Paradise lays./ I’m sorry 

my son/ but you’re too late 

in asking/ Mr. Peabody’s 

Coal train done hauled it 

away.” 

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Rice Tobacco Muhlenberg Tobacco factory from Private Building the American R. T. Martin Tobacco Unknown Tobacco factories are rare. 

Factory 

County, Central early part of 20th century 

Economy; Working Company 

City 

People; tobaccorelated 

experience 

R. T. Martin Muhlenberg Tobacco factory from Private Building the American Rice Tobacco Company Unknown Tobacco factories are rare. 

tobacco Factory County. Central early part of 20th Century 


City 


experience 

Ephraigm McClean Muhlenberg Gravesite of War of 1812 Private History Unknown Open to public Brank is considered to have 

Brank Burial Site County, Central veteran 

been a main force in 

City 

American Victory in Battle 

of New Orleans. 

Gen. Simon Bolivar Muhlenberg Birthplace of Civil War Private Civil War Other Civil War sites No visitor services Part of adjoining furnace 

Birthplace County, Central general. 1830s log cabin 

still remains but has been 

City 

out in country, off main 

road. 

dynamited. 

Mose Rager House Muhlenberg Home of guitarist who Private Expressing Cultural Potential to be on music No visitor services None 

and Monument County, 

taught Merle Travis how 

Values: music tour of Muhlenberg 

Drakesboro to play 

County 

Merle Travis Muhlenberg Large monument marking Private Expressing Cultural Potential to be on music No visitor services Cemetery is off highway 

gravesite 

County, Ebenezer grave of guitar legend 

Values: music tour of Muhlenberg 

176, 10 miles outside 

Merle Travis. 

County 

Central City. 

Jesse Oats gravesite Muhlenberg Gravesite of 

Private History Unknown Open to public None 

County, Central Revolutionary War Hero 

City 

Jesse Oats 

James Clark Todd County, Gravesite of Supreme Private Building the American McReynolds House; Rice Open to public None 

McReynolds Elkton 

Court justice 

Economy; Working and R. T. Martin Tobacco 

Gravesite 


experience 

Companies 

James Clark Todd County, Two-story frame house of Private Building the American McReynolds Gravesite; Unknown The justice was influential 

McReynolds House Elkton 

Supreme Court justice 

Economy; Working Rice and R. T. Martin 

in declaring tobacco trust, 

People; tobacco- Tobacco Companies 

which led to Black Patch 

related experience 

Tobacco wars being found 

unconstitutional. 

Robert Penn Warren Todd County, One-story brick house Private Vernacular 

Unknown Open to public Birthplace of Pulitzer 

birthplace Guthrie 

Architecture 

prize- winning author. 

Downtown Guthrie Todd County, Was host to massive Various Tobacco-related Night Riders-related sites Unknown None 

Guthrie 

association rally of 

25,000-30,000 people in 

early 20th century 

experience 

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Allensville Festival Todd County, Festival started by freed None Cultural Diversity: Unknown Unknown None 

Allensville slaves lasts a full week, 

ending on August 8. 

Includes baseball game, 

barbecue, etc. 

race issues 

Jefferson Davis Todd County, Obelisk 351 feet high Daughters of the Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public, None 

Monument Fairview marks Confederate 

president’s gravesite 

Confederacy 

elevator to top 

Ben Bristow Todd County, Gates of birthplace Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites No visitor services None 

Birthplace Elkton 

Fort Smith Livingston County, Union Civil War fort on Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Potential for Fort was used as a training 

Smithland Cemetery Hill in 

museum to house ground for Union troops. 

Smithland 

finds of 

The townspeople, although 

archeological dig. siding with the Confederacy, 

did not protest, in 

order to save their town 

from destruction. 

Smithland First Livingston County, Church that survived the Private Spirituality; People Unknown Unknown None 

Baptist Church Smithland floods of 1913 and 1937. 

versus Nature 

The Old Bank Livingston County, Church built in 1907 Private Spirituality; Unknown Unknown Used as Bank of Albany, 

Smithland 


New York, in filming of 

Values: movies 

How the West was Won. 

The Smith Mansion Livingston County, 10,000-square-foot home Private Expressing Cultural Unknown Has been opened to Built in place of a 

Smithland that is a replica of 

Values: television 

local people in the renovated home ca. 1940. 

Southfork, the Dallas 

estate. 

past 

The Buzzard’s Livingston County, Gazebo Built in place of Unknown Vernacular 

Unknown Open to the public This gathering place has 

Roost 

Smithland Cottonwood Tree to offer 

Architecture 

been featured in the Balti- 

shelter to local gatherings. 

more Sun as a site of local 

color. Men gather to tell 

stories and play checkers; 

there is a guest register. 

The Gazebo was named 

after a railroad that ran 

along the river in the late 

1800s. 

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DELTA 

Brimstone Corner Livingston County, Saloon, site of a popular Unknown History; Cultural 

Smithland local legend 

Diversity 

Bell Tavern Livingston County, 

Smithland 

Statue of Henry 

Clay 

Livingston County, 

Smithland 

Massey House Livingston County, 

Smithland 

Dallum-Bush House Livingston County, 

Smithland 

Old Methodist 

Church 


Smithland 

Inn built in 1815 Private Expressing Cultural 

Values: literature; 

History; Mississippi 

River 

Statue carved from tree 

under which Henry Clay 

held court 

Oldest residence in 

Smithland 


Values; History 

Private History; Cultural 

Diversity: race issues 

1839 house Private Civil War; Slavery; 

Cultural Diversity: 

race issues 

1848 church Private Spirituality; People 

versus Nature; 

Slavery; Race Issues, 

Man against Nature, 

Spirituality 

204 

RELATION TO VISITOR COMMENTS 


Unknown Unknown Legend says that patrons of 

the saloon were drugged 

and killed, then slid 

through a trap door to the 

doctor next door, who 

performed experiments and 

had the bodies buried on 

Cumberland Island by a 

slave. 

Unknown Open to public Charles Dickens, Clara 

Barton, John James Audubon, 

Aaron Burr, Henry 

Clay, and Lew Wallace 

visited here. Purportedly 

was the model for the inn 

in Great Expectations. 

Unknown Open to public Statue carved from “Judge 

Elm,” tree where hangings 

were carried out in 19th 

century. Carved by Kenneth 

Cruse of Mexico, KY. 

Civil War sites Unknown Legend says this house, 

which contains a trap door 

in a closet leading to a 

tunnel, was part of the 

Underground Railroad. 

Civil War sites Unknown Slaves were housed in back 

part of house. First Livingston 

County Court Clerk’s 

office was here. During 

Civil War, was known as 

“Blount Hodge’s Country 

Club,” because of parties 

held there. 

Unknown Unknown Originally had balcony for 

slaves. Destroyed by force 

in 1880s; rebuilt using 

former walls and foundation. 

Survived 1937 flood, 

which came to building 

roof.


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Davis House/Rudd Livingston County, 1840 house Private Vernacular 

Unknown Unknown House once occupied by 

House 

Smithland 

Architecture; 

devout baseball fan Katie 


Davis Love, who became 


reclusive during baseball 

season and had groceries 

sent to her room in a basket 

on a string. House has a 

“safe room” upstairs with 

only entrance a staircase 

from parents’ room. 

Pippin Cabin Livingston County, 1843 log cabin within a Unknown Vernacular 

Unknown Visitor Center for Legend says cabin was 

Smithland frame house, restored 

Architecture 

Smithland once used for gambling and 

a man was killed over a 

craps dispute. 

Lucy Jefferson Livingston County, Gravesite of Thomas Public History Unknown Unknown Legend around family was 

Lewis gravesite Smithland Jefferson’s sister. 

the subject of a Robert 

Penn Warren book. 

Coil House Hopkins County, 1835 two-story Federal Private Expressing Cultural Old ship was owned by Unknown Oldest home in Madison- 

Madisonville house 

Values: family Matthew Lyon’s brother. 

ville. It is owned by son of 

Chittendon Lyon, for 

whom Lyon county was 

named. 

Smith Dulin House Hopkins County, 1904 two-story house Private Vernacular 

Unknown Unknown Built by owner of a local 

Madisonville 


department store. Used for 

the American 

a WPA project from 1938 

Economy 

to 1941. 

East Broadway Hopkins County, 1884 School building, Private Education Unknown Unknown Housed Madisonville 

School 

Madisonville now a private residence. 

Normal School from 1884 

to 1907, then became East 

Broadway School. Closed 

in 1925; restored in 1975. 

Hockersmith House Hopkins County, 1881 French Mansard Private Architecture; Civil Other Civil War sites; L. Unknown Capt. L. D. Hockersmith, 

Madisonville style house 

War 

D. Hockersmith gravesite 

who built the house, helped 

plan escape of John Hunt 

Morgan from penitentiary 

in Columbus, Ohio. French 

mansard style is rare in this 

part of the country. 

Captain L. D. Hopkins County, 1913 gravesite of CSA Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites; Open to public Grave of CSA captain who 

Hockersmith West Madisonville captain 

Hockersmith House 

escaped from penitentiary 

gravesite 

in Columbus, Ohio. 

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Old Ship. Hopkins County, 1857 home of Chittenden Private Vernacular 

Home of Matthew Lyon, Unknown None 

Madisonville Lyon, son of Chittenden 

Architecture; Chittenden’s brother, is 

Lyon, for whom Lyon 

Expressing Cultural also on the survey. 

County was named. 


Ruby House Hopkins County, Mid-1800s house Private Vernacular 

Unknown Unknown Built for its owner by a 

Madisonville 

Architecture 

lumber company, this was 

the first home in Madisonville 

to have electricity. 

Hammack House Hopkins County, 1890 Victorian house Private Vernacular 

Unknown Unknown Used as a boarding house 

Madisonville 

Architecture; Cultural 

in 19-teens; later rented by 

Diversity; Building the 

Congressman David 


Kincheloe, who had been a 

federal judge. 

Morton House Hopkins County, 1857 log cabin made into Private Expressing Cultural Unknown Unknown Sold in 1979 after being 

Madisonville a neo-classical house 

Values: Family; Ver- 

owned by same family for 

nacular Architecture; 

over 100 years. Leisure use 

Civil War; Spirituality 

by Civil War soldiers. 

Weathers House Todd County, Built in 1882 Private Building the American Unknown Unknown Named for owner of 

Elkton 

Economy 

Weathers drug store, early 

1900s, which still stands in 

town. Also served as 

boardinghouse. 

Stagecoach Inn Todd County, Tiny 1833 inn Private Cultural Diversity; Unknown Unknown Served stagecoach line in 

Town 

Civil War; Expressing 

early 1800s. Local legend 


says building was used as a 

music 

Confederate hospital 

during Civil War. Possibly 

birthplace of African 

blackface minstrel. 

Bethel Baptist Todd County, Site for this church was a Private Spirituality; Civil War Jefferson Davis Unknown None 

Church 

Fairview gift from Jefferson Davis 

monument, also in 

Fairview 

Garth House Todd County, 1880s Victorian house Private Civil War; Expressing Unknown Unknown Built by Civil War veteran 

Trenton 

with brick facade 


Dudley Garth. Cemetery 

remaining, which is a 

behind house, not adjacent. 

rarity. 

Windows are low to ground 

because funerals were held 

here and caskets were slid 

in and out of windows. 

Trigg County Log Trigg County, 1867 log cabin moved to Chamber of Vernacular 

Unknown Open to public Home of saxophonist Boots 

Cabin Museum, Cadiz 

center of town 

Commerce Architecture; History; 

Randolph 

Boots Randolph 


home 

Values: music 

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Kelsey Calhoun, Trigg County, For TVA, demonstrates Private Building the American Unknown Open to giving None 

Main Street Cadiz 

operation of miniature 


demonstration for 

Moonshiner 

moonshine still mounted 

on plywood. Also proof 

tester. 

Diversity 

Park Service. 

Barlow House Ballard County, Museum in turn-of-the- Unknown Architecture; General Unknown $2 admission; open 200 years of memorabilia 

Museum 

near Paducah century Victorian house 

History 

Fridays, Sundays, 

and Mondays 1-4 

p.m. 

of town’s founding family 

Wickliffe Mounds Ballard County, Museum on site of Indian Unknown Native American Unknown $3.50 admission; Features two large 

Research Center Wickliffe mounds from 1000-1350 

issues 

open Mar.-Nov. 9- rectangular platform 

4:30; accessible for mounds used in 

disabled 

ceremonies. 

R. N. Henson Fulton County, Contains largest private Private Building the American Unknown Can see by Home of original leather 

Broom-maker’s Cayce 

collection of broom- 

Economy 

appointment. Not Kentucky cabin broom. 

Museum 

making equipment in 

accessible for 

country. 

persons with 

disabilities. 

Warren Thomas Fulton County, Antebellum black church Unknown Cultural Diversity Unknown By appointment None 

Museum 

Hickman housing local African- 

American history items 

Hardin Southern Marshall County, Trip on 100-year-old rail Unknown Building the American Unknown Fee $10, May 27- None 

Railroad Nostalgia Hardin 

line; 18 miles, 2 hours 

Economy; Recreation 

Oct 29, Sats. and 

Train 

Suns. 1 p.m. and 

3:30 p.m. 

Don F Pratt Christian County, Museum of 101st U.S. government Aviation Unknown Admission free; Features helicopters, other 

Museum 

Hopkinsville Airborne division, the 

open daily 9:30- aircraft 

“Screaming Eagles” 

4:30 

Kentucky Opry Marshall County Music show featuring Unknown Expressing Cultural Unknown 8 p.m. Fris. and None 

country, bluegrass, and 

Values: music 

Sats. year- round, 

gospel 

$8.50 

John James Henderson County, Museum featuring State Natural Environment Unknown Fee $4; open 10-5 None 

Audubon State Park Henderson collection of famed 

daily; closed 

naturalist 

Thanksgiving; 

access for people 

with disabilities 

Pennyroyal Area Christian County. Museum contains Night Unknown Cultural Diversity; Trail of Tears 

Fee $2 ; open M-F None 

Museum 

Hopkinsville Riders artifacts, Native 

Expressing Cultural commemorative site; 8:30-4:30, Sat. 10- 

American art; Jefferson 

Values: art; Civil War; Night Riders; Civil War 3 

Davis possessions. 

tobacco-related 

experience 

sites 

Broadbent’s Trigg County, Ham festival N/A Expressing Cultural Unknown Visitors welcome Boasts “World’s largest” 

Country Ham Cadiz 

Values: food 

country ham and biscuit 

Festival 

festival 

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Henry Cornelius Trigg County, Gravesite Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public; Grave of U.S. representa- 

Burnett Gravesite Cadiz KY 

could be part of tive from Kentucky and 

Civil War gravesite senator in Confederate 

tour 

Congress. East end 

cemetery. 

Union County Union County, Museum with local Union County Expressing Cultural Trail of Tears 

Unknown None 

Historical Society Morganfield artifacts and Native Historical Values: art; Native Commemorative site 

and Museum 

American art 

Society American issues 

Courthouse Lawn Union County, Site of Abraham Lincoln’s City History Similar to Judge Elm in Open to public None 

Morganfield only political speech given 

in native state. 

Smithland 

Camp Breckinridge Union County U.S. Army base U.S. government Military History; Unknown Unknown Base housed largest POW 


camp in U.S. during World 

Recreation 

War II. This location is 

also where Jackie Robinson 

began his baseball 

career in 1944. 

Cale Young Rice Webster County, Home of local poet and Unknown Expressing Cultural Unknown Open to public Rice wrote a number of 

House 

Dixon 

his philanthropist wife, 


poems, including, “Bridg- 

Leban Lace Rice 


ing the Years,” “The 

Passionate Follies,” “Mrs. 

Wiggs of the Cabbage 

Patch.” 

Battle of Burt Mill Webster County, Site of first Civil War Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown None 

Vanderburg Battle in Kentucky 

Maplewood Graves County, Statues of members of the Unknown Expressing Cultural Maplewood Cemetery Open to public; Much folklore and legend 

Cemetery: Mayfield Henry Wooldridge family 

Values: family, 

walking tour of surround the history of this 

Wooldridge 

carved in Italian marble 

vernacular art 

cemetery monument, “the strange 

Monuments 

and sandstone 

procession that never 

moves.” 

Maplewood Graves County, Slab describes death of Unknown Civil War Maplewood Cemetery Open to public; None 

Cemetery: Civil Mayfield Henry B. Hicks in 1864-- 

walking tour of 

War Execution 

executed in Mayfield by 

Union Army 

cemetery 

Maplewood Graves County, Gravesite of first female Unknown Cultural Diversity Maplewood Cemetery Open to public; None 

Cemetery: Lois Mayfield sheriff in Kentucky, 

gender issues; 


Roach gravesite 

maybe first in America 


cemetery 

Maplewood Graves County, Eleven people in one Unknown Tragedy Maplewood Cemetery Open to public; None 

Cemetery: Mass Mayfield family killed in a 1921 


Burial 

house fire were buried 

together. 

cemetery 

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Maplewood Graves County, Gravesite Unknown Civil War; History Maplewood Cemetery Open to public; 

Cemetery: Col. Mayfield 


Edward Crossland 

cemetery 

Starnes Barbecue McCracken 


Homeplace 1850 Lyon County, 

southern end of 

LBL 

Hopkinsville First Christian County, 

Presbyterian Church Hopkinsville 

Carnegie Library Christian County, 

Hopkinsville 

Latham Cottages Christian County, 

Hopkinsville. 

L & N Depot Christian County, 

Hopkinsville 

Dayton Building Christian County, 

Hopkinsville 

Alhambra Theatre Christian County, 

Hopkinsville 

Ferrell’s Snappy 

Service 

Christian County, 

Hopkinsville 

Pioneer Cemetery Christian County, 

Hopkinsville. 

Major League 

Training Camp 

Field 

Henry Bennett 

Gravesite 

Hopkins County, 

Dawson Springs 


Dycusburg 

Barbecue place 40 years 

old 

Living history farm with 

16 original log structures 


Values: food 

Unknown Tobacco-related 

experience 

209 

Unknown Restaurant, busy at 

lunch 

COMMENTS 

Edward Crossland was a 

colonel in the Confederacy 

and later a member of U.S. 

House of Representatives. 

Situated around a counter; 

serves pork, ham, and beef 

BBQ on toast, hot barbecue 

sauce. 

Night Riders sites Open to public Living history demonstrations 

of tobacco firing, 

plowing, and buttermaking. 

Church was used as a 

walking tour hospital during Civil War. 

Unknown Hopkinsville 

walking tour 

None 

1849 church Private Spirituality, Civil War Civil War Hopkinsville 

1913 Library designed by Unknown Education, Vernacular 

local architect 

Architecture 

Cottages Unknown Cultural Diversity; Unknown Hopkinsville 


Economy 

walking tour 

Train station served Unknown Building the American Unknown Hopkinsville 

Hopkinsville 1892-1971. 


walking tour 

1905 building Unknown Cultural Diversity; Unknown Hopkinsville 


Values 

walking tour 

First Building in 

Hopkinsviille with air 

conditioning 

Fast-food restaurant 

opened in 1936 

Cemetery. Last burial in 

1873. 

Location where Pittsburgh 

Pirates played spring 

training in 1910s 

Inscription on tombstone 

reads “Killed by the 

Nightriders.” 

Unknown Building the American 

Economy: 

technological 

advances 


Values: food 

Unknown Peopling Places; 


Private, but 

trying to be 

restored 


Values: sports, 

recreation 

Unknown Tobacco-related 

experience 


walking tour 


walking tour 


walking tour 

Unknown Hopes to be open to 

public 

First rental property in city, 

also first with running 

water, gas heat, and lighting. 

None 

Building was used for 

several readings by wellknown 

clairvoyant Edgar 

Cayce. 

None 

“Burger joint” still serves 

burgers today and is a town 

institution. 

Contains statue of to town 

founder, Bartholomew 

Wood, and 222 graves of 

settlers, including two 

Revolutionary War 

soldiers. 

None 

Night Riders sites Open to public Bennett was beaten but not 

killed by the Night Riders 

terrorist group.


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National Scouting Calloway County, Interactive museum telling Unknown Cultural Diversity; Unknown Admission, $5; State-of-the-art museum 

Museum 

Murray 

story of Boy Scouts. 

Education; Expressing 

open March contains a collection of 

Cultural Values: art 

through November Norman Rockwell art. 

McClean County McLean County Annual event, third N/A Civil War Civil War sites Open to public Each year the 1861 Battle 

Civil War Days 

weekend in May 

of Sacramento is recreated, 

wherein Gen. 

Nathan Bedford Forrest 

first used his famous 

flanking strategy. 

Historic Green and McLean County, Converted railroad bridge Unknown Building the American None Open to public Visitors can climb steps of 

Rough River Livermore first used in 1871. 


converted railroad bridge to 

overlook 

Natural Environment 

see the confluence of the 

Green and Rough Rivers. 

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Saturn Bar Orleans Parish, Neighborhood bar, which Private Peopling Places; Outside the French No assistance A great neighborhood 

New Orleans opened in 1947, is fes- 

Expressing Cultural Quarter; no other sites needed 

institution with amazing 

tooned with folk art and 

Values: art 

nearby or related 

folk art. It should be ac- 

beautiful neon. A great 

corded the same respect as 

example of vernacular 

other folkart environments 

creativity; the pictures on 

such as Finster’s Paradise 

the walls are worthy of a 

museum. 

Gardens. 

Fats Domino’s Orleans Parish, Legendary musician’s Private Expressing Cultural None Merely a drive-by Can drive by for a glimpse 

House 

New Orleans home, with opulent/tacky 


view is appropriate of his gaudy Cadillac and 

decor 

Vernacular 

Architecture 

home; do not disturb. 

St. Roch Cemetery Orleans Parish, Inspired by a yellow fever Private Spirituality; People Other New Orleans Open to public Should be preserved. 

New Orleans epidemic, church and 

cemetery pay homage to 

the patron saint of plagues 

and pestilence. Many claim 

to have been cured at the 

shrine on the site; crutches 

left there are testaments to 

their faith. Great cemetery 

for wandering. 

versus Nature cemeteries 

Faulkner House Orleans Parish, House where William Private Expressing Cultural Rowan Oak in Oxford, Easily enjoyed Small, but building is 

Books 

New Orleans Faulkner lived while 

writing his first novel. 

Bookstore offers many 

Faulkner rarities. 

Values: literature MS 

bookstore evocative of Faulkner 

Napoleon House Orleans Parish, Built in 1797 and intended Private Architecture; History French Quarter Thriving business A beautiful dump. 

New Orleans as a refuge for French 

emperor Napoleon, 

crumbling bar/restaurant 

evokes New Orleans of old. 

Rock ‘n’ Bowl Orleans Parish, Bowling alley built in Private Expressing Cultural Has no peers Large dance floor Bowling and great music 

New Orleans 1941, home to live zydeco 

Values: music 

but only 18 are concurrent. This is 

and New Orleans music 

bowling lanes New Orleans far from the 

Wednesday through 

Saturday nights 

tourist crush. 

Cormier’s Cock Acadia Parish, Barnlike structure that Private Recreation: gambling; None Very accessible; Although some people find 

Pit 

Cankton 

offers an old-fashioned 

Cruelty to Animals 

open November this activity objectionable, 

cockfight most Saturday 

nights. Most easily 

accessible pit in area. 

through July. it is legal in Louisiana. 

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Jim Bowie St. Landry Parish, House belonging to a black Public History; Expressing None Easily accessed Strange location, but 

Museum Opelousas woman, contains Bowie 

knives and relics 


compelling little museum. 

Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki St. Landry Parish, Large, welcoming zydeco Private Expressing Cultural Nearby Opelousas sites, Very friendly Less rustic than Richard’s, 

Zydeco Club Opelousas club opened in 1947 

Values: music including Richard’s Club 

but equally large and 

(zydeco); Cultural 

Diversity 

welcoming. 

Richard’s Club St. Landry Parish, Tattered wood frame Private Expressing Cultural Slim’s in Opelousas Open most Building seems in danger 

Zydeco Club Lawtell 

building offering live local 

Values: music 

weekends; large bar of falling down when band 

and national acts 


Diversity 

starts to really rock. 

Borgue’s Cajun St. Landry Parish, Country Cajun dance hall Private Expressing Cultural Slim’s and Richard’s Far off the beaten Very hard to find. 

Dance Hall Lewisburg with music every Saturday 

Values: music 

(Cajun); Cultural 

Diversity 

path 

Liberty Theatre Acadia Parish, Beautiful old theater now Unknown Expressing Cultural Not far from Fred’s in 800-seat auditorium Must-see auditorium. 

Eunice 

houses the “Cajun Grand 

Values: music Mamou 

in downtown Good introduction to 

Ole Opry” each Saturday 


Eunice 

Cajun music culture for 

night. 

Diversity 

tourists unable or unwilling 

to go to the clubs. 

Eunice Museum Acadia Parish, Housed in old train depot, Public Peopling places; Liberty Theatre Well set up for Excellent small-town 

Eunice 

museum depicts local 


tourists 

museum. Heavy emphasis 

music, Mardi Gras, and 


on tourist-pleasing dis- 

other histories 


plays. 

Dup’s Lounge Acadia Parish, Local dive featuring live Private Expressing Cultural See Fred’s in nearby Live music on Old line local dance hall 

Eunice 

Cajun music 

Values: music Mamou 

Saturday mornings 


from 9 a.m. till 

Diversity; Community 

[time not in orig.] 

Small but 

hospitable to guests 

Fred’s Lounge Evangeline Parish, Windowless bar known for Private Expressing Cultural See Dup’s Small but An amazing place to 

Mamou 

live Cajun music radio 

Values: music 

accustomed to experience Cajun joie de 

broadcast on Saturday 

(Cajun); Community 

tourists. Open only vivre. 

mornings. 

on Saturdays from 

9 a.m. till noon. 

Estherwood Rice Jefferson Davis One of a few rice Private Building the American None Not set up to Offers a good look a the 

Mill 

Parish, Elton processors that allow tours. 


handle crowds, but ancient milling process. 

Also of note are old- 

will accommodate 

fashioned cotton rice bags. 

visitors. Open only 

summer and 

autumn. 

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Oil and Gas Park Jefferson Davis Replica of state’s first oil Public Resource Extraction; None Merely a view of A museum dedicated to 

Parish, Jennings well 


the well is suffi- Louisiana oil culture 

Economy: oil and gas 

cient, but interpretation 

would be 

welcome. 

would be welcome. 

Brimstone Calcasieu Parish, Museum commemorates Public Resource Extraction; None Minor attraction is Great small-town museum. 

Museum Sulphur 

development of Frasch 


well set up for 

process for mining sulfur 

Economy: chemical 

visitors 

and the way the town of 

Sulphur developed 

industry 

Garyville Timber St. John the Baptist Museum depicting birth Private Resource Extraction; River Road tour Minimal resources Could be expanded. 

mill Museum Parish, Garyville and death of a company 

Peopling Places; 

hamper efforts. 

town. Most of museum 


consists of exhibits on 

Economy: timber 

timber industry. 

industry 

Center for Lafourche Parish, Small exhibit devoted to Public Building the American 

Although facility is None 

Traditional Boat Thibodaux early and traditional boat 

Economy: river 

well-maintained, 

Building 

building; visitors also can 

commerce; Transpor- 

interpretation could 

see boat repairs and recontation; 

Recreation 

be expanded. Staff 

structions. Emphasis on 

too busy with 

local styles. 

research to accommodate 

many visitors. 

Bonnet Care St. Charles Parish, Good look at massive Public People versus Nature; River Road tour Drive-through Visitors must know what 

Spillway - River Road north of floodgate and levee system 

Managing Natural 

observation of to look for or site is 

Roadway I-310 

as an engineering miracle. 

Resources 

levee system. Part 

of the story of 

control of river, but 

difficult to convey. 

meaningless. 

El Sido’s Dance Lafayette Parish, Large zydeco club with Private Expressing Cultural Other zydeco halls, such Very welcoming, Everybody dances. 

Hall 

Lafayette music nearly every week- 

Values: music as Slim’s and Richard’s no need to change a Nobody claps. Surend; 

features national acts 


bit, but caution is rounding neighborhood is 

as well as local talent. 

Diversity 

advised in this 

neighborhood. 

questionable. 

Bonfire Museum St. James Parish, Museum dedicated to Public Spirituality; Building River Road tour Quaint, informative Could be expanded. 

River Road, north culture of St. James parish, 

the American 

museum 

of Route 20. with emphasis on lumber 

Economy: lumber 

industry and tradition of 

industry, agriculture; 

Christmas bonfires along 


levee 

Values: traditional 

celebrations 

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Festival of the St. James Parish, Festival each year the Public Expressing Cultural River Road tour Awe-inspiring A must see. More publicity 

Bonfires River Road, weekend before winter 

Values: traditional 

pyres of flames. is needed. 

between Gramercy solstice; tradition of more 

celebrations; Cultural 

and Donaldsonville than 200 years of lighting 

huge bonfires on levee. 

Recent themes have 

reflected Cajun and popular 

culture. 

Diversity 

First Acadian St. James Parish, Roadside Marker Unknown Peopling Places; River Road tour; possibly Marker suffices. Interesting juxtaposition 

Settlement on near Vacherie 

Cultural Diversity; ties in with other Cajun 

because marker is across 


River Transport sites 

street from national strategic 

petroleum facility. 

Lafourche Parish Lafourche Parish, One of few antebellum Public Architecture; None NA Could be incorporated as 

Courthouse Thibodaux courthouses 


part of a walking tour of 

Values; Community 

entire town of Thibodaux. 

Reserve-Edgard St. John the Baptist Archaic ferry still in Public Building the American River Road tour Ferry 

Unusual juxtaposition of 

Ferry 

Parish, River Road operation 

Economy: river 

accommodates old and new, because visi- 

transport 

automobiles. ors crossing river on arhaic 

ferry can see a nuclear 

power plant. 

National Hansen’s Iberville Parish, Former leper colony, Public Medical history; River Road tour Visitor services are Beautiful complex of 

Disease Center River Road, north isolated for fear of alarming 

social ostracization 

in doubt. buildings. 

of Carville nearby residents 

Barthel’s Country Ascension Parish, 115-year old country store Private Vernacular 

River Road tour Good place to stop Quaint, little changed in 

Store 

Sunshine 


the American 

Economy 

for a cold drink recent years. 

Plaquemine Locks Iberville Parish Museum, park, and visitor Public River Transport; See other locks and levee Excellent look at Good point of departure 

State 

Plaquemine center 

People versus Nature system 

how river is for tour of entire town of 

Commemorative 

Area 

controlled Plaquemine. 

Bourgeoise Meat Terrebonne Parish, Traditional meat market Private Building the American Near Thibodaux Place to stop for a Offers example of tradi- 

Market 

Schriever owned by three genera- 


snack. 

tional butcher’s trade. Beef 

tions of same family. 


jerky a specialty. 

Le Beau Petit Iberia Parish, Museum dedicated to the Public Building the American Nearby sugar cane mills Well-documented Good video done by 

Musee 

Jeanrette history of the sugar cane 


look at sugar cane Center for Louisiana 

industry. 

as a cash crop Studies. 

Louisiana Terrebonne Parish, Marine Research facility Public Natural Resources: NA Off the beaten path Good video overview of 

Universities Cocodrie with display and video 

wetlands ecoculture, 

but worth seeking wetlands environment 

Marine 

overview of wetlands 

fish, wildlife 

out 

Consortium 

wildlife. 

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Wendell-Williams St. Mary Parish, Museum dedicated to Unknown Building the American None Video available Well operated small-town 

Memorial Patterson growth of air flight in 

Economy: aviation; 

museum. 

Aviation Museum 

southern U.S. and 

Louisiana. Special 

emphasis on speed trials. 

Technology 

Sterling Sugar St. Mary Parish, Old-style sugar mill Private Agriculture; Resource Other mills Open to visitors None 

Mill 

Franklin 

Extraction; Working 

only on Saturday 

people 

mornings 

Konriko Rice Mill Iberia Parish, New One of oldest mills in the Private Agriculture; Building Rice and cane mills Well set up for Visitors will be covered 

Tour and Store Iberia 

area. 

the American 

visitors; admission with a cloud of rice dust. 

Economy 

charged, video 

shown. Gift shop 

also available. 

Grave of William Iberia Parish, New Grave of early jazz great, Private Cultural Diversity; Music Heritage tour; A marker should be Occasionally pilgrims 

Geary “Bunk” Iberia 

African-American trumpet 

Expressing Cultural Modern Music Center placed here. Born leave offerings at grave- 

Johnson, 

player who may have 

Values: music (jazz); 

1879 in New site. Many legendary 

taught Louis Armstrong. 

African-American 

Orleans to former performers of the early 

experience 

slaves. 

jazz era were of Cajun 

origin. 

Clifton Chenier’s Iberia Parish, Grave of the “king” of Private Expressing Cultural Clifton’s Club Grave may still be There should be better 

Grave 

Loreauville zydeco music 

Values: music 

unmarked. Located commemoration. 


parallel to Veret 

Diversity 

grave. 

Clifton’s Club Iberia Parish, Home club of late “king” of Private Expressing Cultural Chenier’s grave Infrequently open Very rural, very hard to 

Loreauville zydeco music. Will 

Values: music 

find 

accommodate 700 people. 


Diversity 

Glenwood Sugars Assumption Parish, Processor of unrefined Private Building the American Other mills for rice and Can call for tour None 

Factory Tour Napoleonville sugar. Plant tour available 

Economy: sugar cane; 

Agriculture; Working 

People 

cane 

Abita Springs St. Tammany Former resort site; two- Public Natural Resources; Abita Springs Brewery Adjacent to Uncertain whether springs 

Pavilion Parish, Abita tiered pavilion from heyday 

Recreation 

nearby 

National Historic are still operational. 

Springs 

is visible. 

District 

Hamilton’s Lafayette Parish, Large rural zydeco hall Private Expressing Cultural El Sido’s Dance Hall; Large and None 

Zydeco Hall Lafayette 

Values: music 


Diversity 

other zydeco-related sites accommodating 

Edwin Epps Avoyelles Parish, Home of Edwin Epps, Private Cultural Diversity; NA House is well It is gratifying that North- 

House 

Bunkie 

planter who owned 

Slavery; Expressing 

restored and ready rup is celebrated, as well 

Solomon Northrup, author 


for visitors. as plantation edifice. 

of Twelve Years A Slave. 

literature; Agriculture 

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Bayou Folk Rapides Parish, Built 1813 by founder of Unknown Expressing Cultural 

Outbuildings also Well documented. 

Museum Cloutierville Cloutierville; building was 


can be seen, as well 

home to author Kate 

Agriculture 

as good collection 

Chopin in 1850s 

of Chopin effects. 

Le Petit Paris Lafayette Parish, Small-town museum with Public Expressing Cultural Near Evangeline Oak Already developed Tells stories of both high 

Museum St. Martinville Mardi Gras costumes and 

Values; Building the 

and low culture. 

items that belonged to early 

American Economy; 

settlers. 

Recreation 

Evangeline Downs Lafayette Parish, Traditional horse-racing Private Gambling, Recreation NA Open April- Provides good taste of 

near Lafayette track 

September; races, 

Friday through 

Monday 

Cajun culture. 

Sunset Game Club St. Landry Parish, Cock-fighting club Private Gambling Cormier’s Cock Pit; Visitors should be Can see cocks being 

north of Sunset 

Circle Club Cock Pit aware of this housed and trained on 

activity, although roadsides; houses are 

many may be pyramid-shaped metal 

offended. structures. 

Waterford Three St. Charles Parish, Nuclear reactor and Public Resource Extraction Water-powered mills and Engaging displays Good juxtaposition of river 

Nuclear Power Taft 

interactive visitor center 

other industrial sites and exhibits. Well and nuclear power. 

Plant 

documented by 

power company. 

Airline Motors St. Charles Parish, Classic deco structure built Private Transportation: Compare to river as mode Restaurant is open Sight alone is enough; 

Restaurant near New Orleans, when Airline Highway was 

airlines; Architecture of transportation 24 hours however it seems that a 

main road between Baton 

marker designating archi- 

Rouge and New Orleans. 

tectural style would be 

appropriate. 

Country Music Lincoln Parish, State-sponsored museum State Expressing Cultural NA Not well publicized Funding is being 

Museum / Rebel Marthasville featuring country music 

Values: country 

but well worth a increased. 

State 

history in northern 

music; Civil War; 

visit 

Commemorative 

Louisiana and the South; 

Recreation 

Area 

amphitheater also on the 

site. 

Oakley Plantation West Feliciana Three-story house built in Public Natural Resources; None Outbuildings (a Beautiful home, but con- 

Parish, St. 1799. Naturalist-artist John 


rarity) exist. nection to Audubon is 

Francisville James Audubon painted 

Values: art; Agricul- 

more compelling. 

here while tutoring 

plantation children. 

ture. 

Virgin’s Island Assumption Parish, Statue of Virgin Mary that Unknown Spirituality; Expres- None Can drive by; Statue sits in the bay; 

Bat Pierre Part was spared in 1882 flood 

sing Cultural Values: 

interpretation visitors need to be aware 

that destroyed church and 

statuary; People 

needed 

of it to be able to see it. 

much of Pierre Part. Statue 

was placed on island in bay 

by residents who believed 

that Mary had saved them. 

versus Nature 

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Ara Bontemps Rapides Parish, Home of African-American Public Cultural Diversity; Kate Chopin’s house in Small but welcom- Each room is dedicated to 

Home 

Alexandria poet, author, scholar, 

African-American Cloutierville 

ing museum; well- a different phase in the 

children’s writer. Also 

experience; Vernacudocumenteddis- 

author’s life. 

functions as a cultural 

lar Architecture; 

plays on Bontemps’ 

center. 


Values: literature 

life. 

Mitcham Farms Lincoln Parish, Huge orchard where one Private Building the American Sugar cane and rice sites Must call first for a Orchard northeast of 

Peach Orchard Reston 

can observe large-scale 

Economy; 

tour; not set up for Reston may be hard to 

agricultural business 

Agriculture; Working 

tours but will find; should call first. 

People 

accommodate any 

size group. 

Autrey House Lincoln Parish, Oldest “dogtrot” house in Public Vernacular Architec- NA Rustic but authentic Some of the original 

Dubach 

Louisiana; built in 1870 

ture; Early settlers 

family furniture is on 

display. Built by Absalom 

Autrey. 

Lincoln Parish Lincoln Parish, Typical parish museum; Public Architecture; Expres- None Furnishings are Folk art murals, possibly 

Museum Reston 

murals on wall are 


typical of small- over 100 years old, depict 

distinctive. 

mural art 

town life life in Reston from its 

founding. 

Camp Reston Lincoln Parish, Camp that housed up to Public Military History: None Will be developed Art from some of the 

Grambling 4,000 prisoners of war, 

World War II 

for visitors former prisoners is being 

primarily from Germany 

solicited; should be a great 

and Italy, during World 

War II. 

attraction when finished. 

Delta Aviation Ouachita Parish, Museum devoted to crop- Unknown Transportation: avia- Wendell Aviation Unknown None 

Museum Monroe 

dusting and other early 

impetus for aviation in 

Louisiana 

tion; Agriculture Museum 

Poverty Point W. Carroll Parish, Indian Mounds from 700- Public Prehistory; 

NA Viewing platform Well-preserved architec- 

Epps 

1,700 B.C. 

Spirituality; Native 

on the site tural digs and interpretive 

Americans 

exhibit. 

African-American Ouachita Parish, Exhibitions depicting Private Slavery; Cultural River Road Museum; Ara Small; open Small-town museum 

Museum Monroe 

African-American life in 

Diversity: African- Bontemps Home irregular hours 

this region from settlement 

Americans; Agricul- 

to present 

ture, Civil Rights 

Movement 

Grant’s Canal E. Carroll Parish, Canal dug by Gen. U.S. Unknown Civil War; Military Arlington Plantation, Drive-by attraction; None 

Lake Providence Grant’s men in attempt to 

history; River where Grant stayed, is more interpretation 

seize of Vicksburg. 

Transport 

nearby 

may be called for. 

Cotton Museum E. Carroll Parish, Museum depicting Public Agriculture, Working Mill tours Open Wednesdays Should be supported by 

Lake Providence agricultural economy; huge 

People 

through Fridays farm equipment 

display of farm equipment 

from the past is notable. 

manufacturers. 

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Centenary State E. Feliciana Parish, Original site of State Public Education; Civil War; State Tours provided. Founded in 1825; used as a 

Commemorative Jackson 

College of Louisiana; 

Spirituality 

Open 9-5 daily. hospital during Civil War. 

Area 

offers exhibits on local 

history, documentation of 

early educational efforts. 

Homer 

Claiborne Parish, Courthouse was built in Public Civil War Various Civil War sites Interpretive aspect 1861 Confederate troops 

Courthouse Homer 

1861; continuing use since 

limited because still departed from courthouse; 

then. 

in use as a it is now a tradition for all 

courthouse troops to depart from 

courthouse. 

La Salle Museum La Salle Parish, Photographs detailing Private Resource Extraction Sulphur museum Open only Importance of lumber and 

Goodpine parish history housed in 

Wednesdays and oil industry is emphasized. 

1906 Goodpine Lumber 

Thursdays; well- 

Company building. 

staffed by volunteers. 

Traders’ Grant Parish, Frontier Village recreation Private Peopling Places; NA Recently opened to None 

Rendezvous Pollock 


public; information 

History 

interestingly 

displayed 

Freshwater Spring Grant Parish, Artesian spring used for Private Natural Resources NA Visitor services not This spring, initially used 

between 

years and still in use by 

needed. 

by Native Americans, is 

Georgetown and residents for drinking water 

still a good community 

Pollock 

resource. 

H. J. Smith and St. Tammany Hardware store operating Private Peopling Places; NA Owners are cordial Displays include a 20-foot 

Son Museum Parish, Covington continuously since 1876; 


to visitors; museum hand-carved pirogue and 

now both a hardware store 

Economy 

is but a small part an iron coffin. 

and a museum. 

of store. 

Joyce Wildlife Tangipahoa Parish, Well-maintained wooden Public Natural Resources: Swamp tours Trees and plants are Well documented. 

Management Area near Manchac nature walk in swamp 

animal and plant life 

labeled for a nature 

walk. 

Confederate Tangipahoa Parish, Museum displaying City sponsored Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public None 

Cemetery and Tangipahoa Confederate artifacts; 

Museum 

adjacent cemetery 

Mile Branch Washington Parish, Pioneer settlement with Unknown Peopling Places; Traders’ Rendezvous Well structured but None 

Settlement at fairgrounds cabins from mid-1800s 

Agriculture 

can seem a bit 

“touristy” 

Hungarian Settle- Livingston Parish, Largest rural Hungarian Unknown Cultural Diversity; NA Could be expanded Settled in 1890s by 

ment at Arpadhon south of Albany settlement in United States 

Agriculture; Resource 

approximately 1,500 

Extraction 

Magyar Hungarians. 

Louisiana Washington Parish, Small, well-maintained, Public Cultural Diversity: Poverty Point Well structured, but Adjacent to Pioneer 

Museum of Indian Bogalusa collection of Native 


hours of operation Museum. 

Experience 

American artifacts 

are difficult to 

establish 

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Bogue Lusa Pio- Washington Parish, Parish museum with Public Peopling Places; NA No real expansion Named for nearby body of 

neer Museum Bogalusa artifacts of early life 

Agriculture 

warranted water. 

Tammany Trace St. Tammany Rails-to-trails project to Private/Public Transportation; NA Documentation of Converted trail eventually 

Parish, various sites cover 31 miles; 9 miles 

Recreation 

flora and fauna will connect all towns in 

along old rail line between Abia Springs and 

along route could parish. 

Mandeville are now 

complete. 

be helpful. 

Northlake St. Tammany Nature trail near Public Natural Resources NA More funds needed None 

Museum and Parish, near Fountainbleau State Park 

to complete work. 

Nature Trail Mandeville 

Bonnie and Clyde Bienville Parish, Simple marker denotes the Public Working People; Law NA No visitor services; None 

Ambush site south of Mount spot where Texas Rangers 

Enforcement 

marker is only a 

Lebanon surprised the outlaws. 

few yards from 

road. 

American Rose Caddo Parish, America’s largest rose Private Recreation; NA Picnic facilities and None 

Center 

Greenwood garden, headquarters of 


gift shop; labels 

American Rose Society; 

Values: gardening 

give name, type, 

118 acres of pathways lined 

and heritage of 

with rosebushes. 

each bush; open 10- 

6 weekends; 9-6 

weekdays Apr.-Oct. 

Municipal Caddo Parish, 3,500-seat arena where Public Expressing Cultural Boomland; Frankie Jean’s Building still in Presley later appeared on 

Auditorium Shreveport “Louisiana Hayride” was 

Values: country Pik Quick 

use, not much the “Hayride” TV show in 

broadcast on KWKH radio. 

music; Recreation 

interpretive March 1955; he later ap- 

Elvis Presley’s first 

potential at the peared at a YMCA benefit 

appearance was in October 

moment 

at the fairgrounds in 

1954. 

December 1956. 

“Hayride” also helped 

launch Hank WiIlliams, 

Jim Reeves, Red Sovine, 

and Slim Whitman. 

Meadows Museum Caddo Parish, Museum featuring a one- Private Cultural Diversity: Yellow Valley Forge; Fully developed for French artist Jean 

of Art, on Cen- Shreveport man exhibit of Indochinese 

Indochinese; Margaret Harwell Art visitor use; open 1- Despujols traveled to 

tenary College 

art. 

Expressing Cultural Museum 

5 Tues.-Fri.; 2-5 Indochina in the 1930s and 

Campus 


Sat & Sun. captured its people and 

photography 

landscapes on canvas. He 

moved to Louisiana in 

1941. The Smithsonian 

displayed his works in 

1950. 

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Frankie Jean’s Pik Concordia Drive-through grocery Private Building the American Lea’s Lunch Room; Store can accom- Frankie Jean does not 

Quick 

Province, Ferriday operated by sister of Jerry 

Economy; Recreation; Shreveport Auditorium; modate three cars at display her brother’s 

Lee Lewis. 

Expressing Cultural Boomland 

a time; driver calls memorabilia in the store. 

Values: music 

out order as items 

are selected and 

placed in car. No 

other visitor services 

needed. 

Modern Music Acadia Parish, Pioneering recording studio Private Expressing Cultural Boomland; Shreveport Visitor services are Cajun musicians recorded 

Center and Crowley opened by Jay Niller in 

Values: music; Auditorium 

fully developed; here include Clifton Chen- 

Master-Trak 

1949 is still in business. 

Recreation; Building 

business already ier, Rusty and Doug Ker- 

Studio 

the American Econo- 

functions as a shaw, Jimmy “C” 

my: recording busi- 

museum of sorts. Newman, and Wayne 

ness 

Toups. These artists’ 

records may be purchased 

here. 

Mass Grave for Calcasieu Parish; Mass grave of more than Private People versus Nature Brimstone Museum No visitor services Hurricane Audrey slam- 

Hurricane Victims Lake Charles 200 victims of Hurricane 

needed; the simmed into Lake Charles on 

at Combre 

Audrey (1957). 

plicity of the June 28, 1957, killing over 

Memorial Park 

headstone speaks 500. Citizens today still 

Cemetery 

volumes. tend to compare all other 

events to that tragedy. 

Circle Club Calcasieu Parish Cock fights on Fridays and Private Gambling Cormier’s Cock Pit in Visitors welcome. Although some people find 

Cockpit 

Saturdays at a large, well- 

Cankton; Other cock Fee of $8-15 admits this activity objectionable, 

run establishment. People 

fighting sites 

one to back, where it is legal in Louisiana. 

come from all over the 

bleachers encircle 

South to participate. One of 

numerous cock 

the better and more 

fighting pits. Fights 

hospitable establishments 

start Sats. noon, 

of this type. 

Fri. nights 10 p.m., 

second week in 

October to first 

weekend in August. 

Food and drinks 

available. 

Dupuy’s Vermilion Parish, Restaurant serves famous Private Expressing Cultural Lea’s Lunch Room No possibilities for Joseph Dupuy sold 

Abbeville raw oysters, an Abbeville 

Values: food 

visitor services in shucked oysters in this 

tradition for over 100 years. 

near future, al- spot for 10 cents a dozen. 

Collection of newspaper 

though this site 

clippings of restaurant 

seems deserving of 

dating back to 1900. 

a plaque or marker. 

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Native American Terrebone Parish, Houma Indian settlement, Public Cultural Diversity: NA A future visitor None 

settlement south of Dulac home to Houma Nation 

Native American 

center would be 

tribal leader and many 

issues 

helpful; this 

artisans who make cane 

community needs 

baskets. Houma Nation is 

not federally recognized as 

a tribe; hence, this is not a 

reservation. Many Houma 

still speak a variety of 

archaic French. 

to be documented. 

Chitimacha Indian Terrebonne Parish, The Chitimacha are the Public/Private Cultural Diversity: Cowan cemetery; Houma Visitor center Reservation was estab- 

Reservation Charenton only Native American tribe 

Native American settlement 

maintained by Jean lished in 1925 and Chiti- 

native to Southern 

issues 

Lafitte State Park. macha became first fed- 

Louisiana that still resides 

erally recognized tribe in 

in the state. 

Louisiana. Native customs 

and lore have almost vanished; 

however, Chitimacha 

still make split cane 

baskets. 

Lejeune’s Bakery Iberia Parish, Bakery that has been in Private Expressing Cultural Dupuy’s Restaurant No visitor services Bakery also sells T-shirts 

Jeanerette business since 1884 offers 

Values: food 

needed; plaque with logo. 

only two food items: 

marking establish- 

French bread and gingerment’s 

longevity 

bread “stageplanks.” 

would be appreciated. 

Turn of the St. Mary Parish, House built in 1906 in Private Expressing Cultural Chretien Point Plantation Adequately devel- One of a few homes (not 

Century House Morgan City Morgan City. It was 

Values; Architecture 

oped as a museum. elegant palatial mansions) 

squarely in the path of the 

Weekdays 9-5; in an area open for tours. 

U.S. 90 bridge in 1970 and 

weekends 1 p.m. 

was moved a few blocks to 

present location. 

till close. 

The Great Wall St. Mary Parish- Corps of Engineers built Public People versus Nature Shot Tower site; Iron No visitor services Corps predicts that when 

Morgan City 21-foot-high wall to with- 

Furnace 

required; steps near Mississippi River eventustand 

great floods. When 

Brasher and Front ally changes course and 

Corps diverts water from 

Streets allow visi- flows into the Atchafalaya 

Mississippi River to the 

tors to climb wall River, Morgan City will be 

Atchafalaya River (to 

and view protected destroyed. 

prevent flooding New 

city, as well as 

Orleans), river water laps at 

homes not pro- 

the wall. 

tected by the wall 

(which flood 

periodically.) 

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Indian Mound Iberia Parish, Indian Mound. Only a Private Prehistory; Native Chitimacha Indian Another 

Loreauville mound in a grassy field 

American issues Reservation; Houma interpretive center 

remains. 

settlement 

should be erected. 

Adam’s Fruit 

Market 

Golden Ranch 

Plantation 

Louisiana Catalog 

Store 

Lafourche Parish, 

Matthews 


Gheens 


Cut Off 

Petit Corporal Lafourche Parish, 

Golden Meadow 

Laurel Valley 

Village 


near Thibodeaux 

Market open since 1939 

sells fresh local produce, 

cane syrup, honey, and an 

assortment of dry goods. 

Remains of a plantation. 

Many turn-of-the-century 

outbuildings remain, along 

with oldest brick slave 

cabin in southern Louisiana. 

Only building now 

open is the original 

plantation store. 

Nation’s biggest clearinghouse 

for material printed 

in state; also carries documents 

dealing with Cajun 

history. 

Boat, allegedly the oldest in 

the parish. Built in the mid- 

1880s, it remained in the 

Theriot family for 100 

years. First sail-equipped, 

then engine-powered. 

Defunct sugar plantation; 

one of only a few left with 

a variety of outbuildings, 

including slave quarters, 

overseer’s cabin, blacksmith 

shop, a crumbling 

mill. Buildings are preserved 

but have not been 

extensively renovated (see 



Values; Building the 


Private Early history; Slavery; 

Agriculture 

Private Building the American 

Economy 

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Dupuy’s; LeJeune’s 

Bakery 

No development 

necessary 

Laurel Valley Village Interpreted well by 

the Gheens 

Foundation 

La Poussiere dance hall Open Mon.-Sat 10 

a.m.-6 p.m. 

City Recreation Bayou Folk Museum Descriptive marker 

stands at site 

Private Local history; Cultural 

Diversity; Slavery; 


Economy 

Golden Ranch Plantation; 

River Road tour; 


Museum 

Open daily 10 a.m. 

- 4 p.m. Buildings 

are closed to foot 

traffic. Old General 

Store serves as 

visitor center and 

museum; features 

photographs and 

old farm equipment; 

local honey 

and cane syrup. 

COMMENTS 

Once was a living 

museum; 40 historic 

structures and countless 

artifacts were auctioned 

off at proprietor’s death. 

Owner of Adam’s is a 

taxidermist and proudly 

displays stuffed local 

fauna among produce. 

Also has ruins of an old 

sugar mill. 

This business caters to 

visitors. Site is important 

for anyone interested in 

Cajun culture. 

Boat was donated to the 

city in 1969. 

Was the most productive 

sugar plantation in the 

parish before Civil War. 

Plantation road leads past 

100-year-old laborer’s 

cabin and a wooden 

schoolhouse. This site 

offers visitors a good look 

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La Poussiere St. Martin Parish, Cajun dance hall Private Expressing Cultural Modern Music Center; None needed; peo- Walter Mouton and the 

near Breaux Bridge, 

Values: music, Cajun Master-Track Studios ple can dance and Scott Playboys have been 

culture; Recreation 

listen to Cajun playing here every Sat- 

music every Satururday night for 30 years. 

day from 8:30 p.m. Activities here are highly 

till everyone leaves. indicative of Cajun culture. 

Imperial Calcasieu Calcasieu Parish, Museum with a thorough Public Civil War Burnt Mill; Rolla Fully developed Museum ground belonged 

Museum Lake Charles collection of books, docu- 

Cemetery 

visitor services. to early settler Charles 

ments, and artifacts pertain- 

Open Tues.-Fri. 10 Sallier. Behind museum is 

ing to history of Calcasieu 

a.m.- 5 p.m. Tues.- a 300-year-old oak tree. 

Parish; includes a library, a 

Fri.; 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. 

reading room, and a few 

exhibits. Interesting 

collection of Civil War 

letters. 

Sat-Sun. 

Steene’s Syrup Vermilion Parish, Largest remaining syrup Private Cultural Diversity; Brimstone Museum, Rice No visitor services; C. S. Steene began the 

Mill 

Abbeville mill in area. Still belongs to 

People versus Nature Museum 

plant is still in op- mill in 1910 after a hard 

the original family. 

eration, and tours freeze threatened to ruin 

are no longer his sugar crop. This plant 

offered. 

is representative of the 

culture; there once were 

hundreds of sugar mills in 

southern Louisiana, and 

many families made their 

own syrup. 

Lafayette Museum Lafayette Parish, Museum built in 1800 by Public Cultural Diversity: Imperial Calcasieu Well maintained as None 

/Jean Mouton Lafayette town founder Jean Mou- 

Cajun settlers; Civil Museum; Louisiana a museum 

House 

ton. Stocked with original 

artifacts used by Acadian 

settlers: period furnishings, 

Civil War newspapers. 

War 

Catalog store 

Transylvania East Carroll Parish, Small grocery and general Private Cultural Diversity Lea’s Lunch Room; Open Mon.-Sat 6 Adjacent to the store is a 

General Store Transylvania store with a painting of 

Dupuy’s 

a.m. -6:30 p.m. white water tower emblaz- 

Dracula on window, with 

Interesting place to oned with a black bat. 

message, “We’re always 

buy a sandwich and Besides food and hard- 

glad to have new blood in 

various macabre ware, store sells rubber 

town.” 

items. 

bats, skeletons, skulls, and 

T-shirts saying “Transylvania, 

Louisiana.” 

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Tabasco Factory Iberia Parish, Avery Factory that produces Private Expressing Cultural Brimstone Museum; Rice Tours and an intro- Interesting tour to learn 

Island 

Tabasco sauce gives tours 

Values: food; Building Museum 

ductory movie ex- about a product that has 

and describes how sauce is 

the American 

plain how Tabasco come to symbolize Cajun 

made. 

Economy 

peppers are grown, culture in the mind of 

aged and made into America. To obtain salt 

fiery sauce. Visitors (used in sauce production), 

receive popular workers mine salt tunnels 

miniature bottles. beneath island surface. 

Statue of Hadrian Iberia Parish, New Statue sculpted in A.D. 130 Private Expressing Cultural Imperial Calcasieu Spotlighted at Hadrian ruled the Roman 

Iberia 

is 7 feet tall and weighs 

Values: art 

Museum; Snyder night; visitors look Empire from A.D. 117 to 

3,000 pounds. 

Memorial Museum at statue and then 138. Statue originally 

leave. 

stood in Rome, was taken 

to an English castle in 

1820, where it stayed until 

1961, when it was brought 

to New Iberia. 

Wildlife Gardens Iberia Parish, Avery Wildlife preserve populated Private Natural Resources; A Cajun Man’s Swamp Tours are one and Gift shop sells native 

Island 

with more than 500 animals 

Recreation 

Cruise 

one-half hours: crafts. Can see alligators, 

from southern Louisiana 

summer, 10 a.m., 1 turtles, otters, bobcats, etc. 

and 4 p.m.; Oct., 

10:30 a.m., 1:30 

and 3 p.m. Closed 

Sundays. Fee 

charged. Can handfeed 

some animals. 

Well-developed attraction. 

Snyder Memorial Morehouse Parish, Museum artifacts housed in NA Cultural Diversity: Imperial Calcasieu Open 9 a.m. -4:30 Separate carriage house 

Museum near Bastrop a brick building with a red 

Native Americans, Museum; Ford Museum; P.M. Mon.-Fri. holds old farm 

tile roof; separate carriage 

settlers; Agriculture Bayou Folk Museum 

implements, sidesaddles, 

house, gardens. This is an 

cotton scales, and a horse- 

amalgamation of cultural 

drawn car-riage. Visitors 

artifacts: Oriental rugs, 

should see that Southern 

clothing, and oak furniture 

culture was and is a broad 

along with cotton scales 

spectrum of many cultures, 

and Native American 

artifacts. 

races, and societies. 

Mount Olivet Rapides Parish, Church built in 1854, Private Spirituality/Civil War Kent House; St. Martin After obtaining Church dedicated by 

Chapel 

Alexandria surrounded by cemetery 

de Tours Church key, visitors can Bishop Leonidas Polk, 

with tombstones dating to 

tour church and who became a decorated 

1824. Church has Tiffany 

stroll through Confederate general. 

windows. Except for oak 

cemetery Church survived Civil War 

floor, structure is entirely 

because it served as Union 

native pinewood. 

headquarters. 

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Emy-Lou Ouachita Parish, Biedenharn family man- Private Spirituality Snyder Memorial Visitors can stroll WW II cut short opera 

Biedenharn Monroe 

sion contains rare bibles, 

Museum; Bayou Folk in gardens ( in career. On her return, her 

Foundation 

manuscripts, and musical 

Museum; Mount Olivet addition to 45- father gave her an original 

instruments. Garden out- 

Chapel 

minute house tour.) John Wycliffe bible. He 

side features piped music 

Site is highly began collecting bibles; 

and splashing fountains. 

developed. collection now includes 

World-renowned concert 

1730 Martin Luther bible, 

contralto Emy-Lou 

a bible edited by Thomas 

Biedenharn was forced to 

Jefferson, and a bible 

return to U.S. (see 

illustrated by Salvador 


Dali. 

Briarwood Natchitoches Former home of Caroline Private Working People; Kent House; Bayou Folk March, April, May, Trails wind through forest, 

Parish, near Dorman, first U.S. woman 

Natural Resources Museum 

August, and No- and curator conducts tours 

Natchitoches employed in forestry, now 

vember: Sats. 9-5; of the Dorman home. 

a 125-acre nature preserve 

Suns. Noon-5. 

Admission. Curator 

conducts tours of 

Dorman home. 

Layton Castle Ouachita Parish, Building c. 1814, with Private Cultural Diversity: Briarwood; Kent House; Visitors can sense Originally the house of 

Monroe 

grounds. Structure has a 

opulent lifestyles Lloyd Hall Plantation the opulent lifestyle Judge Henry Bry. House 

commanding tower, and an 

of family. gives an accurate glimpse 

arcaded gallery that gives it 

of lifestyle of Monroe’s 

a castle-like facade. Made 

of rose-colored bricks made 

on the grounds. 

prominent early citizens. 

Lloyd Hall Rapides Parish, Three-story building dat- Private Agriculture; Cultural Layton Castle; House supposedly Visitors can pick cotton or 

Plantation near Cheneyville ing to 1810 houses muse- 

Diversity 

Briarwood; Kent House haunted. Tours gather pecans. Twoum 

with vintage items. 

Tues.-Sat 10-4; Sun bedroom cottage for over- 

Also cotton, corn, soy- 

1-4 p.m. Overnight night stays is furnished 

beans, and cattle are raised 

stays in 2-bedroom with antiques. 

here. 

cottage available. 

Kent House Rapides Parish, Oldest extant home in Private Developing the Layton Castle; Fully developed for Classic Louisiana-style 

Alexandria central Louisiana (c. 1796). 

American Economy: Briarwood; Lloyd Hall visitor use. Admis- French and Spanish 

Four-acre complex includes 

agriculture, slavery; Plantation 

sion charged. Open architecture. House 

slave quarters, carriage 

Architecture 

daily 9 a.m. - 5 originally was six blocks 

house, barn, gardens. 

p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m. away. Seven period rooms 

House stands on brick 

are filled with Empire, 

pillars, exemplifying 

Sheraton, and Federal 

classic Louisiana style. 

furniture. 

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Lea’s Lunch Rapides Parish, Country-style cafe estab- Private. Daughter Building the American Kea’s Lunch Room; Open Tues.-Sun.7 Restaurant is famous for 

Room 

Lecompte. lished 1928. All walks of of original owner Economy; Expressing Dupuy’s 

a.m.-7 p.m. hams baked in dough and 

townspeople eat here. runs restaurant. Cultural Values: food 

Waitresses recite pies baked from secret 

menu (handing out family recipes. Owner Lea 

written menus takes Johnson has appeared on 

too long). Visitors “The Tonight Show;” 

can sense small- daughter Ann now runs 

town continuity, 

tradition. 

restaurant. 

Parlange St. James Parish, Plantation home built in Private Peopling Places; Fairfield Place; Chretien Limited visitor Once an indigo plantation. 

Plantation House near Donaldsonville 1750; oldest operating 

Building the American Point Plantation services, as family 

sugar plantation in state 

Economy 

still occupies house 

still owned and lived in by 

of this working 

original family. 

plantation. 

Chretien Point St. Landry Parish, Restored plantation home Private Building the American Layton Castle; Highly developed Windows and staircase 

Plantation near Sunset open for tours. Outbuild- 

Economy; Agricul- Briarwood; Mount Olivet for visitor use served as models for those 

ings were destroyed during 

ture: cotton-centered Chapel 

in “Tara” during the film- 

Civil War 

experience 

ing of Gone With the 

Wind. After Civil War, 

house was deserted and 

used as a barn. Open daily 

10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Spring Street Caddo Parish, Museum in structure built Private Cultural Diversity (a Imperial Calcasieu Gift shop; tours Permanent collection of 

Museum Shreveport as a bank in 1866 and re- 

variety of ethnic Museum; Snyder October- June Victorian era furnishings 

cently restored. Is town’s 

groups have populated Memorial Museum Sundays 1:30-4:30 from 18th century. 

oldest extant building; has 

the area) 

p.m. or by appoint- 

a cast-iron balcony. Rotatment. 

Admission 

ing collection allows 

museum to showcase large 

exhibits of jewelry, clothing, 

fire-arms, books, and 

newspapers. 

charged. 

Charpentier Calcasieu Parish, Houses dating from Vic- Private Vernacular 

Kent House; Lloyd Hall Tours not available None 

Historical District Lake Charles torian era cover 20 square 

Architecture Plantation 

for most houses, 

blocks. Well- preserved 

but Southwest 

houses still express indi- 

Louisiana Convenviduality 

of the various 

tion and Visitors’ 

architects; rooflines, porch 

Bureau provides a 

placements, and other 

map that outlines a 

exterior features vary from 

driving/walking 

house to house. 

tour of the historical 

district. 

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Ford Museum Claiborne Parish, Museum in 1890 Hotel Public Cultural Diversity; Bayou Folk Museum; Open weekdays 8- Collection began when 

Homer 

Claiborne exhibits regional 

Vernacular Architec- Houma Indian 

1; 2-4; Suns 2-5 Herbert Ford’s sons found 

heritage: Indian dugout 

ture; Building the Settlement. 

p.m. Admission. a German infantry helmet 

canoes, a pioneer log cabin, 

American Economy: 

Community in town dump; Ford started 

a moonshiner’s still, a 

early industry; 

volunteers serve as preserving historically 

blacksmith’s forge, fire- 


guides and operate significant items. Has 30 

arms, cotton scales (see 

facility. 

plantation bells, antique 


firearms, reconstructed 

village. Some exhibits 

cater to children. 

Earl Long Park Winn Parish, Park marks site of former Public Recreation; Politics Louisiana Political Hall Simply a park with None 

Winnfield Governor Earl Long’s 

of Fame 

picnic benches, etc. 

home. Imposing statue and 

Statue and plaque 

plaque. 

give adequate 

information. 

Louisiana Political Winn Parish, Museum housed in an old Public Working people Earl Long Park Fully interactive. Tours courtesy of 

Museum and Hall Winnfield railroad depot contains 

Open free of charge Chamber of Commerce. 

of Fame 

personal effects and exhi- 

Tues.-Fri. 10-4:30; Also con-tains artifacts 

bits on Governors Allen, 

Sat. 10-noon. from local salt mines and 

Hey, and Earl Long. 

rock quarries. 

Oak and Pine St. Martin Parish, Drive through alternating Public Civil War Rolla cemetery Not much develop- Wealthy sugar planter 

Alley 

north of St. oak and pine trees, 1 mile 

ment potential, but Charles Durand planted a 

Martinville long 

this story should be 2-mile alley of oak and 

documented. pine trees along the drive 

to his plantation house. 

House burned during Civil 

War; 1 mile of trees 

remains. 

Atchafalaya Basin St. Martin Parish, Gravel- and shell-surfaced Private People versus Nature Great Wall; Louisiana Good way to see Road is occasionally 

Levee Road near Henderson road atop levee is used by 

Catalog store 

river and various posted with “no trespas- 

farmers, fishermen, and 

ways that comsing” signs, but drivers 

levee inspection crews. Old 

munity has tried to generally ignore them with 

flood-damaged levee is still 

visible. 

control nature. impunity. 

St. John’s Lafayette Parish, Huge Gothic structure with Private Spirituality Lafayette Museum / Jean Church, grounds Mouton’s son, also buried 

Cathedral, Oak Lafayette flying buttresses, built in 

Mouton House and cemetery are here, is purported to have 

Tree, and 

1916 to replace original 

fully accessible to been “Gabriel” of Long- 

cemetery 

wooden structure of 1822. 

public. 

fellow’s poem “Evange- 

St. John’s Cathedral Oak, 

500 years old, stands beside 

cathedral. Cemetery behind 

church contains grave of 

town founder Jean Mouton. 

line.” 

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Lafayette Lafayette Parish, Lafayette County Clerk of Public Local history Louisiana Catalog Store Well-staffed exhibit None 

Courthouse Lafayette the Court has collected 

on courthouse sec- 

over 2,000 photographs of 

ond floor. No 

Lafayette area culture and 

charge; 8:30-4:30 

people over the past 

century. 

weekdays. 

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STORIES OF THE RELATION TO VISITOR 

COMMENTS 


Dorcas Walker Adams County, Home of Dorcas Walker, Private Cultural Diversity: the NA No visitor services Social worker’s father was a 

House 

Natchez one of whose daughters 


Jewish merchant, Charles 

became Mississippi’s first 

African-American social 

worker. Built 1899. 

experience 

Moritz. 

Grand Village of Adams County, Location of historic cere- Private Spirituality; Cultural NA Wall panels, self- None 

the Natchez Natchez monial mound center for 

Diversity: ‘Native 

guiding tours; 

Indians 

the Natchez Indians. Site 

Americans 

educational 

today features a museum, 

programs held 

mounds, nature trails, and 

reconstructed Natchez 

house. 

regularly. 

Wagner’s Store Adams County, Country store dating from Private Building the American Church Hill No visitor services Until 1922, the store also 

Church Hill 1877 has been operated by 

the Wagners since 1922; 

also has been run by 

Jewish merchants. 

Economy 

was the town post office. 

Natchez College Adams County, African-American college Private Cultural Diversity; NA No visitor services Anne Moody, author of 

Natchez founded in 1885 by 


Coming of Age in Missis- 

Baptists; operated until the 


sippi attended Natchez 

early 1990s. 

literature 

college. 

Clarence “Bud” Adams County, Home of well-known jazz Private Cultural Diversity; NA No visitor services Scott is often listed as a New 

Scott House Natchez musician Bud Scott. Built 


Orleans jazz musician, since 

1910-25. 

Values: music (jazz) 

he performed frequently in 

New Orleans. 

Mostly African Adams County, Art gallery housed in Private market in Cultural Diversity; Natchez Museum of Open Wed.-Sat. 1-5 Gallery is operated by a 

Market Natchez Emile Angelety House (ca. public building Expressing Cultural African-American p.m. No structured local activist as a summer 

1850); features works of 

Values: arts and crafts; History and Culture interpretation. enrichment program for 

local black artists and 

Winter exhibits local African-American 

writers; also has gift shop 

feature artwork of youths; proceeds from store 

selling West African arts 

and crafts 

local artists. go to program. 

Richard Wilson Adams County, . Home of Richard Wilson, Private Cultural Diversity: NA None Wright lived here as a pre- 

House 

Natchez grandfather of Richard 

African- American 

schooler. 

Wright, built ca 1900. 

experience; Expressing 


regional literature 

Aaron and Queen Adams County, House built ca, 1880 for Private Cultural Diversity; NA None Descendants maintain ar- 

Victoria Jackson Natchez former slaves Aaron and 

Slavery; Vernacular 

chive of family documents. 

House 

Queen Victoria Jackson. 

Architecture 

Aaron Jackson was a veteran 

of the Union Army. 

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COMMENTS 


Natchez Museum Adams County, Museum in the old federal Nonprofit Working People; Mostly African Market Wall panels and None 

of African- Natchez post office (built 1904) 


guided tours 

American History 

presents artifacts of black 


and Culture 

life, culture, and history in 

Mississippi. 

Values: family life 

Mammy’s Adams County, “Home cooking” restau- Private Cultural Diversity: NA Restaurant Diners enter through “mam- 

Cupboard south of Natchez rant housed in 1941 


my’s” red skirt and eat at 

structure shaped like an 

experience, Expressing 

tables in the skirt area. Al- 



though many people find the 

“mammy.” 

image offensive, it depicts a 

once common stereotype of 

African-American women. 

King’s Tavern Adams County, Restaurant built before Private Peopling Places; NA Restaurant During renovations the 

Natchez 1798 that once served 


skeleton of a woman with a 

travelers on the Natchez 


dagger in her chest was 

Trace and the Mississippi 


discovered behind a bricked- 

River; still serves food, 

up wall. Building. is one of 

offers lodging to visitors in 

the oldest known, dating 

upstairs suite. 

back to days of Natchez 

Territory. 

Dunleith Adams County, Home (1856) of former Private Slavery; Cultural NA None Lynch went on to be speaker 

Natchez slave John R. Lynch, 

Diversity; Politics; 

of the Mississippi house of 

house servant of A. V. 


representatives, a U.S. Con- 

Davis. Lynch became first 

black to hold public office 

in Mississippi. 


gressman, and an author. 

Holy Family Adams County, Oldest African-American Private Spirituality; Cultural NA No visitor services Complex includes an 1894 

Catholic Church Natchez Catholic church in state, 

Diversity; Education 

convent, a 1906 school 

built in 1894, finest 

auditorium and cafeteria, a 

Victorian Gothic Revival 

rectory (ca. 1985), and a 

building in Natchez. 

post- World War II school 

building. 

John Banks House Adams County, Home of Dr. John Banks, Private Architecture; Cultural NA None Banks was licensed to 

Natchez built 1886-92). Queen 

Diversity; Education 

practice medicine in Adams 

Anne style, remodeled in a 

County in 1889, becoming 

Colonial Revival Style 

first African-American 

(1904-10). 

doctor in Natchez. He hosted 

Booker T. Washington when 

he visited in 1904. 

Fork of the Road Adams County, Site of one of the two Public Slavery; African- NA None NA 

Slave Markets Natchez largest slave markets in the 

South. 

American experience 

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Magnolia Vale Adams County, Suburban estate where Public Slavery; Military NA None Barracks are depicted on the 

and Neighborhood Natchez (Under- Union Army built “con- 

History; Civil War 

1864 Map of the “Defences 

the-Hill district) traband” barracks to house 

newly freed slaves. 

of Natchez and Vicinity.” 

Old Prentiss Bolivar County, Ghost town, once a Public Peopling Places; River Rodney; Grand Gulf; NA Prentiss “died” three times: 

near Rosedale bustling riverport with 

Transport 

other ghost towns 

burned during Civil War; 

saloons and gambling 

river consumed a huge part 

houses, now only a small 

of town , retreated tempo- 

cemetery plot with 3 

tombstones. 

rarily, and covered it again. 

McCarty’s Studio Bolivar County, Art studio of Lee and Private Expressing Cultural The Gallery (restaurant) Open 10-4; closed Paintings of Theora Ham- 

Marigold “Pup” McCarty, native 

Values: pottery, fine 

Sundays and blett (renowned Mississippi 

Mississippians who make 

art 

Mondays 

folk artist) hang on the 

famous pottery from 

walls. Artists are often on 

Mississippi Delta clay. 

hand to explain works. 

The Gallery Bolivar County, Restaurant owned by Private Expressing Cultural McCarty studio Open 11:30 a.m. - 1 Diners choose from two set 

(restaurant) Marigold McCarty’s, serving 

Values: food 

a.m.; reservations menus. Famous for choco- 

“nouvelle” Southern in an 

preferred. 

late cobbler. 

elegant white 

Mound Bayou Bolivar County, 

tablecloths, fresh flowers, 

and McCarty pottery. 

First and largest town in Public Peopling Places; Other African-American State historical Town founded by cousins 

south of the United States founded 

Cultural Diversity sites 

marker at town Isaiah T. Montgomery and 

Clarksdale by former slaves; founded 

entrance; cassette-led Benjamin T. Green, who had 

in 1887. 

tour of town offered been slaves of Joe Davis 

at city hall (brother of Jefferson Davis); 

they had conceived idea 

before emancipation. 

B. T. Creswell Bolivar County, Two-story frame house Private Cultural Diversity; Other African-American City hall offers Creswell was a son of one of 

Home 

Mound Bayou where fourth mayor of the 

Peopling Places: early sites 

cassette-led walking the original Mound Bayou 

town, B. T. Creswell, once 

settlers 

tour. Mound Bayou founders, B. T. Green. 

lived (built in 1890s). 

room (in city hall) Creswell was mayor from 

contains a collection 1906-1919, the longest 

of artifacts and 

photos of early 

settlers. 

tenure in town’s history. 

The Dew Drop Bolivar County, Delta juke institution Private Expressing Cultural Other blues sites Open Thursday- Great soul food. 

Inn 

Shelby 

Values: music (blues) 

Sunday; a “bring 

food; Recreation 

your own bottle” 

establishment 

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Old Bank / Old Bolivar County, Former bank and post Private Early history; Building Other African-American Cassette-led walking Building also housed a 

Post Office Mound Bayou office building constructed 

the American sites 

tours provided doctor’s office, the Mound 

in early 1900s. 


through city hall; Bayou Oil Mill and Manu- 

Diversity 

Mound Bayou room facturing Company, and the 

(in city hall) contains office of Knights and 

artifacts/ photos of 

early settlers. 

Daughters of Tabor. 

Fred Miller home Bolivar County, Built in 1914, the former Private Cultural Diversity; Other African-American Cassette-led walking Mariah Green was married 

Mound Bayou home of B. T. Green’s 

Architecture sites 

tours provided to Fred H. Miller, who was 

daughter, Mariah Green 

through city hall; the third president of the 

Miller. 

Mound Bayou room Alpha fraternity, a national 

(in city hall) contains African-American college 

artifacts/ photos of fraternity organized at the 

early settlers. turn of the century. 

Mary Booze Bolivar County, House built in 1910 for Private Cultural Diversity; I. T. Montgomery home City hall offers Mary Booze was the Na- 

Home 

Mound Bayou Mary C. Booze, daughter 

Politics 

(National Register of cassette-led walking tional Republican commit- 

of I. T. Montgomery. 

Historic Places); other tour; exhibits in teewoman for Mississippi 

African-American sites Mound Bayou room 

of city hall contain 

artifacts and photographs 

of early 

settlers. 

during the 1920s-30s. 

Mound Bayou Bolivar County, Cemetery where I. T. Public Cultural Diversity Other African-American City hall offers None 

Cemetery Mound Bayou Montgomery, founder if 

sites 

cassette-led walking 

town, is buried, along with 

tour; exhibits in 

other early settlers. 

Mound Bayou room 

of city hall contain 

artifacts and photographs 

of early 

settlers. 

First Baptist Bolivar County, Built in 1905; first church Private Spirituality; Cultural Other African-American City hall offers Originally a multidenomi- 

Church Mound Bayou in Mound Bayou. 

Diversity 

sites 

cassette-led walking national brush arbor (estab- 

tour; Mound Bayou 

room in city hall 

exhibits artifacts and 

photos of early 

settlers. 

lished in 1888) 

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Perry Martin Lake Bolivar County, Only state park located on State Mississippi River; NA State operates a 

near Rosedale the Mississippi River; here 

Recreation; Expressing 

visitor center at the 

folk hero/“river rat” Perry 


state park 

Martin once ran a moonshining 

business. One of 

Martin’s stills sits in front 

of the park’s visitor center. 

folklore 

Grand Gulf Claiborne County, 

northwest of Port 

Gibson 

No Easy Journey: 

The Civil Rights 

Movement in 

Claiborne County 

Mississippi 

Cultural 

Crossroads 

Picturing Our 

Past: Photographs 

from the Allen 

Collection 

Claiborne County, 

Port Gibson 

Claiborne County 

Port Gibson 

Claiborne County, 

Port Gibson City 

Hall 

WROX Radio Coahoma County, 

Clarksdale 

Wade Walton’s 

Barbershop 

St. George’s 

Episcopal Church 

and Rectory 

Coahoma County, 

Clarksdale 

Coahoma County, 

Clarksdale 

Once a thriving riverport 

in 1850s. Part of town was 

lost to the river. State’s 

only military park. 

Exhibit of photos, text, 

material objects telling 

story of civil rights 

movement in county 

Community cultural center 

and gallery dedicated to 

promoting the arts. Permanently 

displays quilts 

made by African- 

American people, also 

local child-ren’s art. 

Exhibit of 50 photographs 

showing life in rural South 

in early 20th century. 

Broadcast studio where 

blues DJ Early “Soul 

Man” Wright began in 

1947. 

Barbershop where Clarksdale’s 

legendary bluessinging 

barber, guitarist, 

and razor stropper “does 

his thing.” 

Grandfather of Tennessee 

Williams was the church 

rector here. 

Public/Private Peopling Places; Civil 

War 

Private Cultural Diversity; 

Civil Rights 

Movement 

Nonprofit Cultural Diversity; 


Values: folk art 

Private Spirituality; Working 

People; Agriculture 

Private Cultural Diversity: 




(blues) 

Private Cultural Diversity: 




(blues) 

Private Spirituality; 



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Rodney and Rocky 

Springs are other 

“ghost” towns 

Mississippi Cultural 

Crossroads; Picturing 

Our Past 

Port Gibson Civil Rights 

Exhibit: “No Easy 

Journey” and the city 

hall photographic 

history of Port Gibson 

No Easy Journey; 

Mississippi Cultural 

Crossroads 

Markers explain 

significance 

Open 8-5 Monday- 

Friday. Photographs, 

wall panels 

Monday-Friday, 9-4. 

Onsite staff provides 

information 

Photographs taken in 

early 1900s, 

accompanied by 

printed explanations 

COMMENTS 

Other “PM” memorabilia 

and a replica of his houseboat 

are planned for display. 

“PM” moonshine was famous 

throughout the South 

and as far away as Pennsylvania 

and Ohio. Kegs of PM 

made for state inauguration 

balls received highway 

patrol escorts. 

Noted for Civil War battle 

where Grant tried to launch 

Vicksburg campaign. 

Claiborne was a major slaveholding 

community before 

the Civil War. 

Center often has an artist in 

residence and onsite quilters. 

An outside wall mural 

depicts the area’s racial 

diversity. 

Images of cotton-picking, 

mule-drawn wagons, smalltown 

architecture, river 

baptisms, country fairs. 

Other blues sites Visitors welcome Ike Turner was once a DJ 

here. 

Other blues sites Working barber Walton often sings for 

shop; closed Sundays visitors (if not cutting hair). 

and Mondays. 

Moon Lake, Thomas 

Center 

NA Tennessee Williams and his 

family lived in this area.


MISSISSIPPI 


COMMENTS 


Delta Blues Coahoma County, Museum in town’s original Public Cultural Diversity; Carnegie Public Library Extensive collection Wall panels explain history 

Museum Clarksdale Carnegie Public Library 

Expressing Cultural in Clarksdale; other of videos, 

of the blues and individual 

(built in 1912). Dedicated 

Values: music (blues) blues sites in the Delta magazines, books, musicians. Museum also 

to collecting/ preserving 


sound recordings contains artifacts of the 

information about history 

available to visitors. blues industry and artwork 

and significance of the 

blues. 

of musicians. 

Carnegie Public Coahoma County, Public library constructed Public Cultural Diversity: Delta Blues Museum in Maps and other In 1541 DeSoto’s men 

Library Clarksdale in 1912 houses Delta 

African-Americans, Clarksdale 

explanatory encountered the Quizquiz 

Blues Museum and exhib- 

Native Americans; 

materials are Indians, whose village 

its on history of Native 


available 

encompassed all what is now 

Americans in Clarksdale 

Values: music (blues), 

of Clarksdale. 

area. 

literature 

Stackhouse/Delta Coahoma County Blues recording studio and Private Expressing Cultural Other blues sites Store Store also sells an informa- 

Record Mart and Clarksdale record store that sells a 


tive Delta blues map kit. 

Recording Studios 

wide variety of blues music, 

also, reggae, African, 

and jazz, mojo bags, and 

blues books 

Ike Turner’s Coahoma County, House where Izear Luster Private Cultural Diversity; Other African-American Private home; no None 

House 

Clarksdale Turner, Jr. was born and 

Expressing Cultural music sites 

visitor services 

where Turner family lived 

until the 1950s. 

Values: music 

Smitty’s Red Top Coahoma County, Delta “juke joint” featured Private Cultural Diversity; Other blues sites None None 

Lounge Clarksdale on the cover of the Jelly 


Roll King’s album. 

Values: music (blues); 

Recreation 

Red’s South End Coahoma County, Juke joint regularly Private Expressing Cultural Other blues sites None “Red’s” is painted on side 

Disco 

Clarksdale. featuring Delta blues 

musicians 


Recreation 

of brick building with 

gray paint. 

Chamoun’s Rest Coahoma County, Lebanese restaurant first Private Cultural Diversity; Mama’s Dreamworld in Restaurant open Now operated by cousins of 

Haven 

Clarksdale opened in the 1950s by an 

Peopling Places; Belzoni 

Monday-Tuesday original couple; serves tra- 

immigrant couple. 


5:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.; ditional Lebanese dishes 

Values: food 

Wednesday-Saturday such as kibbie, stuffed grape 

5:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.; leaves, tabouli salad, and 

closed Sundays. baklava. 

Uncle Henry’s Coahoma County, Bed-and-Breakfast estab- Private Building the American St. Georges, Thomas 

Tennessee Williams and his 

Bed and Breakfast Dundee (just lishment once called Moon 

Economy; Expressing Center 

rector grandfather visited 

outside of Lake Casino 


this Delta night spot en route 

Clarksdale) 

literature 

to parish calls in 1920s-30s. 

Mentioned by Williams in 

The Glass Menagerie and by 

Eudora Welty in Delta 

Weddings. 

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Riverside Hotel Coahoma County, Before becoming a hotel in Private Cultural Diversity; Blues-related sites Hotel; can call to Hotel has been visited by 

Clarksdale, 1944, this was the G. T. 


visit. 

Sonny Boy Williamson, 

Thomas Afro-American 


Peck Curtis, Ike Turner, and 

Hospital. Here Bessie 

Smith, “the empress of the 

blues,” died in 1937. 

other well-known musicians. 

River Mount Coahoma County, Juke joint featuring blues Private Expressing Cultural Other blues sites Lounge Kitchen serves “the best fish 

Lounge Clarksdale. and soul performances. 


Recreation 

dinners around.” 

Thompson Center Coahoma County, Theater built for vaude- Private Expressing Cultural Moon Lake, St. 

Used during Tennessee 

Clarksdale ville in 1914; later a movie 

Values: dramatic arts; George’s 

Williams. Festival in 

house; now a community 

theater for drama. 

Recreation’ 

October. 

Mansion used in Copiah County, Elegant colonial mansion Private Architecture; NA NA Author Beth Henley also 

movie Crimes of Hazlehurst built in 1925, kitchen of 


wrote The Miss Firecracker 

the Heart 

which was the setting for 

Values: drama, 

Contest, which later became 

the play/film Crimes of the 

movies, literature 

the film Miss Firecracker. 

Heart. 

(Southern gothic 

This was set in Brookhaven 

tradition) 

(Lincoln County). 

Tomatopolis of Copiah County, Town once the largest Public Agriculture; Working NA Chamber of The end of the tomato 

the World Crystal Springs tomato shipping center in 

People; Building the 

Commerce has old industry for this area reveals 

the nation. Crystal Springs 


news clippings and how the trucking industry 

tomatoes were considered 

history. 

and a decline in produce 

the standard in U.S. and 

farming affected small 

Canada; they were sold in 

agricultural towns in the 

major cities in East and 

West and even in Liverpool, 

England. 

South. 

William Burt Copiah County, Tombstone of an early Public Working People; NA NA Burt lived through the War 

Tombstone at southeast of settler who lived in three 


of 1812, the Mexican War, 

Harmony Baptist Crystal Springs centuries, having been 

the Civil War, and the 

Church 

born January 30, 1797, and 

Spanish-American War. He 

died May 19, 1900. Burt 

debated with Jefferson 

built area’s first sawmill 

Davis, opposing the South’s 

and was a vocal abolition- 

involvement in the Civil 

ist. 

War. 

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DELTA 

Chautauqua Park Copiah County, Former summer retreat/ Public Expressing Cultural 

Crystal Springs camp meeting area for 

Southerners (1882-1917) 

on 60 acres of wooded 

land. An epicenter of art 

and culture, it was visited 

by nationally known 

scholars, evangelists, 

actors. 

Values; Recreation 

Eudora Welty 

Library and 

Mississippi 

Writers’ Room 

Mississippi Crafts 

Center 

Jim Buck Ross 

Mississippi 

Agriculture and 

Forestry Museum; 

National Agriculture 

Aviation 

Museum 

H. D. Gibbes and 

Son General Store 

Hinds County, 

Jackson 

Hinds County, 

Ridgeland 

Hinds County, 

Jackson 

Hinds County, 

Learned (east of 

Utica) 

Mayflower Cafe Hinds County, 

Jackson, 

Small exhibit dedicated to 

Mississippi writers such as 

Welty, Faulkner, and 

Percy. Contains photographs 

of authors and 

some first editions of 

books. 

“Dogtrot” log cabin 

housing southern folk arts 

and crafts 

Exhibit complex tracing 

story of Mississippi farmers, 

lumbermen, and crop 

dusters. 

Country store opened in 

1900, featuring collections 

of store’s original fixtures 

and equipment. 

Downtown restaurant 

opened in 1935 by Greek 

immigrants (from Patmos) 

during the midst of the 

Great Depression. Still 

owned by same family. 

Public Expressing Cultural 


Private Vernacular 

Architecture; 


Values: folk art. 

Private Working People; 

Agriculture; Aviation 

Private Building the American 

Economy 

Private Cultural Diversity; 


Values: food 

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NA Historical marker; 

visitor center is 

planned 

Greenville Writers’ 

Exhibit 

Open 9-9 Monday- 

Thursday, 9-6 Friday 

and Saturday, 1-5 

Sunday 

NA Artists’ demonstraions 

held on weekends 

from March 

through October 

NA Extensive visitor 

services 

COMMENTS 

Part of Chautauqua movement 

popular at turn of 

century (which began in 

NY). Retreat brought ten 

trains a day to Crystal 

Springs. Lake Chautauqua 

was created by the Illinois 

Central Railroad as a 

reservoir for steam locomotives 

carrying tomatoes 

Display cases and 

videotapes telling about 

Mississippi writers. 

Exhibits or demonstrations 

of Choctaw basketry, woodcarving, 

quilting, and weaving. 

Includes restored 1920s 

town, heritage center, and 

restored farmstead; contains 

cotton gin, crop dusters, and 

other farm-related 

machinery. 

NA Open Monday- 

Saturday from 7 a.m. 

till 7:30 p.m. or 

sundown. 

Known for hamburgers. 

NA Restaurant Specializes in seafood and 

Greek salads. Restaurant 

was setting for parts of film 

The Chamber, based on 

book by Mississippi writer 

John Grisham.


MISSISSIPPI 


COMMENTS 


Smith Robertson Hinds County, Museum housed in Public/nonprofit Education; Cultural NA Cultural programs Located in Farish St. His- 

Museum and Jackson Jackson’s first public 

Diversity; Expressing 

and wall panels give toric District, which was a 

Cultural Center 

school for African- 


information on black thriving African-American 

Americans (opened 1894); 

experience. business district in 1920sartifacts 

portray black 

1930s. Focus is on journey 

experience in history, art, 

from Africa, slavery, recon- 

music, and literature. 

struction, and present-day 

leaders. 

Little Red Holmes County, An 1848 house once the Private Cultural Diversity; NA No visitor services In 1910, the Order of the 

Schoolhouse south of Richland Literary Institute, 

Education 

Eastern Star (female associ- 

Lexington. later Eureka Masonic colate 

of the Masonic Lodge) 

lege, and still later an 

African-American secondary 

school. 

was chartered here. 

Elmore James Holmes County, Tombstone marking the Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues sites No visitor services Grave in church yard is 

Tombstone Ebenezer burial site of bluesman 


difficult to find. 

Elmore James. 


Booker-Thomas Holmes County, Small museum of personal Private Working People; NA Small, informal Contains tools, family 

Museum near Lexington. and community belongings 


museum 

photos, clothing, furniture, 

left behind by black ances- 

Spirituality 

and a preacher’s traveling 

tors who migrated to the 

North. 

library. 

The Catfish Humphreys Information center ex- Private Building the American Wesley Bobo’s Video presentation; Outside museum is a 40- 

Capital County, Belzoni plaining catfish industry in 

Economy; People Roadside Dinosaurs near also exhibits foot, half ton steel and wire 

the Delta. 

versus Nature (levees Egremont 

explaining history of mesh catfish created by 

bridge catfish farms); 

catfish farming, Mississippi folk artist 


artistic interpretation Wesley Bobo. Humphreys 

Values: food 

of catfish, devices County has more acreage 

used in farming under water than any other 

(such as nets) U.S. County (water for fish). 

Ethel Wright Humphreys Small museum exhibiting Private Spirituality; Cultural NA By appointment The late artist learned her 

Mohammed County, Belzoni famous stitchery of Ethel 


only, but will open craft from her mother. Her 

Museum: 

Wright Mohammed. Her 

Cultural Values: folk 

“at the drop of a works depict family life and 

“Mama’s 

works are also found in the 

art 

hat.” $2 admission. life in the Delta. She married 

Dreamworld” 

Smithsonian Institution. 

a Lebanese immigrant in 

1924, and some of her works 

depict her trip to Lebanon to 

meet his family. 

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COMMENTS 


C. B. “Buddy” Issaquena County, Museum containing arti- Private Working People; NA No formal visitor C. B. Newman, a former 

Newman Museum north of facts and memorabilia 


services; visitors can speaker of the Mississippi 

Vicksburg concerning the railroad, 


ask the Newmans House of Representatives, 

Delta floods, Delta farm- 


questions 

spent 40 years in the state 

ing, and Mississippi 

Natural Resources; 

legislature. He opened 

politics. 

Politics 

museum after railroad 

abandoned the line, and he 

bought part of the railroad 

track for his museum. . 

Town of Issaquena County, Town was incorporated by Public Cultural Diversity; Freedom House Tours can be Unita Blackwell was elected 

Mayersville (county seat) Unita Blackwell, 


arranged through in 1976 and was a key 

Mississippi’s first black 

Slavery 

mayor’s office. organizer of the Mississippi 

woman mayor and 

Freedom Democratic Party, 

freedom fighter. Issaquena 

which challenged the all- 

once had more slaves than 

white delegation to integrate 

any other county in the 

at the Atlanta convention in 

South. 

1964. 

Freedom House Issaquena County, Early 1900s “shotgun Private Cultural Diversity; Town of Mayersville Tours can be Cornerstone of house is 

Mayersville style” house for civil rights 

Civil Rights issues; 

arranged through marked with the insignia of 

activists. Crosses were 

mayor’s office. the Black and Tan party; 

often burned in front. Parts 

meetings were once held in 

of documentary, “Eyes on 

the house. Actress Shirley 

the Prize,” were filmed 

McLaine stayed here during 

here. 

the 1960s. 

Harrison Home Jefferson County, Property has been owned Private Cultural Diversity; NA Tours by 

None 

Fayette by African-Americans 

since 1867, two years after 

emancipation. House dates 

from 1900. 


appointment only 

Church Hill Jefferson County, Country hamlet with old Public Spirituality; Peopling Wagner’s; The Cedars Can contact Christ Episcopal Church 

Natchez/Fayette store, oldest Episcopal 

Places, Building the (Antebellum house in Jefferson County (built 1857) holds services 

area (near Church in Mississippi 

American Economy Church Hill that is on Visitor Center once a month. Plantations 

Natchez Trace) (English Gothic Revival, 

National Register of 

are privately owned, but 

1857); three nearby 

Historic Places) 

houses are visible from the 

plantation houses. 

road. 

Lorman Old Jefferson County, Country store dating from Private Building the American NA None Store has over 80,000 

Country Store north of Port 1896; filled with historical 


visitors each year. 

Gibson remnants: tall rolling 

ladders, railroad lanterns, 

etc. 

People 

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Hamlet of Union Jefferson County, Old Scottish settlement Public Cultural Diversity; Varnado’s Store None Many old buildings: ante- 

Church Fayette dating from 1804, today a 


bellum post office; several 

small hamlet still inhabited 


antebellum homes (some 

by people of Scottish 


with dogtrots); old ceme- 

descent. 

Economy 

teries and country churches. 

Town is site of Grierson’s 

Raid during Civil War, a 

small skirmish in which 

Confederate forces ran 

Union troops out. 

Varnado’s Store Jefferson County, Country store built in 1861 Private Working People; Hamlet of Union Church Open 7-5 Monday None 

Union Church and once operated by 


through Saturday; no 

Jewish merchants; still 

Economy 

formal visitor 

operating. 

services, but owners 

can give history. 

Medgar Evers Jefferson County, Historical marker in Public Cultural Diversity; Medgar Evers statue in NA Evers, considered by many 

Historical Marker Fayette memory of slain NAACP 

Civil Rights struggle Jackson 

to be the “forgotten Civil 

field worker, Medgar 

Rights worker,” was killed 

Evers. Statue erected by 

in Jackson during the Civil 

Evers’s brother who is the 

Rights movement. His 

former mayor of Fayette 

murderer, Byron Beckwith, 

and was the first black 

was the model for the death 

mayor in the state. 

row inmate character in John 

Grisham’s novel The 

Chamber. 

Old Brick Church Jefferson County, 1845 Church with old Private Spirituality; Civil War NA State historical Town of Red Lick takes its 

Red Lick cemetery; church figured 

marker on highway name from the red clay that 

in the Cotton Bales 

552 gives 

deer licked for salts. 

skirmish in the Civil War. 

information. 

Rodney Jefferson County, 1829 church in one brick Private Spirituality; Civil War NA Historical markers Difficult to find; can call 

Presbyterian Lorman. wall of which is still 

explain history, but Jefferson County Visitor 

Church 

embedded a Union 

inside not open to the Center. 

cannonball that was fired 

by gunboat USS Rattler. 

public 

Mount Locust Jefferson County, Country inn built 1779, Public (part of Peopling Places; early NA Free tours 10 months Land surrounding house was 

near Natchez on said to be set on Indian trace parkway) history 

a year; closed part of a British land grant, 

Natchez trace habitation. Originally a 

December and once part of British West 

parkway farmhouse, used as an inn 

January. Historical Florida. 

for trace travelers during 

markers and good 

the early 1880s. 

illustrations. 

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Hamblett-Brown Lafayette County, Former home of Private Expressing Cultural NA None House built in 1872. 

House 

Oxford internationally known folk 

artist Theora Hamblett, 

who lived here from 1945 

until her death in 1977. 

Values: folk art 

Stonington Jefferson County, Plantation owned and Private Cultural Diversity; NA Tourist center House once sat on 1,700 

Plantation west of Harriston operated by Floyd Bailey, 


arranges tours acres. Plantation was the 

an African-American born 

the American 

home of 10 sharecropping 

to sharecroppers. 

Economy 

families. 

Ruth and Lafayette County, Country store built in early Private Expressing Cultural Other country stores Restaurant open for Offers a cookbook for sale. 

Jimmie’s Abbeville 1930s. Still sells groceries, 

Values: food; Working 

breakfast and lunch All meals cooked on a cast- 

and since 1973 has also 

People 

only, 7 days a week. iron stove. Menu includes 

served homestyle Southern 

fried okra, steak with gravy, 

cooking. 

cornbread, cobblers, and 

vegetable plates. Still has 

original counter with stools. 

Smitty’s Lafayette County, Small-town Southern cafe Private Expressing Cultural Other Faulkner-related Restaurant Good location for visitors to 

Oxford serving biscuits and gravy 

Values: food, literature sites 

eat and browse the area. Was 

breakfasts, vegetable plate 

a gathering place of Ox- 

lunches. 

ford’s “old guard,” many of 

whom were friends of author 

Faulkner. 

Birthplace of Union County, Historical marker only Private Expressing Cultural Union County Heritage Marker tells story The author’s father was 

William Faulkner New Albany 

Values: literature Museum; other Faulkner 

stationmaster of local 

sites 

railroad, depot a few blocks 

from their house. 

Rowan Oak Lafayette County, Greek Revival house built Private Architecture; Other Faulkner-related Open Tues.-Sat. The plot outline of “A 

Oxford in 1848, bought by 

Expressing Cultural sites 

from 10-noon; 2-4; Fable” is written on the wall 

William Faulkner in 1930. 


Sun. 2-4. Tours 

available by request; 

staff can answer 

questions. 

in one room. 

Freeland, Lafayette County, Building (ca. 1868) housed Private Expressing Cultural Other Faulkner-related None Oldest continuing law office 

Freeland, & Oxford office of Phil Stone, 

Values: literature; sites 

structure in Mississippi. 

Wilson, Esqs. 

Faulkner’s friend. 



People 

Duvall’s Lafayette County, Building (ca. 1900) where Private Building the American Other Faulkner-related None Building also housed a 

Oxford Faulkner’s great- 

Economy; Expressing sites 

funeral home and a men’s 

grandfather established the 

Cultural Values; 

clothing store; now it 

First National Bank in 

literature 

contains a women’s clothing 

1910. 

store. Faulkner refers to it in 

Flags in the Dust and The 

Unvanquished. 

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Gatekeeper’s Lafayette Home (ca. 1841) of Private Cultural Diversity Other Faulkner-related None House was built by Jacob 

Lodge 

County,. Oxford Scottish indentured servant 

sites 

Thompson, one of Oxford’s 

who designed gardens at 

most influential and best- 

Rowan Oak and other 

Oxford homes. 

known citizens. 

Center for the Lafayette County, Teaching and research Public Education; Cultural NA Small tours avail- Small exhibits; store selling 

Study of Southern Barnard center dedicated to study 


able; must call in Faulkner paraphernalia. 

Culture (observa- 

of the South. Exhibits 


advance. Weekly 

tory on campus of 

about Southern history and 

“brown bag” lunch 

University of 

culture. It is housed in an 

speakers; special 

Mississippi) 

antebellum observatory. 

films, videos, 

lectures. 

DeVoe’s Lafayette County, Drug store that once had a Private Building the American Other Faulkner-related None None 

Gathright-Reed Oxford lending library of books, 

Economy; Expressing sites 

Drug Company. 

mostly mysteries, which 


William Faulkner 

regularly checked out. 

literature. 

St. Peter’s Lafayette County, Cemetery where William Public Spirituality; Other Faulkner-related State historical Many of Oxford’s most 

Cemetery Oxford Faulkner is buried. 


marker near prominent citizens are 


gravesite. 

buried here. 

Stone Hunting Panola County, Lodge where William Private Recreation; Expressing Other Faulkner sites None Dummy Line Road was once 

Lodge 

southwest of Faulkner hunted. He later 


the Batesville Southwestern 

Batesville (off wrote about his hunting 

literature 

Railroad, which Faulkner 

Dummy Line experiences here in “The 

and friends would take to get 

Road) 

Bear” and “The Big 

Woods.” 

to the lodge. 

Hindman Family Tippah County, Cemetery where Robert Public Cultural Diversity; Other Faulkner-related None Marker reads “Killed at 

Cemetery east of Ripley Holt Hindman is buried. 

Regional history sites 

Ripley, Mississippi, by Wm. 

He was killed by “Old 

C. Faulkner.” Legends 

Colonel” Faulkner, great- 

surrounding the event are 

grandfather of author 

William Faulkner. 

still told in town. 

W. R. Cole - R. J. Tippah County, House where former Private Architecture; Other Faulkner-related None None 

Thurmond House Ripley 

business partner (and later 


murderer) of Col. Faulkner 


(William’s great- 


grandfather) lived. 

Economy 

Dr. John Y. Murry Tippah County, Early home of William Private Architecture; Other Faulkner-related None None 

Home 

Ripley 

Faulkner’s other great- 


grandfather, Dr. Murry 


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Cotton Plant Tippah County, Former 10,000-acre game Private Recreation; Expressing NA None W. C. Handy performed at 

(originally known south of Blue preserve of Paul J. Rainey, 

Cultural Values: film 

parties Rainey gave at his 

as Tippah Farms) Mountain College man who made first mo- 

lodge. Gates at NY’s Bronx 

tion pictures in Africa 

Zoo were commissioned by 

and named for Rainey. Short 

film clips from African 

safaris can be viewed at 

Ripley Public Library. 

Tomb of Old Tippah County, Tomb of William Faulk- Public Regional history; Other Faulkner sites None Tomb and cemetery des- 

Colonel Faulkner, Ripley 

ner’s great- grandfather, 


cribed in Faulkner’s Flags in 

at Ripley 

marked with large statue 


the Dust. Character Col. 

Cemetery 

of “Old Colonel” 

Sartoris is modeled after 

Faulkner, built in 1892. 

Col. Faulkner. A drunken 

descendant of Old Colonel’s 

killer shot fingers off the 

statue. 

Old Ripley Union County, Only narrow-gauge track Private Building the American Other Faulkner-related NA Old Colonel was president 

Railroad New Albany in Mississippi, built by Old 

Economy 

sites 

of the railroad in 1870s. Line 

Col. Faulkner, William’s 

goes from Ripley to 

great-grandfather, 1880- 

90. 

Pontotoc. 

Ammadelle Lafayette County, Italianate villa designed by Private Architecture; NA None House was featured in 1950s 

Oxford well-known architect 


MGM movie, Home From 

Calvert Vaux, begun in 

Values: movies 

the Hills, which was filmed 

1859. 

in Oxford. 

University of Lafayette County, Home of B. B. King’s Public Expressing Cultural NA Appointment needed King collection includes 

Mississippi Blues Oxford personal collection; 


in advance to go into over 10,000 records, 

Archives 

functions as a library for 

archives. Can listen promotional materials, 

blues music. 

to music or read 

books on blues. 

posters, and photos. 

Square Books Lafayette County, Nationally known book- Private Building the American NA Bookstore Building, first used as a dry 

Oxford. store carrying diverse 


goods store, (1860s) was one 

selection of books 


of the first built after Civil 

including Southern studies. 

literature 

War. Frequent visitors are 

local authors Larry Brown, 

John Grisham, and Willie 

Morris. 

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Taylor Grocery Lafayette County, Country catfish restaurant Private Building the American Other country Friendly staff happy First to sign walls in 1978 

and Restaurant Hamlet of Taylor housed in 1910 country 

Economy; Expressing restaurants 

to give visitors were Mississippi Sen. Thad 

store. Known as “that 


restaurant’s history. Cochran and local writer/ 

catfish place.” 

Open Thursdays and celebrity Willie Morris. 

Sundays 5:30-9 p.m.; Since then everyone from 

Friday and Saturday Jimmy Buffet to Ole Miss 

5:30-10 p.m. sorority and fraternity 

Reservations members have signed the 

suggested. walls. 

University Lafayette County, Museum houses a Private Expressing Cultural Theora Hamblett house Wall panels; staff Opened in 1975. Behind the 

Museums Oxford Southern folk art room 

Values: fine arts; folk 

can explain exhibits museum is a trail leading 

(including largest 

art 

through Bailey’s Woods to 

collection of works by 

Oxford painter Theora 

Hamblett); often has 

exhibits featuring 

Mississippi artists. 

Rowan Oak. 

Malmaison Leflore County, Land where Greenwood Public Natural Resources; NA Greenwood visitor Leflore is considered to have 

Wildlife Refuge between Green- Leflore, last Choctaw 


center has been the greatest Choctaw 

wood and Teoc chieftain east of the 

information on chief. When tribe was forced 

(part of land also Mississippi River, built a 

Leflore and his to go to Oklahoma, he 

in Carrol County) French mansion. 

legacy. 

stayed at Malmaison. 

Cottonlandia Leflore County, Museum depicting history Private Working People; NA Admission charged. Includes wall panels, cases 

Museum Greenwood of Delta region, including 


exhibits on Indians, 


lumberjacks, trappers, 

the American 

traders, farmers, local 


heroes, artists, writers, and 

saints 


Robert Johnson Leflore County, Marker at the Mt. Zion Public Cultural Diversity; Robert Johnson Visitors can read the There is controversy sur- 

Memorial (at Mt. between Itta Bena M.B. Church dedicated to 

Spirituality; Expres- tombstone in Quito marker, and tours rounding Johnson’s “real” 

Zion M.B. and Morgan City “King of the Delta Blues 


can be arranged. burial site; some argue that 

Church) 

Singers.” 

music (blues) 

he is buried at Payne M.B. 

Chapel in Quito, Mississippi. 

Robert Johnson’s Leflore County, Grave marker for “King of Public Cultural Diversity; Robert Johnson marker Open to public There is controversy 

Tombstone Quito 

the Delta Blues” in ceme- 

Spirituality; Expres- at Mt. Zion Church 

surrounding Johnson’s 

tery behind Payne Chapel 


“real” burial site; some 

M.B. Church. 

music (blues) 

argue that he is buried at the 

Mount Zion Church. 

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Lusco’s Leflore County, Originally a grocery and Private Expressing Cultural NA Open for dinner Privately partitioned booths 

Greenwood small menu restaurant 

Values: food; Building 

only, Tuesdays were constructed in 1933 by 

opened in 1933. It still 

the American 

through Saturdays. owner so local gentry could 

serves a variety of dishes 

Economy 

drink his then illegal home 

to diners who sit at 

brew. Diners sit behind 

individual partitions 

drawn curtains and “buzz” 

behind drawn curtains. 

their waiters for service. 

St. James Leflore County, Cemetery where bluesman Public Spirituality; NA Open to public; Grave is located at the back 

Cemetery Avalon “Mississippi John” Hurt, 


cemetery is off a dirt of the cemetery. 

who came from Avalon, is 

buried. 


road, difficult to find 

Cobb’s Sorghum Panola County, Sorghum mill run by third- Private Building the American NA Call before coming; Best time to come is during 

Mill 

between Batesgeneration syrup makers 


cooking is done “cooking time” (late Augustville 

and Sardis who grow, harvest, and 

People; Agriculture 

about three days a late October or early 

process the cane. 

week, including November) to see actual 

Saturday; hours vary. processing. Syrup makers 

are on hand to explain, 

recipe brochures available, 

Mississippi cane syrup for 

sale. 

Como Steak Panola County, Restaurant housed in old Private Expressing Cultural NA NA Patrons can cook their own 

House 

Como 

general store and post 

office serves a variety of 

steaks, catfish, and 

chicken. 

Values: food 

steaks. 

Batesville Panola County, Group of five Indian Public Native Americans; NA Can contact the The site of present Batesville 

Mounds Batesville mounds once used by the 

Spirituality 

mayor’s office for was inhabited by the 

Chickasaw Indians. 

Largest mound, “mound 

D,” is 35 feet high, and 

343 feet in circumference. 

information. Chickasaws before 1932. 

Tocowa Panola County, Small town that was a Public Peopling Places; NA None Towns name comes from 

southwest of health resort in the 1890s- 


“Ptoco,” a Chickasaw word 

Batesville 1900s because of the 

meaning healing, and 

reported healing powers of 

“wawa,” a Choctaw word for 

the water in the nearby 

water. Indians claimed the 

spring. 

water could heal braves 

wounded in battle. 

U.S. Post Office Panola County, Building constructed in Public Great Depression; NA None This mural, the only WPA 

Building in Batesville 1940 was the last large 

Peopling Places 

mural in Panola and one of a 

Batesville 

WPA project in Panola. A 

few in the state, depicts a 

WPA-commissioned mural 

cotton field scene: a river, a 

painted in 1941 hangs in 

gin, and a steamboat on the 

the building. 

river. 

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Mississippi Fred Panola County, Memorial marking the Public Expressing Cultural Other blues-related sites None None 

McDowell near Como. gravesite of bluesman 


memorial (in 

“Mississippi Fred” 

Hammond Hill 

M.B. Church) 

McDowell 

Devil’s Racetrack Quitman County Shallow depression in Public; some- History; Cultural NA Track and its story Local “mystery”: some say 

into Coahoma earth about 100 feet wide, times runs onto Diversity: Native 

known only to a few an earthquake created it; 

County, (track once used as a waterway private land Americans 

older townspeople; others, that Native Ameri- 

begins southeast by Native Americans 

in the 1980s there cans built it. “Engineering 

of Marks) 

was some talk about marvel” is same depth at all 

using it as a tourist locations. May have once 

attraction. gone to Mississippi River. 

Mack Pride Quitman County, Barber shop where country Private Cultural Diversity; NA None Charlie Pride paid for his 

Barber Shop/ Sledge 

singer Charley Pride’s 

Working People: 

first guitar by picking cotton 

Charley Pride’s 

father, Mack, worked from 


in Sledge. He left when was 

hometown 

1945 until recently. 

Values: music 

16. 

Charley Pride grew up in 

Sledge and spent time at 

the shop. 

(country) 

Producer’s Gin Quitman County, Modernized cotton gin that Private Working People: NA Tours available; Visitors have come to see 

Marks 

has operated since from 

cotton- centered 

must call in advance. this gin from Europe and 

the 1940s. 

experience 

During ginning other places all over the 

season (Sept.-mid 

Nov.) open 7 days a 

week, 24 hours a day 

Other-wise, 7 a.m. - 

3 p.m. five days a 

week. 

world. 

Wesley Bobo’s Sharkey County, Folk art environment Private Expressing Cultural Catfish Capital in None Bobo is a self-taught artist 

Roadside Dino- south of Rolling featuring huge metal 

Values: vernacular art Belzoni (Bobo 

who uses metal scraps and 

saurs 

Fork, near dinosaurs, giraffes, and 

constructed the giant 

other “throw-away” objects 

Egremont other animal creations, all 

catfish in front of 

to create sculptures. 

visible from Highway 61. 

museum) 

Onward Store Sharkey County, Country store built in 1913 Private Recreation; Building Smedes Plantation; A state historical Store sells teddy bears and 

Onward and still in operation, 

the American Theodore Roosevelt marker in front of features photographs docu- 

selling food and teddy 

Economy; Expressing bear hunt site store explains story menting Teddy Roosevelt’s 

bears (Teddy Roosevelt 


of the bear hunt. hunt. 

hunted bear nearby at 

Serves short orders, 

Smedes Plantation). 

lunches, (known for 

hamburgers). 

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Smedes Planta- Sharkey County, Location where Theodore Private Recreation; Natural Onward Store A state historical None 

tion, Site of Onward Roosevelt refused to shoot 

Resources 

marker on Highway 

Teddy Roosevelt 

a small captive bear cub on 

61 near the old 

Bear Hunt 

Nov. 14, 1902. The 

plantation describes 

incident is thought to have 

led to creation of the teddy 

bear. 

the incident. 

Muddy Waters’ Sharkey County, Town bluesman Muddy Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues sites, Delta Gazebo with plaque As a young child “Muddy” 

Birthplace Rolling Fork Waters considered his 

Expressing Cultural Blues Museum in honoring Waters moved to Stovall Plantation, 

hometown (he was born on 

Values: music (blues) Clarksdale 

stands on East China near Clarksdale. His brother 

a plantation just outside 

Street, across from still lives in Rolling Fork. 

Rolling Fork). 

the library. 

Craig Claiborne’s Sunflower Birthplace of celebrated Private Expressing Cultural Claiborne’s childhood None Claiborne wrote A Feast 

Birthplace County, chef and author Craig 

Values: literature, food home in Indianola 

Made For Laughter and was 

Sunflower Claiborne (born 1920) 

a food critic for the New 

York Times. 

Craig Claiborne’s Sunflower Colonial style house where Private Expressing Cultural Craig Claiborne’s None John Dollard, author of 

Childhood Home County, Indianola author/celebrated chef 

Values: literature, food birthplace in town of 

Caste and Class in a 

Claiborne grew up. His 

Sunflower 

Southern Town, was a 

mother ran a boarding- 

boarder at the Craig resihouse 

here. 

dence. Here he wrote his 

sociological study of the 

Delta. 

The Crown Sunflower Elegant restaurant set in a Private Agriculture; NA Open 12-2 p.m. Catfish pate and homemade 

Restaurant County, north of cottonfield. It serves 


Tuesdays through pies are best sellers. Antique 

Indianola nationally famous catfish 

Values: food 

Saturdays; mall attached to restaurant. 

pate 

reservations 

preferred. 

Where the Sunflower Intersection of the Yazoo Private Expressing Cultural Delta Blues Museum, State historical Once a meeting point for 

Southern Crosses County, Delta (or Yellow Dog) and 

Values: music Clarksdale 

marker explains Delta residents. Both black 

the Dog inter- Moorhead Southern Railroads (as 

significance. and white took the Yellow 

section 

celebrated in song by W. 

Dog from rural Mississippi 

C. Handy). Visitors can 

to Memphis. Original struc- 

stop at Roberts Country 

ture of cafe (1920) burned. It 

Store and adjoining 

Yellow Dog Cafe. 

was rebuilt in the 1980s. 

W. C. Handy Tallahatchie Marker showing where the Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues-related sites, Historical marker The story goes that Handy 

marker 

County, Tutwiler depot once stood in 

Expressing Cultural Delta Blues Museum in explains story. heard a man waiting at the 

Tutwiler, commemorating 


depot playing guitar and 

Handy’s “discovery” of 

singing about “goin’ where 

the blues. 

the Southern crosses the Dog 

(circa 1903).” 

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Dockery Farms Sunflower Once a large, well-known Private Building the American Other blues-related sites, NA Howlin’ Wolf (whose aunt 

County, between cotton plantation where 

Economy: cotton- Delta Blues Museum in 

lived at Dockery) learned to 

Cleveland and famous blues musicians 

centered experience; Clarksdale 

play from other bluesmen at 

Ruleville such as Charley Patton, 


Dockery; “Pops” Staples 

Henry Sloan, and Will 


grew up near the plantation 

Brown lived; Dockery is 

considered by many the 

birthplace of the blues. 


in Upper Dockery. 

B. B. King Sunflower Birthplace and childhood Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues-related sites, NA B. B. King’s handprints, 

birthplace County, Indianola home of blues musician B. 

Expressing Cultural Delta Blues Museum in 

footprints, and autograph are 

B. King. 


in town’s sidewalk at corner 

of 2nd and Church Streets. 

Charley Patton’s Sunflower Grave of legendary Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues-related sites, None Church deacons used to hire 

Grave at New County, Holly bluesman Charley Patton 


Patton to perform religious 

Jerusalem M.B. Ridge 


songs in the 30s. Gravesite is 

Church 

beside the Holly Ridge Gin. 

Parchman Prison Sunflower Operating prison once Private Working People; Other blues-related sites, Can make Faulkner described system 

County, Parchman used for the now-vilified 

Cultural Diversity; Delta Blues Museum in appointments for as “destination doom;” 

(and defunct) convict 

Expressing Cultural Clarksdale 

tours 

current scholars say it was 

leasing system. A 

Values: music 

“worse than slavery.” Prison 

sprawling enclave of 

held numerous now-famous 

15,700 acres. 

blues musicians: Eddie 

“Son” House, Bukka White 

(who recorded “Parchman 

Farm Blues” after his 

release). 

The Prentiss Sunflower Indian Mound 700-800 Private Spirituality; Native Other mounds NA Mound gained national 

Mound (also County, on Lake years old, 30-40’ high, 

Americans 

attention from a speech 

called the Dawson Dawson, south of once a temple used for 

made at by Seargent Smith 

Mound) Inverness ceremonial rites. Predates 

Prentiss (Whig lawyer from 

the Chocktaws and 

Vicksburg) on a 1841 bear 

Chickasaws who later 

settled the region. 

hunt. 

Sonny Boy Tallahatchie Grave and marker of Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues-related sites, None Grave is hard to find. Fans 

Williamson’s County, Tutwiler bluesman “Sonny Boy” 


often leave harmonicas, 

Grave (beside 

Williamson. (Building 


spare change, etc. on grave. 

Whitfield M.B. 

does not look like a 

Church) 

church.) 

First Monday Tippah County, Mississippi’s largest Public Working People; NA Saturday and Sunday More than 50 acres of 

Trade Day Ripley 

organized flea market, and 

Recreation; Building 

before first Monday vending stalls. Some items 

one of oldest in nation, has 

the American 

of each month. sold are rare birds, hunting 

operated continuously for 

Economy 

Brochures available dogs, southern foods, and 

more than 100 years. 

from Chamber of antiques. Totals 10,000- 

Commerce. 40,000 visitors per month. 

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Union Country Union County, Small museum housed in a Private Peopling Places, Faulkner sites Wall panels and None 

Heritage Museum New Albany former Catholic church, 


display cases 

offers exhibits on Faulkner 

and county history. 


Chickasaw burial Union County, State historical marker Private Spirituality; Native Other Native American Historical marker By signing the Treaty of 

mound: Ishteho- Ingomar identifies burial mound 

Americans 

sites 

tells story of how Pontotoc in 1832, the leader 

topah, (“great 

and surrounding land. 

Ishtehotopah ceded ceded the tribe’s lands to the 

leader”), last King 

tribal lands to U.S. U.S. and led the Chickasaws 

of the Chickasaw 

and led tribe to to southern Oklahoma, 

Nation 

Oklahoma. where they live today. 

The Frenchman’s Union County, Burial site surrounded by Public Working People, Parchman Prison Convict lease” Local legend says the man 

Grave 

between Tippah & white picket fence where 


laborers were used to got word of his wife’s grave 

Union 

French immigrant prisoner 


extend the Ripley illness and so tried to escape, 

tried to escape from the 

Economy; Law 

Railroad in late but he was shot. 

chain gang, but was shot. 

Enforcement 

1870s. One of 80 

such laborers, a 

Frenchman, is said to 

have been wrongly 

accused but could 

not speak English to 

defend himself. 

Biedenharn Warren County, Small museum containing Vicksburg Recreation; Building NA Guided tours Building was constructed in 

Museum of Coca- Vicksburg old Coke bottles, bottle Foundation for the American 

available; wall 1890. Coke was invented in 

Cola Memorabilia 

machine, advertisements, Historic Economy 

panels and reading Atlanta in 1886 but sold 

and 1900 soda fountain Preservation 

materials provide only as a fountain drink. It 

housed in the original 

additional was first bottled in Vicks- 

building where Coke was 

first bottled in 1894. 

information. burg in 1894. 

Waterways Warren County, Research, testing, and Public Natural Resources; NA Open to public 8-4 Automated models, tape 

Experiment Vicksburg development facility for 

People versus Nature 

Mon.-Fri.; brochure recordings, videos explain 

Station 

Army Corps of Engineers; 

and map available modern feats of engineering. 

early Mississippi River 

for self-guided tours. Visitors can see how COE 

development was pione- 

“tamed” Delta region’s 

ered here. 

environment. 

Margaret’s Warren County, Country grocery store built Private Building the American Earl’s Art Gallery Personal tours by The Rev. Dennis will give 

Grocery Vicksburg 1854, converted into folk 


Margaret and sermon to visitors during 

art environment that 

Cultural values; 

husband, Rev. H. D. visits. Good examples of 

conveys a religious/ 

Spirituality 

Dennis. Open 7 days; southern folk art. 

patriotic message. 

should call before 

visiting. 

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Earl’s Art Gallery Warren County, Folk art environment Private Building the American Margaret’s Grocery in $2 admission to see Family photos, old 

near Vicksburg. including art shop, 

Economy; Expressing Vicksburg 

Earl Simmons’s art newspaper clippings, and old 

museum, and restaurant. 


work; personal tours juke box. 

Built by folk artist Earl 

art; Vernacular 

led by Mr. Simmons. 

Simmons over 14 years 

from scrap lumber and 

other salvaged materials. 

architecture 

Freedmen’s Warren County, Antebellum building that Private Building the American NA Self- guiding Bank, operated by whites for 

Savings and Trust Vicksburg once housed the Freed- 


walking tours can be the benefit of African- 

County 

men’s Savings and Trust 

Diversity 

arranged through Americans, was one of three 

Company. 

tourism office. operating in Mississippi. 

Union Savings Warren County, Second African-American- Private Building the American NA Self-guided walking Bank started in 1903. 

Bank 

Vicksburg owned bank in the state 


tours can be 

was once housed here. 

Diversity 

arranged. 

Lincoln Savings Warren County, The first African- Private Building the American NA Self-guided walking Bank was founded and 

Bank 

Vicksburg, North American-owned bank in 


tours can be organized by African- 

Washington St. Mississippi was housed 

Diversity 

arranged. 

Americans. Also in the 

(4th building from here; it opened in 1902 and 

building were offices of 

the corner) was dissolved in 1909. 

prominent African- 

Americans and their 

organizations. 

Bogue Memorial Washington Burial site of blues Public Cultural Diversity; Other blues sites Open to public Difficult to find. 

Cemetery; James County, outside of musician James “Son” 


‘Son’ Thomas’s Leland 

Thomas, who was buried 

Values: music {blues) 

gravesite 

here on July 3, 1993. 

C & G Railroad Washington Station built ca. 1880 for Private Building the American NA A full service Visitors cannot enter the 

Depot 

County, train line that ran around 


restaurant, The town because of fire 

Greenville Greenville; exhibits dis- 

C&G, is also located hazards. 

play railway architecture 

from days of thriving 

railroads. 

in the depot. 

How Joy Washington Oldest Chinese restaurant Private Cultural Diversity; NA Restaurant. Founder Greenville has a relatively 

Restaurant County, in Mississippi; operated 


followed relatives strong Chinese community. 

Greenville since 1968 by Cantonese 


into the Delta in the First immigrants came as 

immigrants who moved 

the American 

1940s 

indentured servants to work 

here in the 1940s. 

Economy 

on railroads after Civil War. 

St. Joseph Roman Washington Gothic Revival Church Private Spirituality NA NA Church is replica of cath- 

Catholic Church County, built in 1907, designed by 

edral in Harlan, Holland. 

Greenville a Dutch nobleman, Fr. P. J. 

Korstenbroek, who is 

memorialized in William 

Alexander Percy’s novel 

Lanterns on the Levee. 

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Doe’s Eat Place Washington Nationally famous Private Cultural Diversity; NA Restaurant. Famous Establishment still resembles 

County, restaurant in a shotgun 


for steaks and a “mom and pop” grocery. 

Greenville style frame building. 

Values: food 

tamales, favorites of In the 1930 it was 

Opened as a grocery by 

Elvis Presley and speakeasy. 

Italian immigrant parents 

of Dominic “Doe” Signa 

in 1903. 

President Clinton. 

The Wilmont Washington Country store built in Private Building the American NA Open 6 a.m. - 8 p.m. Serves short orders for farm 

Store 

County, south of 1940s, still in original 

Economy 

Monday - Friday; 6 lunches. Displays Civil War 

Leland 

condition and still sells 

a.m. - 7 p.m. Satur- saddles, old coffee grinders, 

groceries. 

days; open on Sundays 

during planting 

and harvesting 

seasons. 

and antiques in store. 

U.S. Department Washington Largest USDA research Private Building the American Birthplace of the “Frog” Safety concerns Father of “Muppets” creator 

of Agriculture County, facility east of the Missis- 

Economy; Agriculture Exhibit, Greenville. preclude individual Jim Henson was employed 

Aquatic Research Stoneville sippi. Five operational 

tours, but adjoining by USDA in Stoneville, 

Center 

cotton gins and USDA’s 

building houses where family lived on the 

gin lab; shows ginning 

display outlining grounds. Stoneville is also 

techniques from 1950s to 

Stoneville’s role in birthplace of mechanical 

present. 

agricultural research. cotton picker and pondraised 

catfish. 

Birthplace of the Washington Exhibit telling about Jim Private Expressing Cultural U.S. Department of Photos, memorabilia Henson played along the 

Frog (Jim County, Henson’s childhood days 

Values 

Agriculture Aquatic 

banks of Deer Creek near 

Henson) Exhibit Greenville in Stoneville; stories 

Research Center in 

Stoneville. This inspired 

(at Greenville 

behind creations such as 

Stoneville (where 

Kermit, which he first 

Chamber of 

Kermit the Frog. 

Henson’s father worked 

created as a 7th grader and 

Commerce) 

and family lived) 

later named after a childhood 

friend. 

Avon Grocery Washington Former railroad depot built Private Building the American NA General store Owned by same family since 

County, Avon in 1880s, now a country 

Economy 

the 1920s, once used as their 

store selling dry goods and 

house. Present owner lived 

groceries. 

there as a child. Old photos 

and original deeds hang on 

wall. 

Store Washington Country store from 1940s. Private Building the American NA Plate lunches served Post office is also housed in 

County, Chatham Displays collection of 

Economy 

during harvesting store; owner hand-delivers 

cotton scales, old bottles, 

and planting seasons mail. 

and antique tools associ- 

(Oct.-Nov. and 

ated with cotton farming. 

April) 

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Mt. Horeb M.B. Washington Church established and Private Spirituality; Cultural NA NA None 

Church County, built by six former slaves. 

Diversity 

Greenville First church erected by 

African-Americans in 

Greenville. 

Mississippi. River Washington Levee built to “hold back” Public People versus Nature NA Visitors can walk on Visitors can walk along the 

Levee (Greenville County, the Mississippi River. In 

top of the levee. levee at the downtown 

waterfront) Greenville 1927 the levee broke in 

waterfront between Main 

Greenville, flooding the 

Delta. 

and Central. 

Live Oaks Washington Historically all African- Public Spirituality; Cultural Onward Store, Smedes Historical marker at Holt Collier led the hunting 

Cemetery County, American cemetery where 

Diversity; history Plantation 

entrance of cemetery expedition in which Teddy 

Greenville, former slave and bear hunt 

explains Collier’s Roosevelt refused to shoot 

leader Holt Collier is 

story. 

the bear, thus launching the 

buried. 

creation of the teddy bear. 

Collier had trapped the bear 

for Roosevelt to shoot. 

Sacred Heart Washington Church where, in 1913, Private Spirituality; Cultural Live Oaks Cemetery State historical Across street from church is 

Roman Catholic County, missionaries started a 

Diversity 

(Holt Collier grave); marker; guided tours Holt Collier Street, named 

Church and Greenville, school for black youth. In 

Onward Store; Smedes available upon re- for former slave who guided 

Seminary 

1920 they formed the first 

Plantation 

quest. Hard to find; 1907 Teddy Roosevelt bear 

U.S. seminary for training 

should call before hunt. 

black priests. 

visiting. 

Rattlesnake Washington Area where slaves built a Public Slavery; People versus NA Historical marker NA 

Bayou 

County, levee in 1840s to protect 

Nature 

identifies the levee 

Greenville area homes and fields. 

Winterville Indian Washington Pre-Columbian mound Public Prehistory; 

NA Onsite museum open NA 

Mounds State County, complex of 15 mounds, 

Spirituality; Native 

Wed.-Sat. 8-5, Sun. 

Park and Museum Winterville- including Temple Mound, 

Americans 

1-5; closed Mon.six 

stories (60 feet) tall, 

Tue, Admission $1; 

constructed by predeces- 

kids $0.50. Tells 

sors of Chickasaw and 

story of “lost tribes 

Choctaw Tribes. 

of Winterville.” 

Ruins of St. Washington Ruins of a church (conse- Public Spirituality; Civil War NA Lead from stained- None 

John’s Episcopal County, near Mt. crated in 1857) that was 

glass windows from 

Church Holly on bank of destroyed in 1907 by a 

the church was used 

Lake Washington tornado. 

for bullets in Civil 

War. 

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St. Mathews AME Washington Church was organized in Private Spirituality; Cultural NA NA First AME church estab- 

Church County, 1867 on Levee Street and 

Diversity 

lished in the Delta and 

Greenville later moved to present site. 

fourth in state. Since being 

moved to its present site in 

1890, it has been visited by 

President Herbert Hoover 

(1927), Langston Hughes 

(1931), and opera singer 

Leontyne Price (1949). 

Greenville Washington Exhibit showcasing works Public Expressing Cultural Eudora Welty library, No admission Greenville claims more 

Writers’ Exhibit, County, and memorabilia of Green- 

Values: literature Jackson 

charge. Open 8-5 published writers per capita 

William Alex- Greenville ville’s hometown writers: 

Mon.-Sat. Books, than any other U.S. town, 

ander Percy 

Shelby Foote, Ellen Doug- 

silk screen panels, among them Hodding Carter 

Memorial Library 

las, others (see 

photos, etc. II, Hodding Carter III, 


Walker Percy, Clifton L. 

Taubert, Beverly Lowry, 

Bern and Franke Keating, 

David L. Cohn, Robert Hill 

Neill. 

Wilkinson County Wilkinson County museum with Private Cultural Diversity; NA Museum offers None 

Museum County, exhibits on Southern 


morning lectures and 

Woodville Jewish experience and 

site visits; staff and 

African-American history 

exhibits can give 

information 

William Grant Wilkinson Marker on courthouse Public Cultural Diversity; NA Marker explains that None 

Still Marker County, square dedicated to 


Still is an 

Woodville Woodville native William 

Values: music 

internationally 

Grant Still, African- 

American composer 

(classical) 

known composer. 

Jewish Cemetery Wilkinson Town cemetery for Jewish Public Spirituality; Cultural Wilkinson County Open to public Many tombstone inscriptions 

County, people. It was used 

Diversity 

Museum 

are in Hebrew. Today there 

Woodville extensively from Civil 

are no Jewish residents; 

War through World War I. 

most were farmers who were 

ruined with the arrival of the 

boll weevil. 

Pond Store Wilkinson Country store constructed Private Building the American NA Open 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. None 

County, near in 1881. 

Economy 

daily; tours of store 

Woodville 

available by 

appointment; 

admission $2.50. 

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Casey Jones Yazoo County, Museum in old depot near Public Building the American Other railroad sites Wall panels, photos, Museum tells story of 

Railroad Museum Vaughn site of infamous crash that 


and railroad Casey’s Train, “the Cannon- 


took Casey Jones’s life 


memorabilia ball.” An authentic steam 

honors Jones and tells 

Values: music (folk) 

engine, No. 841, is displayed 

story of railroads in 

Mississippi. 

next to the museum. 

Oakes African Yazoo County, Museum with exhibits Private Cultural Diversity NA Open Mon.-Sat. 9-12 None 

American Cultural Yazoo City detailing African- 

and 1-4; Sundays, 1- 

Center 

American contributions to 

4. Wall panels, 

the arts, Civil Rights, and 

artifacts, photos, 

education. 

guided tours. 

Duke Carter Yazoo County, Museum containing Private Cultural Diversity; NA Open Monday - Duke Carter’s hobby was 

Museum Yazoo City collection of a former 


Friday 8-4; closed tool collecting. Includes 

Yazoo resident who 

Saturday and wood planes, blacksmith 

collected tools. 

Sunday. Guided tools, railroad equipment, 

tours available and other early 20th century 

inventions. 

Greg Harkins Yazoo County, Old country barn where Private Expressing Cultural NA Personal tours of Visitors can learn about 

Chairs (Harkins’ Vaughn, nationally acclaimed 

Values; Working 

shop available; traditional chair-making 

Woodworks) 

chairmaker crafts oak 

People 

should call in ad- techniques. Harkins, a 

rockers. World celebrities 

vance. Harkins has descendant of Irish immi- 

and four presidents have 

been featured by rants, learned craft from a 

bought Harkins chairs. 

magazines American lifetime maker of chairs and 

Woodworking, Es- has received an award from 

quire, and Fine the Mississippi Arts Com- 

Woodworking. ission. 

Boyhood home of Yazoo County, House where author Willie Private Expressing Cultural The Hoka, Oxford NA Morris, who now lives in 

Willie Morris Yazoo City Morris lived in childhood; 


Oxford, wrote about his days 

family moved here in 

in Yazoo in Good Old Boy, 

1940. 

published in 1971. 

Witch’s Grave in Yazoo County, Cemetery where a grave Public Expressing Cultural Boyhood Home of Information The 1904 fire destroyed over 

Glenwood Yazoo City known as “the Witch’s 

Values: literature; local Willie Morris available at Yazoo 200 homes and most 

Cemetery 

grave” is surrounded by 

legends 

City visitor center. businesses. Story of the 

chain-link fence. 

“Witch of Yazoo” is witch is told in Willie 

blamed for fire of Morris’s book Good Old 

1904. 

Boy. 

Country Charm Webster County, Assortment of 12 buildings Private Peopling Places; None Knowledgeable One log cabin that has been 

Antiques & Eupora on 1-acre site with six log 


owner Beth Farnell reassembled was a hospital 

Museum 

cabins; two buildings serve 

Vernacular 

prefers arranged in Civil War. Museums 

as antique store; others are 

Architecture; early 

appointments, but include a 1700 smokehouse, 

museums with different 

history; Civil War; 

usually there noon-4 a country store, antique 

motifs. 

Spirituality; Education 

on weekends. $3 washing machines and 

admission; children washboards, a toolhouse, 

under 12, free. schoolhouse, chapel, etc. 

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Cactus Plantation Hinds County, World’s only cactus Private Natural Resources; Other Civil War sites Free admission Contains cacti, succulents, 

Edwards, plantation has 3,500 

Civil War 

Monday-Saturday, 9- bromeliads, etc. The Battle 

varieties of exotic cacti, 

5; Sunday, 1-5 of Champion Hill was 

succulents, etc. 

fought on this site. 

Canton Flea Madison County, Crafts fair about 33 years Public Building the American First Monday Trade Second Thursday in Parking is expensive; shuttle 

Market Canton, old draws more than 500 

Economy; Expressing Day, Ripley; other flea October and May buses available. Showcases 

vendors from all over to 

Cultural Values markets and craft shows each year on second much of historic Canton; 

sell fine art, pottery, 

Thursdays in Oc- thousands of visitors come. 

jewelry, antiques, and 

tober and May; In between shopping, local 

plants. 

should make ar- people will relate stories 

rangementsbefore- about John Grisham filming 

hand; come early. A Time To Kill exclusively 

in Canton. 

Mrs. L. V. Hull’s Attala County, Apparent junkyard with Private Expressing Cultural NA No admission, Colorful yard contains 

House 

Kosciusko, collection of many items, 

Values 

donations accepted. hobbyhorses, clocks, old TV 

leading into a tiny house. 

sets, etc., that some see as 

folk art. Shoe tree is of 

particular interest. 

Dennis Mitchell Covington A working farm that offers Private Agriculture; Working NA Check times for Farm has a restored log 

Farms 

County, Collins peanuts and pick-your- 

People; Expressing 

picking as well as cabin with an outhouse. In 

own vegetables during 


different seasons addition, Nelda Mitchell is a 

season. 

art 

folk artist who creates beautiful 

wood sculpture and 

other art works. 

Tutwiler Tallahatchie Started in 1988; offers Public Working People; NA Items are also This activity of the Tutwiler 

Mississippi Quilts County, Tutwiler, quilts, quilted bags, pot 


available by mail Community Education Cen- 

holders, table runners, etc., 

Values; Cultural 

order 

er began in 1988. Area 

made by Tutwiler Quilters 

Diversity 

wom-en use proceeds from 

in the Afro-American 

sales to support themselves 

quilting tradition. 

and their families. 

Collins Exotic Covington Home for exotic pets Private Natural Resources NA $3 admission Said to be more personal 

Animal County, Collins, (lions, panthers, alligators) 

than zoos. 

Orphanage 

that original owners 

abandoned when they 

began growing up. 

Sue’s Ceramics Covington Ceramics shop operated Private Expressing Cultural Lazy M Emu Open year-round. Owner Sue McCall sells the 

County, Collins year-round in owner’s 

home; offers seasonal 

ceramics as well as general 

pieces. 

Values 

ceramic pieces herself. 

Lazy M Emu Covington Enoch McCall, husband of Private Natural Resources Sue’s Ceramics Public may visit None 

County, Collins, Sue McCall, raises emus; 

public can visit. 

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Roger’s Basketry Covington Roger Jamison, a self- Private Spirituality; Martha’s Kitchen Visitors should not Baskets, made by using only 

County, Mt. Olive taught young basketmaker, 


come on Sunday a pocket knife, scissors, and 

began crafting baskets 

Values 

which is a holy day. a tape measure, are made of 

after an aunt gave him a 

split rattan either left in 

book on basketmaking. He 

natural color or dyed with 

is a member of Old Order 

the use of pecan shells. They 

German Baptists, whose 

come in a variety of styles 

lifestyles resemble those of 

the Amish. 

and are very popular. 

Kosciusko Attala County, Museum dedicated to the Public Cultural Diversity NA Open daily 1-4 p.m. This historic town has a 

Museum Kosciusko, town’s namesake, Revolu- 

(Kosciusko did not live 

number of grand homes; 

tionary War hero Thad- 

in Mississippi; he was 

museum exhibits show this. 

deus Kosciusko. 

Polish), regional 

history 

Mississippi De Soto County, Recently opened store in Private Building the American NA Open Monday- Mark Twain referred to the 

Treasures Southaven, an old building promises 

Economy 

Saturday, 9-7; cobalt windows of the 

“antiques only.” Dealing 

Sundays, 10-6. structure ( still untouched) in 

with over 50 vendors, 

owners Brenda and Kim 

Mahan offer everything 

from bedroom pieces to 

Civil War trinkets. 

Life on the Mississippi. 

Levee Plantation Tunica County, Cook house about 100 Private Vernacular 

NA Rented as a guest- Inside of house has been 

Guesthouse Tunica 

years old on a working 

Architecture 

house for short stays. renovated, but outside 

farm. 

structure is intact with porch 

and screen. 

Hotel-Cafe Marie Tunica County, Hotel opened in 1918; had Private Architecture; Building The Blue & White Hotel service 24 The original staircase and 

Tunica 

not operated for 30 years; 

the American Restaurant has a picture hours a day; restau- door frame separating lobby 

reopened in 1995. 

Economy 

of the Hotel Marie in its rant is open week- from the cafe are preserved; 

early days 

days for lunch and original exposed brick wall 

dinner; for dinner 

only on weekends. 

is in every room. 

Annual Riverside Jackson County, Largest Blues festival Public Festivals; Expressing Other Blues sites Festival is in July None 

Blues Festival Riverside Park between Chicago, St. 


each year; must call 

Louis, and Memphis. 

(blues) 

and confirm date, as 

dates vary 

Freedman Town Lafayette County, Recently erected marker Public Civil War; Cultural Other Civil War sites Marker can be seen None 

Marker Oxford indicating where freedmen 

from Oxford and Lafayette 

area settled after Civil 

War. The areas encompassed 

Jackson Avenue, 

Price Street, the railroad, 

and 9th Street. 

Diversity; Civil Rights 

easily at any time. 

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Second Baptist Lafayette County, Two frame church build- Private Spirituality; Civil War; Freedman Town Marker Visitors can drive 

Church Oxford ings were built here in 

1873 by recently freed 

men. One was mysteriously 

destroyed by fire. 

The stone Second Baptist 

Church was built in 1911 

and replaced with current 

building in 1986. 


by. 

The Dinner Bell Pike County, Restaurant in a colonial - Private Expressing Cultural Revolving Tables Restaurant closed 

McComb style structure features 

Values: food 

Mondays. Features 

round-table dining and 

Southern style 

Southern cuisine. 

cooking. 

Marshall County 

Historical 

Museum 

Hugh Lawson 

White Mansion 

Kearney Park 

Farms 

Marshall County, 

Holly Springs 

Marion County, 

Columbia 

Madison County, 

Flora 

Museum in a 1903 building 

contains a war room 

featuring materials from 

War of 1812 to the Korean 

War; also has a Civil War 

memorial exhibit, historical 

clothing, dolls and 

tools. There is a Plantation 

Room and a reading 

library. 

House in Spanish Colonial 

Revival Style. One of Mississippi’s 

finest houses, 

begun 1925; completed 

1927. Home of former 

governor Hugh Lawson. 

Original dining room 

furniture and drapery from 

Chicago’s Marshall Fields 

are intact. 

Quail-hunting facility 

offering tours and overnight 

accommodations. 

Public Military History; 


Agriculture; Spirituality; 

Education 

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Country Charm, other 

Civil War sites 

Private Architecture None By appointment 

only; tours conducted 

once a month. 

Private Recreation NA October through 

March, official quail 

hunting season. 

There is a per bird 

charge. 

None 

COMMENTS 

Building was a boardinghouse 

in the 1940s. After it 

was moved in 1961, the 

round tables were adopted to 

make eating easier. 

Regular hours. Building was constructed as 

part of Mississippi 

Synodical College, 

previously the Maury 

Institute (a women’s college 

founded in 1883) and the 

North Mississippi 

Presbyterian College 

(founded in 1890, merged 

with Belhaven in 1939). 

One of two in the area; the 

other was built by White for 

a member of his 

government. Inside are also 

floor-to-ceiling murals done 

by an artist from Malta. 

Quail hunting is not a 

common pastime in this 

area. Quails are not 

indigenous to state, so birds 

are released.

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Mt. Zion Baptist Madison County, Church organized 1865; Private Spirituality; Cultural Other Civil War sites; People can drive by 

Church Canton now housed in a building 

constructed in 1929. 

Diversity; Civil War churches 

and see the church. 

The Blue & White 

Restaurant 

Howcott 

Monument 

The Kate Freeman 

Clark Art Gallery 

Palestinian 

Gardens 

Tunica County, 

Tunica 

Madison County, 

Canton 

Marshall County, 

Holly Springs 

George County, 

north of Lucedale 

Old Jail Yalobusha 

County, Water 

Valley 

Restaurant in same location 

since 1937; it was 

once a restaurant and 

service station. Pictures of 

Tunica of yesteryear dot 

the walls. Gas pumps still 

outside. Has been featured 

on CNN. 

Erected between 1894 and 

1900 by William Howcott 

to honor his body servant, 

Willis Howcott, who 

presumably died in battle 

(Civil War). 

Gallery opened in 1962. 

Artist Kate Freeman Clark 

left a trust for the purpose. 

Gallery contains 1,200 of 

her paintings, starting with 

those she painted in the 

1890s. Also contains 

books and furniture. 

Rev. Harvell Jackson and 

wife’s version of the Holy 

Land, created in 1960, 

rests on 20 acres of land. 

Jericho, Bethlehem, 

Nazareth, and the Jordan 

River are just a sample. 

Small gift shop. 

19th century jail closed to 

the public, but used for 

meetings by the county 



the American 

Economy 

Public Civil War; Cultural 

Diversity 

Kate Freeman 

Trust 

Private, nonprofit 



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Other restaurants Open regularly. 

Known for fresh 

turnip greens 

everyday; unique 

delicacies like 

scrambled pork 

brains. Owner is 

friendly and can 

answer a lot of 

questions. 

Other Civil War sites, 

especially those 

pertaining to slaves 

Visitors can drive by 

and see memorial. 

NA Tours by appointment 

only, but flexible. 

Bea Green studied 

art under Kate 

Freeman Clark who 

was related to 

Green’s family. 

Spirituality NA Open year-round 

from 8-6 weekdays; 

1-6 Sundays. Admission 

charged. Scenic 

and peaceful, tour 

takes about an hour. 

Public Local history, Law 

Enforcement 

NA Not open to the 

public 

COMMENTS 

Before the Civil War and the 

signing of the Emancipation 

Proclamation, African- 

American members worshipped 

with white Baptist 

Church members. 

Restaurant began in 1924 at 

Old Hwy 61. First of the 

Blue & White chain and 

only one of its kind left. Mr. 

Wiley first bought the Blue 

& White in 1969, sold it and 

bought it again. There is a 

1937 framed newsclipping 

of the opening. 

Not much known about the 

nature of the stature. Harley 

Howcott, Sr. (relation to 

either unknown) of New 

Orleans says “slaves often 

accompanied their owners 

into battle . . .” 

Clark was a versatile artist, 

using everything from charcoal 

to watercolor. Her art is 

exhibited under the name 

Freeman Clark. The house 

Clark lived in is next door; it 

is rented out. 

Rev. Harvell believed that to 

understand the Bible, people 

should be familiar with 

places central to scripture. It 

is now run by Cindy and 

Don Bradley, friends of the 

Jackson children; they plan 

to install life-size crosses 

and to depict Paul’s Journey. 

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Springdale Hills Hinds County, 104 acres with trails Private Natural Resources; Crosby Arboretum Tours seem to be 

Arboretum Pocahontas through natural areas, 

containing over 150 

species of trees, ponds for 

fishing, picnic areas. Ruins 

of an 1830s mansion are 

on property. 

Architecture 

given reluctantly. 

Old Log Cabin on Smith County, Partially ruined log cabin Private Vernacular 

Old House facing Jean Norris Stennett 

Norris Family Taylorsville built around 1848-1850; 

Architecture; Early Gambrell Street does not mind 

Farm 

has a separate kitchen 

Life; Peopling Places 

visitors looking at 

(different building) so that 

entire house would not 

burn if kitchen caught fire. 

the cabin. 

Old Norris House Smith County, 

Taylorsville 

The Eaton Home Smith County, 

between 

Taylorsville and 

Bay Springs 

The Key Brothers 

Aviation Pictorial 

Exhibit at 

Meridian 

Regional Airport 

General Arthur 

Fox’s Greek 

Revival Cottage 

Jewel Thomas’s 

House 

Lauderdale 

County, Meridian 

Lawrence County, 

Wanilla 

Carroll County, 

Carrolton 

House built in 1905 by 

Seaborn Norris has six 

rooms, a large hall, and a 

bathroom that was added 

later. 

Two-story house documented 

as being from 

about 1838, possibly older, 

has four original rooms. 

Had a kitchen on back, but 

that burned down. House 

put together with hand- 

made nails and pegs. 

Key Brothers set the world 

endurance record in 1935. 

Exhibit reviews their 

achievements and Meridian 

Airport’’ aviation 

history. 

Built in 1848, house has 

been restored. General Fox 

fought in the War of 1812. 

House decorated with a 

collage of farming and 

automotive tools. 

Private Early Life; Vernacular 

Architecture 

Private Early Life; 

Architecture 

Public Transportation: 

aviation 

Private Architecture; Military 

History 


Values: folk art; 


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Old Log Cabin (Stennett 

Street) 

Old Log Barn with Fruit 

Cellar 

Sparta Community 

Airport; Hunter Field 

(Randolph County, IL) 

Jean Norris 

Stennett’s sister 

controls this 

property. She 

currently rents the 

house out. 

E. Howard Eaton is 

amenable to people 

seeing the house. He 

really believes that 

the house is older 

than 1838. 

Visitors are not a 

problem; exhibit can 

be seen when airport 

is open. 

NA Can drive by and 

see. 

None 

COMMENTS 

Norris Family Farm (run by 

Roland Norris) has been in 

the Norris family since 

great-grandfather acquired it 

through the Homestead Act. 

Was honored by Jim “Buck” 

Ross as 100-year farm. 

Part of 136 acres that has 

never been outside the 

Norris family. The greatgrandfather 

came from 

Covington County, to which 

he had come from South 

Carolina. 

The house is mentioned in 

papers about a 1932 WPA 

Project on Smith County; 

this is the documentation 

that dates it to 1838 or 1840. 

These brothers broke the 

endurance record established 

by the Hunter brothers in 

1929. 

None 

NA Open to visitors. Owner is a retired truck 

driver and pulpwood cutter.


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COMMENTS 


Graceland Too Marshall County, Antebellum home filled Private Expressing Cultural Other Presley-related Tours by two full- Contains original recordings, 

Holly Springs with collection of Elvis 

Values: music sites 

time occupants ticket stubs from last 

Presley memorabilia. 

Monday-Sunday, concert, large newspaper/ 

noon-8 p.m. video archive. 

Jerry Clower Amite County, Personal collection of Private Recreation; Expressing NA Open Mon.-Fri. 10- Clower grew up in Amite 

Museum west of Liberty comic memorabilia of 


2:30, no charge. County; played football for 

“America’s favorite 

Tours by appoint- Mississippi State. Comedian 

country comedian” 

ment, usually con- has decades of laughs to fall 

accumulated over a long 

ducted by a paid tour back on. 

career. 

guide. From time to 

time, Jerry Clower 

and wife are home. 

Site of Battle of Yalobusha Civil War Battlefield Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Recently erected Cemetery on site; soldiers 

Coffeeville County, near 

marker, funds are from both sides are buried 

Coffeeville 

available for more there. One soldier was 

development. buried standing up; tombstone 

resembles a chimney. 

Ole Opry House Lincoln County, Built around 1948 as a Private Expressing Cultural Other Country Now contains a Earl Ward approached Har- 

Brookhaven barn, now in use as a 

Values: music Music/Bluegrass sites beauty shop. rison Case about converting 

beauty shop, but was used 

(country); Recreation 

barn to a club so daughter, 

in the 1970s as Opry 

Lisa Ward, and group Hy- 

House on Saturday night. 

lites could perform. Other 

A stage was built, and 

groups: McCall Creek 

groups came from MS, 

Bluegrass, Cash McCool 

AL, and LA. Advertised in 

[New Orleans], Gospel 

Vicksburg and Jackson 

artists Aaron Gillis and Ken 

papers (see “Comments”). 

Stevens. 

Gertrude Smith’s Covington Cattle barn converted to a Private Working People; Kate Freeman Clark Art Artist lives and Has participated in several 

Barn 

County, Collins studio/art gallery. Contains 

Expressing Cultural Gallery 

works here. Can call area events. 

paintings done by Smith 

ranging from nature to 

abstract, but mostly 

abstract. 


before dropping by. 

Whitworth Lincoln County, Set of three buildings atop Public Education NA Potential will not be The location of the buildings 

College for Brookhaven a hill; they once formed a 

fulfilled until on the hilltop gives them the 

Women 

women’s college started 

restoration is appearance of being in a 

by Reverend M. K. Whitworth 

in 1859. Date of 

closing uncertain. 

completed. separate world. 

Town of D’Lo Simpson County; During WW II, 150 of town’s approximately Military history; local Other war-related sites Do not believe there None 

D’Lo 

400 citizens served in military. 

history 

is a marker. 

Prentiss City Hall Jefferson Davis Courthouse built in 1903 Public Architecture; Local NA Can drive by None 

County, Prentiss and still in use. 

Government 

anytime 

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Prentiss Normal Jefferson Davis Junior college founded in Private Education; Cultural William Holtzclaw, Has been closed The Johnsons Organized the 

and Industrial County, Prentiss May 1907 by Laurel native 

Diversity 

Piney Woods since early 1990s; at Committee of One Hundred, 

Institute 

Jonas Edward Johnson and 

one time tours were which now is continued by 

his wife, J. E. (Bertha) 

permitted. coalition of 100 black 

Johnson, a Wesson native. 

They had no money and 

two babies in arms. 

women and others. 

William H. Hinds County, Library named after Utica Public Education; Cultural Prentiss Institute; Piney NA Pictures of Holtzclaw hang 

Holtzclaw Utica 

Institute Founder, which, 

Diversity 

Woods; William 

on the wall and a bust stands 

Library; Utica 

as Utica Institute, educated 

Holtzclaw House 

in library. His autobiography 

Institute 

African-American men 

and biography are also in the 

and women from 1903 

until it merged with Hinds 

County Junior College. 

library. 

William H. Hinds County, House of founder of Utica Public Education; Cultural Prentiss Institute, Piney House is closed and Utica Institute was founded 

Holtzclaw House Utica 

Institute, who was a native 

Diversity 

Woods; Holtzclaw inaccessible. House, 1903. Holtzclaw also 

(across from Utica 

of Alabama and a 

Library 

believed to have organized the Farmer’s 

Institute) 

Tuskegee graduate. 

been a plantation Conference, which helped 

house, was on this raise black farmers’ standard 

site before Holtzclaw of living. Like many black 

founded institute. college founders, he was 

very influential. He died in 

1943. 

Templeton Music Oktibbeha Museum housed in a 1910 Public Expressing Cultural Other music-related sites Open by appoint- None 

Museum and County, Starkville building on campus of 

Values: music 

ment only. 

Archives 

Mississippi State University. 

Includes an extensive 

collection of antique 

phonograph music boxes, 

recordings, sheet music, 

and Nipper Dogs. 

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Battlefield-Belmont Mississippi County Civil War Battlefield: Nov Private Civil War Other Civil War sites None None 

near East Prairie 7, 1861, U.S. Grant’s first 

Civil War engagement. 

Attacked town of Belmont 

from Mississippi River, 

forcing the Confederates 

to retreat after 4 hours of 

fighting. Overconfident, 

the Federals set no defenses 

and were driven 

back. 

Margaret Harwell Poplar Bluff Fine Arts Museum in an Private Recreation Museum None 

Art Museum 

1833 home houses a growing 

collection of works by 

contemporary Missouri 

artists. 

New Madrid New Madrid Exhibits on New Madrid Public The River/Civil War Island No. 10, Belmont Museum Also an observation deck 

Historical Museum 

earthquake, Civil War, 

Battlefield, Burnt Mill 

overlooking the 

Native Americans, and 

turn-of-the-century items 


Altenburg Perry County, Founded in 1839 by the Varies-see See individual sites See individual sites See individual sites Of seven closely grouped 

Altenburg congregation of Trinity individual sites 

Saxon Lutheran settle- 

Lutheran Church. First 

ments, only Altenburg, 

Missouri town established 

Frohna, and Uniontown 

for purely religious 

remain; Dresden, Seelitz, 

purposes. 

Johannisberg, and Wittenberg 

declined. 

Darnstaedt House Perry County, One-room log cabin built Private Vernacular 

Other Altenburg sites None In 1840, house accom- 

Altenburg c. 1839 

architecture 

modated Johann Darnstaedt, 

wife, and four 

children. 

Old Trinity Altenburg, Perry One-story structure, c. Private Spirituality Other Altenburg sites Building is now a None 

Lutheran Church County 

1845. Vernacular con- 

museum displaying 

struction, built with 

local church items, 

various sizes of limestone. 

including an 1845 

Converted in 1867 to a 

baptismal tray and 

school; closed in 1969. 

the original church 

bell, cast in Spain, 

1761. 

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Log Cabin College Altenburg, Perry One-story structure c. Public Spirituality Other Altenburg sites College has been None 

County 

1839. First Lutheran semi- 

semi-converted into 

nary west of Mississippi 

a museum with 

River; moved here in 1912 

from Dresden. From this 

evolved Concordia 

Seminary, oldest Lutheran 

institution of higher learning 

in Missouri. 

exhibits. 

Trinity Lutheran Altenburg, Perry Large church, c. 1866 Private Spirituality Other Altenburg sites Open to the public. Built from locally quarried 

Church 

Co. 

sandstone 

St. Laurence Scott County, near Built c. 1857 by Belgian Private Civil War Belmont Battlefield, No visitation No comment 

Catholic Church New Hamburg immigrants. Built with 

locally quarried stone. 

Church burned during the 

Civil War; only a shell of 

a church (just walls) 

remain. 

Burnt Mill, Island No. 10 

Iron County Iron County, Iron County’s first and Public Civil War Belmont Battlefield, Visitors may stroll Also on grounds, an 1898 

Courthouse Ironton 

only courthouse (enlarged 

Burnt Mill 

grounds, though not gazebo 

in 1964.) Two-story red 

much of the interior 

brick structure with Ital- 

is open to public. 

ianate influences. During 

Courthouse is still 

Civil War, each side occupied 

the courthouse twice. 

Bullet scars still visible. 

in use. 

Shot Tower Site Jefferson County, Bronze plaque Public Working 

Iron furnaces Downtown displays Town named for the 

Herculaneum 

People/Conflict 

some good exam- Roman town buried by 

between people and 

ples of late 19th Mount Vesuvius. Town 

nature 

century architec- founder Moses Austin 

ture. 

likened the smoke from the 

lead mines to that of 

Vesuvius. Town is 

evidence of Missouri’s 

mining heritage. Towers 

built c.1819. 

Sandy Creek Jefferson County, Built in 1872 to span Public Conflict between Shot Tower site, Iron None Bridge was one of six 

Covered Bridge Goldman Sandy Creek. Destroyed 

people and nature Furnace 

covered bridges along the 

in 1886 flood; rebuilt to 

Hillsboro-Lemay Ferry Rd 

same specifications. 

through the mining areas to 

St. Louis. Testament to the 

importance of mining in 

the area. 

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Doolittle Phelps County Small town established in Private Recreation Rolla Cemetery None Appearance has not 

1944, named for WW II 

changed a great deal; this 

General Jimmy Doolittle. 

section of Route 66 is 

On farmland along old 

rather well preserved. 

Route 66. Sights along 

Tours might be profitable, 

Route 66 in and near 

at least a brochure to 

Doolittle: Aaron’s Radia- 

illustrate the immense 

tor, Malone’s Service 

cultural impact of Route 

Station, Eisenhower 

Street. 

66. 

Topaz Mill Douglas County Built c.1893, Topaz Mill Private Native Americans; Shot Tower site, Cowan Maps are available Mill is in an idyllic setting, 

is reportedly the area’s 

Conflict between Cemetery 

at Mountain Grove seems to be begging for 

oldest mill. Built on the 

People and Nature 

Chamber of restoration and a visitor 

North Fork of the White 

Commerce center. There are other 

River by a Choctaw 

woman and her husband. 

mills in the area. 

Potosi Washington County Population 2,683. In 1797 Public/Private See individual sites See individual sites Chamber of Com- Sites: Creswell Furnace 

Moses Austin (father of 

merce provides map Chimney, Washington 

Stephen F. Austin) ac- 

and history of town. County Jail, Folk art 

quired a mine and 3 

cemetery, Museum/ Moses 

square miles of land as a 

Spanish grant. The mine 

became a successful yearround 

operation. It included 

a shot tower, a lead 

processing plant, mills, 

and stores. 

Austin’s grave 

Creswell Furnace Washington Stone ruins, built c. 1838; Private People vs. Nature; Shot Tower site, Iron None None 

Chimney County, Potosi only chimney remains. 

There was Scotch hearth 

here that had a daily 

output of 2.5 tons of pig 

lead. 

American Economy furnace 

Folk Art Cemetery Washington Behind a wood fence in Private Expressing Cultural Cowan cemetery None None 

County, near Potosi this cemetery lies the 

grave of Daley Nicholas, 

owner of Nicholas Farms. 

Monument includes two 

life-size plastic bulls and a 

carved headstone depicting 

a bull, a trailer, and a 

truck. 

Values 

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Museum/Moses Washington Built c. 1833. Washington Public Working People; Shot tower site, Cowan None None 

Austin’s grave County, Potosi County historical 

Expressing Cultural cemetery, other Potosi 

museum, formerly a 

Values; People versus sites 

Presbyterian Church 

(congregation disbanded 

1908). Houses local items 

pertaining to local culture: 

medicine, music, 

education, mining, etc. 

Austin’s grave lies in the 

adjacent cemetery. 

Nature 

Washington County County, Potosi Two-story brick jail with Public Peopling Places Other Potosi sites None Not much development 

jail 

stone foundation and iron 

available; this is still a 

bars, built in 1892. 

working jail; however, it is 

an interesting stop for a 

walking tour of Potosi. Not 

many jails this old are still 

in operation. 

Downtown Marble Bollinger County Numerous buildings from Public/Private Working people Log Cabin College Chamber of Com- The number of well- 

Hill 

late 19th and early 20th 

merce has bropreserved buildings gives 

centuries: Wisecarver bldg 

chures on town visitors a sense of a typical 

(two-story brick, 1893, 

histories and small Missouri town from 

across from courthouse); 

Conrad House (two-story 

granite, c. 1900); Will 

Mayfield College (1884- 

1930, several campus 

buildings remain, 

Mayfield Dr.) 

buildings. the turn of the century. 

Cowan Cemetery Wayne County Rural cemetery that fea- Private Native Americans; Burnt Mill, Belmont Cemetery is fairly Land was originally settled 

tures a tall, carved 1870 

Civil War 

Battlefield 

isolated. 

by Native Americans, then 

shaft, which marks the 

by the R.D. Cowan family. 

mass grave of seven Con- 

Brochures seem a viable 

federate soldiers shot by 

option; should be available 

Federal forces on May 28, 

1865. Testament to the 

fierce sectional conflict. 

in town. 

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Island No. 10 Scott County, New No longer exists; island 2 

Civil War Cowan Cemetery, New Madrid 

Madrid 

miles long, 0.5 miles wide 

blocked all river traffic 

during Civil War, was 

heavily protected by a 

floating battery of guns. 

Federal Gen. Pope was 

ordered to attack island. 

Belmont Battlefield Museum 

Catholic Cemetery Washington 

County, near 

Sullivan 

Murphey’s Furnace 

Chimney 

Washington 

County, near 

Washington State 


Local lore claims that 

Toussaint Charbonneau is 

buried here. Charbon-neau 

was the famous trapper, 

husband of Sacajawea, 

who served as guide and 

interpreter for the Lewis 

and Clark expedition. 

Pyramid-shaped rock 

chimney 40 feet tall marks 

the location of a lead 

smelting furnace built c. 

1848 by Irish immigrants. 

Old Mines Washington County Early lead diggings were 

conducted at this site by 

Creoles c. 1726. Village 

of Old Mines established 

c. 1802. Never incorporated, 

the town today is 

located in the original 

mining concession, a 

narrow strip of land 

paralleling SR 21 and Old 

Mines Creek. 

St. Joachim 

Catholic Church 

Washington 

County, just west 

of Old Mines 

Brick church with windows 

and doors in a 

cruciform design, built c. 

1828; restored in 1945. 

Original belfry, spire and 

stained glass windows. 

Adjacent cemetery has 

headstones with French 

inscriptions. 

Private Native Americans; 


Values 

Public Conflict between 

people and nature; 



Irish settlers 

Public/Private Cultural Diversity: 

Creole settlers 

Private Spirituality; Cultural 

Diversity: Creole 

settlers; Expressing 


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Cowan Cemetery None. Marker 

needed; the Lewis 

and Clark expedition 

began in 

Missouri. 

Shot Tower site, Iron 

furnace 


Chimney, Catholic 

cemetery, St. Joachim 

Catholic Church 

Odd Fellow cemetery, St. 

Mary of the Barrens, 


Chimney 

None; perhaps 

worth a brochure 

COMMENTS 

With 20,000 men, Pope 

took the town and island 

by cutting a 12-mile 

channel west from the 

Mississippi River to 

bayous emptying into a 

river near New Madrid. On 

April 18, 1862, the 

Confederates surrendered. 

Charbonneau was the husband 

of Sacajawea, a Shoshoni 

Indian who mediated 

between explorers and Indians 

during the expedition. 

She is honored by 

more monuments than any 

other Native American 

woman. 

Chimney is a testament to 

the importance of mining 

in the area, as well as the 

varied ethnic groups that 

settled here. 

None As recently as 1941, 

Creole customs and 

language were still evident. 

Supposedly these were 

some of Missouri’s first 

mines. 

None Cemetery had divided 

sections for Irish, slaves, 

freedmen and Native 

Americans. Near cemetery, 

two restored 19th century 

log cabins chinked with 

sections of split log and a 

mixture of clay and straw. 

Outside are original French 

bread ovens.

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Grace Lutheran Perry County, Church, vernacular Public Spirituality; Cultural St. Joachim Catholic None Uniontown is one of seven 

Church 

Uniontown architecture, built 1876. 

Diversity: German Church, Old Mines 

closely grouped Lutheran 

Brick frame and an 

Lutheran settlers 

communities. Townsite 

imposing steeple. Old 

settled 1839 by 15 charter 

cemetery behind church. 

members and called the 

Paitzdorf Settlement. 

Church’s present name 

adopted 1929 (was Old 

Lutheran Church of 

Paitzdorf for 90 years). 

Tower Rock/ Perry County, near Large rock formation. Public The river Sites in Altenburg None An interpretive sign or 

Superstition Rock Whittenburg. Rock When river is low, visitors 

brochure would help to 

is a short distance may walk to rock. During 

explain this story, which is 

from the banks of last century, settlers called 

indicative of the fears and 


site is in the river. 

this “superstition rock.” 

beliefs of early settlers. 

Odd Fellows Mississippi County, City cemetery. Buried Public Civil War St. Joachim Catholic Charleston Cham- None 

Cemetery Charleston here: Robert Anthony 

Church, Burnt Mill, ber of Commerce 

Hatcher (1819-1886), 

Missouri state representative, 

major in Confederate 

Army, representative in 

Confederate Congress. 

Island No. 10 

City Cemetery Cape Girardeau Cemetery features graves Public Cultural Diversity; St. Joachim Catholic Cape Girardeau Buried here: Alexander 

County, Cape of settlers and prominent 

Expressing Cultural cemetery, Grace Lutheran Cham-ber of Buckner (1785-1833), 

Girardeau townspeople. 

Values 

church, Odd Fellows Commerce Missouri state senator, 

cemetery 

member of Missouri State 

Legislature. 

Poplar Bluff Butler County, on Named for a dense copse Public/Private People versus Nature; Margaret Harwell Art City and historical Davis House: Folk Vic- 

U.S. Hwy 67 of yellow poplars that 

Vernacular 

Museum 

preservation groups torian, c. 1889, 19th 

early travelers used as a 

Architecture 

have maintained all century furnishings, 522 

land-mark. Grew rapidly 

sites and interpret Cherry Street. Spurlock 

as a trading and logging 

them. 

Cabin, c. 1900, turn of 

center. Many sites in 

century furnishings, W. 

town. Historical Museum: 

Davis at 13th Street. Frisco 

early 20th century build- 

Depot, 1927, No longer in 

ing, houses, logging- 

use; caboose and baggage 

related tools and local 

car display, railroad 

items. 

memorabilia. 

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St. Mary of the Perry County Museum includes excerpts Public Spirituality; Cultural Grace Lutheran Church, Museum Perry County Courthouse 

Barrens. Many sites 

from a Guttenberg Bible. 

Diversity: Roman St. Joachim Catholic 

features a Civil War statue 

on grounds: Church 

Seminary founded by 

Catholic missionaries Church 

of a Union soldier honor- 

of the Assumption, 

Venetian missionaries in 

ing the 1800 veterans of 

Rare Book Museum, 

1818. Oldest institution of 

the county, donated by 

Rosati’s Cabin, and 

higher learning west of the 

sons of the veterans. Most 

Seminary 

Mississippi River. 

Southern towns pay homage 

only to Confederate 

veterans. 

Rolla Cemetery Phelps County, Buried here are towns- Public Vernacular creativity; Cowan cemetery, Folk art None Many area gypsies have 

Rolla 

people and Civil War vet- 

Cultural Diversity: the cemetery 

been buried here. Broaderans. 

Large headstone 

Gypsy community 

way’s grave is adorned 

marked “Broadway” is the 

with carved wooden birds, 

grave of a Gypsy who 

flowers, and other vernac- 

died in Rolla alongside Rt. 

66 here in 1964. Since 

death of “Broadway,” 

many area gypsies (see 

“Com-ments”). 

ular art. 

Conical and Phelps County, Two of the most spectacu- Private Brimstone Museum, Iron Sinkholes and caves Slaughter Sink is about 

Slaughter Sinks near Rolla lar sinkholes in Missouri. 

Furnaces 

are prominent in 0.25 mile long and 175 ft. 

Conical; separated from 

Missouri, more so deep. Any development 

road by a chain link fence, 

than in any other might disrupt the solitude 

is approx. 100 ft deep and 

state. The state’s of the site. 

300 ft in diameter. 

distinctive geology 

Slaughter, adjacent to 

has prodigiously 

Conical, 150 yards north 

contributed to its 

of the road (see 


history and culture. 

Burnt Mill St. Genevieve Ruins of Stone Mill, built Private Civil War Island No. 10, Cowan None Part of the site’s distinction 

County 

c. 1800, by Francois Valle 

II. Mill burned in 1864 

during the Civil War. Remaining 

walls are 65 ft 

high. 

cemetery 

is its isolation. 

Experimental Phelps County, in 19 acres; begun in 1914 Public People versus Nature; Old Mines, Shot Tower Guided tours University of Missouri - 

Mines, University Rolla 

on 7 acres. Two under- 

Building the American Site 

available Rolla was created in 1871 

of Missouri, Rolla 

round mines and two 

Economy 

as the University of 

Campus 

small quarries are main- 

Missouri School of Mines 

tained for instruction and 

and Metallurgy. Testimony 

research. 

to the importance of the 

mining industry in the 

state’s history. 

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Dillard Mill Crawford County, Mill at the confluence of Public People versus Nature; Burnt Mill, Steen’s Syrup Picnic areas, trails, None 

near Dillard Huzzah and Indian 

Building the American Mill, Topaz Mill tours. 

Creeks, where a rock dam 

Economy; Vernacular 

creates a waterfall that 

falls into a millpond. Built 

c. 1900, restored to working 

order. This red frame 

gristmill (situated on 132 

acres) ground corn until 

1960. Original machinery. 

Architecture 

Route 66 sites in Franklin County Two Rt. 66 sites The Private Recreation Rolla cemetery These are sites The Shamrock is important 

Sullivan, MO 

Shamrock Motel, con- 

along a thorough- as a cultural site along this 

structed of hand-cut stone, 

fare that has as- historic road. 

and a McDonald’s restausumed 

mythic 

rant remodeled as a 

memorial to Rt. 66 

proportions. 

Emerson 

Iron County, Park. First landscaped for Private Spirituality; Civil Iron County Courthouse, Statue bears a Statue was erected by 

Park/Grant’s Statue Irontown the 1867 Lindsay- 

War; Expressing Rolla Cemetery descriptive marker. veterans of the 21st Illinois 

Emerson House, now part 


to commemorate the spot 

of St. Marie du Lac 

where Grant received his 

Catholic Church. An 1886 

commission as general. 

bronze statue of a Union 

After his promotion, Grant 

soldier was erected here 

was put in charge of the 

(see “Comments”). 

District of Southeast 

Missouri (which included 

Southern Illinois). 

Greenville, MO Wayne County Town has population of Public People versus Nature Brimstone Museum; mass Map is available at During Civil War, Green- 

437, but adjacent to town 

grave for hurricane Corps of Engineers ville was fought over and 

are remnants of “Old 

victims 

office in nearby almost half of the town 

Greenville.” 

Wappapello, MO. structures were destroyed. 

Ruins of town In 1938 the U.S. Army 

coupled with map Corps of Engineers 

evoke a sense of the relocated the town while 

loss experienced by building dam to form 

citizens. Visitor 

senses historical 

tension between 

locals (heritage, 

pride) and government. 

Wappapello Lake. 

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Iron Furnaces Phelps County, Site of Ozark Ironworks, Public People versus Nature; Brimstone Museum, Shot Interpretive plaque During the 1930s the 

near Newburg established 1873. An 1833 

Building the American Tower site 

Alhambra Grotto of St. 

financial panic brought 

Economy 

Louis, a degree of the 

ironworks to ruin. Two 

Masonic Lodge, remodeled 

large furnaces remain, 

the administration building 

along with the ruins of the 

as resort for its members. 

ironworks’ brick administration 

building. 

Burned in 1970. 

Old Mountain Wright County, Remnants of town well Public Working People; Greenville, MO Chamber of Town square dedicated in 

Grove 

town of Mountain mark the site of Old 


Commerce. 1915 by Vice President T. 

Grove. 

Mountain Grove. As 

R. Marshall, rededicated 

railroads came through the 

1987 by V.P. George Bush. 

area, various closely 

Town’s demise is evidence 

spaced communities 

of fierce competition in 

sprang up on the Wright- 

area near to railroad. 

Texas County borders in 

Towns of Mountain Grove 

anticipation of commerce. 

and Eyan were established 

on neutral ground. 

Boomland Mississippi County, Fireworks emporium cum Private Recreation; Music Municipal Auditorium in Highly developed Elvis merchandise sold. 

Charleston department store, displays 

Shreveport, Frankie for visitor use. 

a 1974 and 1975 Lincoln 

Continental Mark IV, one 

of which belonged to 

Elvis Presley, the other to 

his girlfriend Linda 

Thompson. Also a creamcolored 

1976 Cadillac 

Elvis bought for a Denver 

policeman. 

Jean’s Pik Quick 

Vera Cruz, MO Douglas County Cemetery and original Private Building the American Old Mountain Grove, None Vera Cruz was the county 

town remnants (a rock 

Economy 

MO; Greenville, MO 

seat 1857-1869. Boundary 

building and the dam of a 

changes of Douglas 

former mill) 

County led to bitter 

rivalries for county seat 

that continued into 20th 

century. Many courthouses 

were burned and court 

records stolen. 

Abandoned Pemiscot County, Abandoned dwelling 20 Public Working People; New Madrid Historical None; surrounding House is indicative of 

Sharecropper’s Wardell 

feet from road 

Building the American Museum 

land still farmed by sharecropping system and 

Cabin 

Economy; Vernacular 

present owner. the living conditions 

Architecture 

fostered by such a system. 

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Dunklin County Dunklin County, Contains the Birthright Public Race relations; New Madrid Historical Museum Contains a record-size 

Museum 

Kennet 

letters, a collection of 

correspondence between 

former slaves and their 

owners, as well as artifacts 

detailing the county’s 

history and culture. 

Slavery 

Museum 

alligator gar. 

Hornersville Swamp Dunklin County, This 3,166-acre preserve Public People versus Nature; Shot Tower Site, Old Missouri Little River Drainage Dis- 

Conservation Area near Hornersville with a variety of local 

Manipulating the Mines, MO 

Department of trict, created in 1905, is the 

fauna provides an example 

Environment; Building 

Conservation largest privately funded 

of how the Missouri Boot- 

the American 

maintains area. drainage system in the 

hill appeared before the 

Economy 

Hunting, fishing, world. Its creation con- 

creation of the Little River 

hiking, camping, verted the boothill from 

Drainage District. . 

nature study, etc., 

available. 

swamp to farmland. 

Skyline Automobile Carter County, Route gives broad, scenic Public Recreation New Madrid Historical None Good example of rugged 

Loop 

Near Van Buren views of hardwood-pine 

ridges, hollows, the town 

of Van Buren, granitetopped 

Stegall Mountain, 

and a 1,000-foot ridge. 

Museum 

terrain of Eastern Ozarks. 

Indian Trail State Dent County, near Facility is basically un- Public Native American Cowan Cemetery Available for Signs for a section of the 

Fish Hatchery Salem 

changed since CCC built 

issues; Agriculture 

visitors. 

Trail of Tears, which 

it in 1938. Water is 

passed through the present 

supplied by gravityassisted 

pipes from 

Blackwell Lake. No water 

activities on lake. 

park. 

Harlin House Howell County, Museum is housed in an Private Recreation; Music; Meadows Art Museum; Museum Contains artifacts and 

Museum 

West Plains 1889 vernacular architec- 

Sports 

Moses Austin’s grave 

memorabilia of former 

ture building; contains an 

residents, such as baseball 

art gallery, as well as a 

players Preacher Roe and 

museum detailing history 

Bill Virdon, and entertain- 

and culture of the area. 

ers Porter Waggoner and 

Jan Howard. 

Mine La Motte Madison County By 1725, Phillip Renault Private Working People; Old Mines, MO; Shot Interpretive marker None 

was producing 1,500 

People versus Nature; Tower Site 

pounds of lead here per 


day in one of Missouri’s 

first mines. Evidence of 

mining activity can be 

seen along SR OO, which 

runs through town. 

Economy 

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Wilderness, MO Oregon County Small town composed of a Private Diversity of populace Rolla Cemetery None Land originally bought for 

former WPA Folk school 

(Irish laborers) 

Irish railroad workers and 

(now a church), one gro- 

immigrants affected by the 

cery store, and a former 

Panic of 1857; 40 families 

gas station. Land original- 

settled in area by 1859, but 

ly bought by a Catholic 

forced to flee by marauders 

Church in Old Mines, 

during Civil War. Town 

MO, (continued in 

exists today due to the 

“comments”) 

lumber industry. 

Rockbridge, MO Ozark County Former county seat of Private Building the American Dillard Mill Visitors are wel- None 

Ozark County. Still 

Economy 

come to tour 

standing: a 3-story frame 

buildings, but 

mill, a restored 1903 bank, 

owner’s primary 

and an 1894 general store. 

concern is running 

Site is part of a fish and 

a fishing and game 

game complex. 

preserve. 

Centerville Reynolds County One of Missouri’s oldest Public Vernacular 

Rolla Cemetery Courthouse is still Original courthouse des- 

Courthouse Centerville courthouses still in use. 

architecture 

in use, but grounds troyed in Civil War. Sever- 

Built 1874. Vernacular 

are open to public. al polished granite markers 

classical revival architec- 

honor the citizens of Reyture; 

made of handmade 

nolds Co. who have served 

bricks. Set in a parklike 

in wars since WW I. Also, 

enclosure and fenced by a 

the old jail is adjacent to 

stone wall. 

courthouse and is currently 

used for record storage. 

Current River Ripley County, This 7,000-sq. ft. museum, Public Meadows art Museum, Museum One of few museums in 

Heritage Museum Doniphan established 1922, contains 

Museum/Moses Austin’s 

area still in operation after 

extensive county historical 

records, as well as historical 

artifacts and area arts 

and crafts. 

grave 

70 years 

Stoddard County Stoddard County An old red brick church Public Civil War Rolla Cemetery, Burnt Museum Plaque at courthouse. The 

Museum 

Bloomfield houses historical items: 

Mill 

Stars and Stripes is the 

tools, furniture, and one of 

official newspaper of the 

only three existing copies 

Overseas Dept. of Defense. 

of the first edition of The 

First printed in Bloomfield 

Stars and Stripes. 

on Nov 9, 1861, by four 

Federal soldiers. 

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Bonne Terre St. Francois Italian Renaissance archi- Public Recreation Shot Tower Site, Creswell Visitors welcome; Bonne Terre was once a 

Memorial Library County, Bonne tecture, built c. 1905. Ex- 

Furnace 

information detail- successful lead-mining 

Terre 

quisite detailing. Built 

ing library’s history town. St. Joseph Lead Co. 

from dressed limestone by 

available inside. became the largest mining 

St. Joseph Lead Co. 

Includes a marble company in southeast 

president Dwight Jones. 

fireplace, an oak 

interior and an 18th 

century grandfather 

clock. 

Missouri by 1900. 

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Tennessee River Benton County Only facility of its kind in Private Developing the Tennessee River Folk Visitor center and 

Fresh Water Pearl 

the U.S.; very important to aquaculture pearl American Economy; Life Museum 

museum 

Farm Tour & 

world pearl production. farm. 

resource extraction 

Museum 

Growing river industry. 

Tennessee River 

Folklife Museum 

Cary’s Sorghum 

Mill 

Patsy Cline 

Memorial 

Johnsonville 

Reenactment 

T. J. Whitfield’s 

Braille Boat 

Benton County, 

Nathan Bedford 

Forrest State Park 

Camden; Benton 

County 

Camden; Benton 

County 







Center has collection of 

documents relating the 

experience of river people 

after the development of 

the Tennessee Valley 

Authority. Documents 

deal with peoples’ recovery 

and adaptation to a 

new life. 

Sorghum production 

facility. Works on same 

principle as mule and 

horse powered equipment. 

Sorghum products available 

for purchase. 

Benton County is the site 

of the plane crash that 

claimed the lives of Patsy 

Cline and members of her 

band. 

Civil War reenactment 

commemorating Forrest’s 

loss at Pilot’s Knob, a 

river fortification. 

Whitfield was a local river 

fisherman. The Braille 

boat was equipped with 

hooks used to harvest 

mussels. 

State Transforming the 

Environment; TVA 

projects 

Private Agriculture; Expressing 


through foods. 

City Expressing Cultural 

Values; Music 

State Civil War; Expressing 


State River life; 

Transportation 

273 

Tennessee River Fresh 

Water Pearl 

Farm/Museum 

NA None. People stop 

from time to time 

and talk with 

owners. 

NA Chamber of 

Commerce, Benton 

County 

National Battlefield State 


Nathan Bedford Forrest 


COMMENTS 

Admission charged; Pearl 

Farm open April through 

November. Must call for 

reservation to take tour. 

Pearl Museum open yearround. 

Visitor center No admission charge. 

Open daily from August to 

November; center also has 

library with video and 

audio collection. 

Mill harvests sorghum and 

produces syrup September 

through mid-October. 

Interested persons need to 

call the mill to place order 

or to find out when the 

sorghum is being milled. 

Supply of sorghum 

depends on weather. 

Visitors need to call 

Benton County Chamber of 

Commerce to confirm date 

of event. 

Visitor Center Event is held in October. 

Visitor Center Center contains many 

audio and video recordings 

depicting the life of the 

people who made their 

homes and livings on the 

river.

TENNESSEE 



Maggie Lee Sayre Benton Co. Maggie Lee Sayre grew Tennessee River Tennessee River; Nathan Bedford Forrest Visitor Center Maggie Lee Sayre is deaf 

Photograph 

up on a shanty boat in the Folklife Museum Expressing Cultural State Park 

and unable to speak, a 

Collection at the 

river. She recorded her life 

Values; People of the 

great resource for folklife 

Tennessee River 

through a black and white 

Delta 

interpretation. 

Folklife Museum 

camera. The images are a 

great record of river life. 

Thornton’s Trading Benton County Trading post similar to a Private Cultural Diversity; Other Benton County Retail facility Area at one time had an 

Post 

turn-of-the century mer- 

Transportation sites 

Amish community, but it 

cantile. Specializes in 

no longer exists. Thornton 

horseware and has Amish 

has a manufacturing 

and antique carriages on 

facility to produce his own 

display. 

tack. 

Oak Hill Cemetery Huntingdon; Burial site of Gov. Gordon City State Politics; Public Gordon Weaver Museum, or may None 

Carroll County Browning 

Education 

Browning Museum, use Carroll County 

McKenzie 

Chamber of Commerce 

Gordon Weaver McKenzie; Carroll Museum contains Brown- Private State Politics; Public Oak Hill Cemetery Museum Brownig’s major political 

Browning Museum/ County 

ing memorabilia and 


contribution was to the 

Carroll County 

genealogical resources. 


public education system of 

Historical Society 

Tennessee; Served in both 

world wars; Gubernatorial 

terms were in the 30s and 

50s . 

“The world’s largest Parsons; Decatur An annual event held to Private Expressing Cultural NA May use Decatur This is a large event for the 

coon hunt” County 

raise money for St. Jude’s 

Values; Recreation 

County Chamber of town of Parsons that has 

hospital. Participants tree 

Commerce helped raise $1 million for 

the coons but do not kill 

St. Jude’s. The organiza- 

them. The hunt is based 

tion is rebuilding facilities 

on a point system. 

destroyed in a 1995 fire. 

B & F Fish Market Parsons; Decatur Local market where river Private Developing the NA Employees take Parsons is a town of 2,000 

County 

fishermen come to sell 

American Economy, 

time to talk with situated on the Tennessee 

their catfish. Market is a 

Resource Extraction; 

tourists; the site is River. Fishing is a signifi- 

point of processing, 


accustomed to havcant industry. Local river 

shipping, and retailing. 

Values; Fishing as an 

ing visitors. catfish business threatened 

Industry 

by catfish farming. 

Ferry Boat Parsons; Decatur Ferry boat has up to six- Private Transportation; Man “World’s Largest Coon May use Decatur Group is currently rebuild- 

County 

car capacity and presents a 

vs. Nature 

Hunt” 

County Chamber of ing facilities. 

chance to experience an 

antiquated form of transportation. 

Commerce 

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Dr. Walter E. David Dyer County Collection of every State Mississippi river & its Dyersburg Army Air Base Dyer County Museum is open daily; full 

Wildlife Museum Dyersburg State specimen of duck found in 

drainage systems; 

Chamber of accessibility for persons 

Community Mississippi flyway 

Human interaction 

Commerce with disabilities; no admis- 

College, Glover 

Building 

with environment 

sion charge. 

K & N Rootbeer Dyersburg, Dyer Restaurant with 50s/60s Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Has a 30-year plus history. 

County 

look; establishment is a 

local hangout. Owner 

makes his own root beer 

and offers barbecue, corn 

dogs, and other short order 

items. Still has carhops. 

Values; food 

T. G. Shepherd Humboldt, Gibson Shepherd is a country Private Expressing Cultural NA Humboldt museum. None 

Boyhood Home County 

music celebrity. 

Values; music 

Visitors may see 

town that shaped 

Shepherd’s early 

life. 

Strawberry Festival Humboldt, Gibson Collection of local mem- City Southern Town NA Self-guided None 

- Historical museum County 

orabilia, exhibits on town 

Development; 

development, evolution of 


telephone, collection/ 

Values; festivals; 

exhibit relating to WW II 

Brig. Gen. Claude Adams. 

military; agriculture 

University of Milan, Gibson Museum interprets the State Developing the Carroll County Browning Site offers guided Facilities include a frontier, 

Tennessee – West County 

agriculture community 

American Economy; Museum and Oak Hill tours. 

agricultural community 

Tennessee Agri- 

from 1850-1950. 

agriculture 

Cemetery 

(church, schoolhouse, 

culture Museum 

blacksmith, private homes, 

etc.) horsedrawn agricultural 

equipment and birthlace 

of Governor 

Browning. 

Davy Crockett Rutherford, Gibson Reproduction of cabin Private Peopling Places; Folk Burial site of John Cabin is museum Cabin is a reproduction, 

Cabin 

County 

incorporating some of the 

Heroes 

Wesley Crockett, son of 

including timbers from 

original timbers 

Davy 

Crockett’s last Tennessee 

home. His mother is buried 

on the grounds. 

City of Rutherford Gibson County City hosts Davy Crockett City Expressing Cultural Davy Crockett Cabin Gibson County Festival began in 1968 as a 

Days annually on the first 

Values;- music; 

Chamber of Rutherford Centennial 

of October. 

festivals; storytelling; 

Commerce celebration. The event 

frontier settlement 

includes pioneer trade craft 

demonstrations, old-time 

string band music, and tall 

tale contests. 

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Ames Plantation Grand Junction, Plantation hosts the Private Recreation; National Bird Dog Hall of Plantation is open None 

Hardeman County National Field Dog Trial 

Expressing Cultural Fame 

for tours on the 4th 

Championships for bird 

Values 

Thursday from 

dogs. 

March through 

October, other 

times by appointment. 

National Bird Dog Grand Junction, Museum exhibits bird dog Private Expressing Cultural Ames Plantation Tour of exhibits None 

Museum & Field Hardeman County art, wildlife murals, game 

Values; recreation 

Trial Hall of Fame 

bird & wildlife specimens. 

The Little Bolivar, Hardeman Log courthouse built in Association for The Pillars NA Chamber of Com- Open by appointment; can 

Courthouse County 

1824 served as first the Preservation 

merce of Hardeman call Hardeman County 

courthouse of Hardeman of Tennessee 

County 

Chamber of Commerce. 

County. In 1827 it became Antiquities 

a private home and was 

remodeled. One of the few 

surviving examples of log 

courthouse structures. 

The Pillars Bolivar, Hardeman Construction dates to Association for Peopling Places; The Little Register Chamber of Visitation is by appoint- 

County 

1826. Maj. John Houston the Preservation effects of exploration 

Commerce ment; must contact Harde- 

Bills purchased it in 1831. of Tennessee and settlement; 

man County Chamber of 

One of the original settlers Antiquities Architecture 

Commerce. House is also 

of west Tennessee, Bills 

associated with Sam 

was a member of a group 

Houston, President James 

that surveyed and estab- 

K. Polk, and other promilished 

the territory. The 

nent 19th century 

Borders house is being 

restored. 

politicians 

Tennessee River Harden County Museum’s collection cen- Federal Transforming the NA Self-guided tour. Pickwick Dam is part of 

Waterway Museum 

ters on Tennessee River 

Environment; TVA 

TVA. These projects had 

being used for power 

projects 

major effects on the land 

generation. 

use and people of this area. 

Museum and tours are free. 

Nutbush/Tina Brownsville, Center has a collection of Private Expressing Cultural Nutbush Tina Turner Resource center To schedule a visit to 

Turner Heritage Haywood County video and audio record- 

Values; music Tour 

serves as visitor center or find out date of 

Resource Center 

ings of Ike and Tina 

center. 

festival, can call 901-772- 

Turner; also has a collection 

of musical recordings 

of early blues, country, 

and gospel artists from the 

area. 

4265 or 901-772-8157. 

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Tina Turner Nutbush, Haywood Various sites associated Private Expressing Cultural Tina Turner Resource Resource Center A building is being 

childhood home County 

with the childhood of Tina 

Values; music Center 

refurbished to display an 

tour 

Turner, music celebrity 

exhibit on Tina Turner. 

Although house is no 

longer standing, one may 

gain a sense of Tina 

Turner’s childhood 

experiences and influences. 

Lincoln Museum/ Brownsville, County museum covering City Expressing Cultural NA Museum Collection contains photos 

Haywood County Haywood County the history of the area and 

Values; Civil War 

of community, war 

Museum 

the people; also has col- 

memorabilia, agricultural 

lection of Abraham 

Lincoln memorabilia. 

tools, etc. 

Battle of Parker’s Parker’s 

Self-guided tour of battle NA Civil War NA Cotton Patch None 

Crossroads Crossroads, area. Tour consists of 

Restaurant serves as 

Henderson County seven markers with text 

information center 

describing battle. 

& museum. 

Paris, TN Henry County on Town hosts the “World’s City Expressing Cultural Kentucky Lake, Old City Chamber of In last week of April, town 

Tennessee River Largest Fish Fry” 

Values; food (catfish) Cemetery 

Commerce hosts event including 

parade, catfish races, 

rodeo, etc. 

Old City Cemetery Paris, Henry Cemetery is burial site of City Civil War NA Paris/ Henry None 

County 

John Dewitt Clinton 

County Chamber of 

Atkins. Atkins was Tennessee’s 

delegate to the 

Confederate Provisional 

Congress and also its 

representative in the 

Confederate Congress. 

Commerce 

Old City Cemetery Paris, Henry Burial site of John Wesley City Folk legends of the Davy Crockett Cabin in Paris/Henry County None 

County 

Crockett, son of David 

South 

Rutherford 

Chamber of 

“Davy” Crockett 

Commerce 

Reelfoot Lake State Tiptonville, Lake Museum exhibits aspects State Transforming the Calhoun Boatworks Interpretive Center Interpretive focus is on 

Park Museum County 

of natural and cultural 

Environment; natural 

natural and cultural 

change in area. 

activity; human 

changes of lake and people. 

interaction 

Natural focus:-1811-12 

new Madrid earthquake, 

siltation problems. Cultural 

focus: commercialization 

of hunting and fishing 

Reelfoot Lake State Tiptonville, Lake Lake, created by the 1811- State Transforming the NA Visitor center at Reelfoot lake is the winter 


County 

12 earthquake, is Tennes- 

Environment; New 

museum 

home for ducks and geese. 

see’s only natural lake. 

Madrid earthquake of 

Park also boasts an Ameri- 

1811-12; Recreation 

can eagle population. 

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Calhoun Boatworks Tiptonville, Lake Builds Reelfoot Stump Private Transportation Reelfoot Lake State Park Boat works Calhoun’s work has been 

County, across Jumper; a type of boat 

welcomes visitors, exhibited at Smithsonian 

from Reelfoot lake used on Reelfoot lake 

who can also use Institution and at the 1982 


visitor center at world’s fair in Knoxville, 

Park. 

Tennessee 

Saltillo Historic Saltillo, Hardin One of a few remaining NA Transforming the NA Harden County Fee is charged for ferry 

District and Ferry County 

river ferries, Saltillo is an 

environment; 

Chamber of transportation. 

early river town dating to 

Transportation; 

Commerce 

circa 1840. Town has 

examples of farmhouses, 

Greek revival and Italianate 

architecture. 

Architecture 

Tennessee River Savannah, Harden City museum housing City The River; Man NA Collection has re- NA 

Museum 

County 

collections of local history 

against Nature, 

sources on Indian 


culture, early river 


society, freshwater 

Transportation; 

mussel harvesting, 


Values; music 

Civil War. 

Cherry Mansion Savannah, Hardin 1830s house built on Private Architecture, Southern City Cemetery; Alex Grounds are open to House, its inhabitants, and 

County 

former Indian mound. 

Literary Figures and Haley house in Henning, public; building is surroundings inspired 

Queenie Haley, grand- 

Influences 

TN 

not open for tours. American writer Alex 

mother of Alex Haley, 

worked here near turn of 

the century. 

Haley. 

Catfish Capital of Savannah, Hardin River Town that is rich City Expressing Cultural Tennessee River Museum city visitors center City hosts large tourna- 

the World County, on the with fishing opportunities. 

Values; food, music, 

ment, catfish & hush puppy 

Tennessee River The town’s big draw is 

festivals, and 

cookoff, Miss Catfish 

catfish. 

pageants. 

pageant, and gospel sing. 

City Cemetery Savannah, Hardin Cemetery for the town of City Expressing Cultural Cherry Mansion, Alex City Visitor Center City Cemetery is burial site 

County 

Savannah. Burial site of 

Values -literature and Haley House 

of Hank Deberry, Brooklyn 

Alex Haley, Sr., and 

storytelling 

Dodgers catcher, and 

Queenie Haley, grand- 

Elizabeth Patterson, babyparents 

of author Alex 

sitter on the “I Love Lucy” 

Haley. 

show. These people grew 

up in Hardin County. Unfortunately, 

their childhood 

houses are not standing. 

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DELTA 

Red Sulphur Bed & Hardin County House dates to 1843, Private Civil War; Vernacular 

Breakfast 

originally the Red Sulphur 

Architecture; folk 

Springs Hotel. 

figures 

Harbor-Pitts 

Company 

Henning - Jim 

Hickman’s 

Hometown 

Alex Haley House 

Museum 

Savannah, Hardin 

County 

Henning, 

Lauderdale County 

Henning, 


1910 general store built on 

the banks of the 

Tennessee River is still in 

operation. 

Hometown of baseball 

player Jim Hickman 

House where Haley lived 

until his preteen years and 

then spent summers. It 

was here that he heard oral 

histories of ancestors and 

African roots, which 

inspired his novel 

“Roots.” 

Ripley, Tennessee Lauderdale County Site of the Lauderdale 

County annual Tomato 

Festival 

Lauderdale Cellars Ripley, Lauderdale 

County 

John Lee “Sonny 

Boy” Williamson 

gravesite 

Jackson, Madison 

County 

Winery specializing in 

tomato wine 

Cemetery for the Old 

Blairs Chapel church; 

John Lee “Sonny Boy” 

Williamson is buried here. 


Values; Literature and 

Storytelling; 

Recreation 

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Hardin County sites Bed/breakfast. Can 

call County 

Chamber of 

Commerce for 

phone number. 

Hardin County sites Store serves as 

center 

City Recreation, baseball Lauderdale County sites Lauderdale County 

Chamber of 

Commerce 


Values; Literature and 

Storytelling 


Values; agriculture 


Values; agriculture 


Values; religion, 

music 

Cherry Mansion, City 

Cemetery of Savannah, 

Lauderdale Cellars, other 

Lauderdale County sites 

Museum None 


Chamber of 

Commerce 

COMMENTS 

Served as an early health 

spa because of the abundance 

of sulphur springs. 

Hideout spot for Frank & 

Jesse James in 1870s. Was 

used as a hospital in the 

Civil War and as lodging 

facilities during the Battle 

of Shiloh. 

Owners host storytelling 

nights. Can call to inquire 

if any events are 

scheduled. 

Can see town in which 

Hickman grew up, sites 

associated with his childhood. 

Festival highlights Ripley’s 

agricultural community. 

Tomatoes, one of the area’s 

more important crops, are 

known for their quality. 

NA Gift Shop Lauderdale Cellars produces 

a unique product in 

its tomato wine. It also 

offers wines made from 

watermelon, pear, apple 

and blueberry. 

Tied to Shannon Street in 

Jackson 

Madison County 

Chamber of 

Commerce 

None

TENNESSEE 



Rock Temple Jackson, Madison Brick church building Private Expressing Cultural John Lee “Sonny Boy” Madison County 

Church of God in County 

where blues singer Mabel 

Values 

Williamson’s gravesite Chamber of 

Christ 

“Big Maybelle” Smith 

attended as a child. 

Commerce 

Shannon Street, 

Jackson 

Shannon Street 

Music Festival 

Buford Pusser 

Home & Museum 

Flippens Fruit Farm 

& Hillbilly Barn 

Dixie Gun Works / 

Old Car Museum 


County 


County 

Adamsville, 

McNairy County 

Troy, Obion 

County 

Union City, Obion 

County 

Davies Manor Brunswick, Shelby 

County 

Heritage Railroad & 

Memphis Transportation 

Museum train 

display 

Burkle Estate / 

Slavehaven 

Colliersville, 

Shelby County 

Memphis, Shelby 

County 

Shannon Street is an 

integral part of John Lee 

“Sonny Boy” Williamson’s 

music. 

Festival celebrates 

Jackson’s blues heritage. 

Home of Pusser preserved 

to period just before his 

death 

Family-owned fruit farm 

(apples and peaches) 

produces the “World’s 

Best Fruit Pies.” 

Museum’s collection includes 

antique guns, cars, 

electrical equipment, and 

a log cabin ca. 1850s. 

Two-story log house built 

before 1807 by Indian 

chief. Purchased in 1838 

by Davies family and 

became large plantation. 

Museum exhibits historic 

train cars from the 1910s 

to the 1940s. 

1849 house used as a stop 

on Underground Railroad. 

House was built by 

German immigrants. 


Values; music 

City Festivals and blues 

music 

City Interpretation of 

Tennessee law 

enforcement officer 

Private Peopling Places; 

Agriculture; 

Adaptability/Versatilit 

y; Expressing Cultural 

Values; food 

Private Developing the 

Ameri-can Economy; 

technol-ogy; 

weaponry; automobile; 

electricity; 

Architecture 

Davies Manor 

Association 



Values; Vernacular 

Architecture 

City Transportation: 

railroad 

Private Peopling Places; Civil 

War; Slavery 

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Sites tied to “Sonny Boy” 

Williamson and Mabel 

Smith 

Sites tied to “Sonny Boy” 

Williamson and Mabel 

Smith 


Chamber of 

Commerce 


Chamber of 

Commerce 

COMMENTS 

Building is basically the 

same structure as when 

Smith used it. Some of the 

area has been cleared for 

development. 

Undergoing revitalization. 

None 

NA Museum Interprets family and home 

of County Sheriff Buford 

Pusser, who led fight to rid 

county of prostitution, illegal 

gambling, and moonshine. 

Movie Walking Tall 

was about Pusser. 

Reelfoot Lake Site has fruit 

market, restaurant. 

Business is family 

owned and 

operated. 

Flippens established this 

business in the 1950s. 

Adapted from cotton to 

fruit. 

NA Museum Collection begun by owner 

of Dixie Gun Works. 

NA NA Working on documenting 

the history of the house. 

House is being reinterpreted 

to the 1850 period 

NA Must call for an 

appointment to see 

museum. 

NA Tour by 

appointment 

None 

Must call for reservation to 

see house


TENNESSEE 



Center for Southern Memphis, Shelby Organization documenting Private, nonprofit People of the Delta NA Gift shop Interprets various aspects 

Folklore 

County 

the people and traditions 

and people of the Delta and 

of the South 

Memphis areas; conducts 

tours of Beale Street. 

Charlie Vergo’s Memphis, Shelby Restaurant specializing in Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Restaurant is well known 

Rendezvous County 

charbroiled ribs begun in 

Values; food 

in and out of Memphis 

1948 by Greek immigrant; 

blends Greek and Southern 

cuisines. 

area. 

Coletta’s Memphis, Shelby Italian restaurant estab- Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant None 

County 

lished in 1923 serves 

barbecued pizza. 

Values; food 

Cotton Row Memphis, Shelby Tour consists of 10 sites Public/Private Agriculture: cotton’s NA Memphis Visitors Cotton Row has been the 

Walking Tour County 

located between Wagner 

impact on the 20th 

Bureau 

cotton commercial trade 

Place and Monroe Street, 

century 

center for the central 

downtown Memphis. 

Mississippi Valley. Most 

buildings date to the late 

19th or early 20th cenuries. 

Crying Angel Memphis, Shelby Cemetery used by older Private Cemetery architecture NA Memphis Visitors’ Located in a lonely spot 

Cemetery County 

families of the area. One 

Bureau 

from Millington. Night 

grave is marked by an 

visitors have claimed to 

elaborately carved life- 

have seen the angel’s 

sized figure of an angel 

wings move in the breeze 

with swept-back wings 

and tears roll down its 

and its head bowed in 

prayer. 

cheeks. 

Daisy Theater Memphis, Shelby Building constructed c. Private Early 20th century Beale Street sites Visitor center None 

County 

1917 by Sam Zerilla, who 

development of black- 

located at 340 

built the first movie house 

owned enterprises; 

Beale Street; blues 

for blacks. It now houses a 

blues museum. 

blues music 

museum tour 

Ducks Unlimited Memphis, Shelby Headquarters of Ducks Private The River; 

NA Can tour facilities, None 

County 

Unlimited, a wetland 

Conservation of 

view exhibits of 

conservation organization 

Habitat and Wildlife 

memorabilia and 

wetlands, 

ecosystem. 

Elmwood Cemetery Memphis, Shelby Cemetery founded in Private Cultural Diversity; Other sites in Memphis Visitor center offers Cemetery has examples of 

County 

1852, a nonprofit venture. 

Civil War; Southern 

guided or self- Victorian period statuary 

Final resting place of 18 

sense of tragedy; 

guided tours. and some ironwork. Future 

Confederate generals, 

cemetery architecture 

plans are to turn current 

political figures, and 

office building into a 

notable citizens of 

genealogical research 

Memphis. Still in use. 

facility 

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Elvis Presley Memphis, Shelby Tour of Memphis sites Public/Private Cultural Icon - Elvis Ohter Memphis sites Visitor information None 

driving tour County 

related to Presley’s teen 

years and early recording 

career 

Presley 

center 

The Firm Walking Memphis, Shelby Sites were used in the film Public/Private Expressing Cultural NA Visitor information Tour consists of noted 

Tour 

County. Sites are adaptation of John 

Values; Literature, 

center 

Memphis architectural sites 

located in downtown 

Memphis 

between Beale and 

Adams Streets. 

Grisham’s book The Firm. 

Southern writer 

and restaurants. 

First Baptist Beale Memphis, Shelby First Memphis church Private Nonresidential Archi- NA Visitor information None 

Street Church County 

constructed for blacks 

tecture; Spirituality; 

center 

between 1867-1881 

Reconstruction period; 

African-Americans 

Four Way Grill Memphis, Shelby Restaurant specializing in Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant None 

County 

soul food open daily from 

7 a.m. to 11 p.m. 

Values; food 

Frisco Bridge Memphis, Shelby Cantilever bridge built in NA Transportation; Build- NA Visitor information Bridge is considered to be 

County 

1892 to bring seven rail 

ing the American 

center 

a landmark of American 

lines across the Mississip- 

Economy 

engineering; exhibits 

pi River; original built by 

America’s “taming” of the 

three railroad companies. 

river and working to 

expand the economy. 

Ghost Tour of Memphis, Shelby NA Public/Private Southern themes: NA Can pick up guide None 

Memphis County 

tragedy and 

at visitor 

melodrama 

information center 

Gridley’s Memphis, Shelby Specializes in “wet” ribs. Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Restaurant makes its own 

County 

These are sticky, messy 

Values : food 

breads and desserts; rivals 

and glazed with a fruity 

Rendezvous to be the best 

red sauce. Also serves 

barbecued shrimp. 

in Memphis. 

Hunt-Phelan house Memphis, Shelby Antebellum home was a Private Slavery; Civil War; NA Visitor information None 

County 

stop on the Underground 

Reconstruction; 

center 

Railroad. Site contains a 

Freedman’s Bureau 

school. 

Architecture 

Leonard’s Memphis, Shelby Restaurant specializing in Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Site is well-known in area 

County 

barbecue 

Diversity; food 

and is reputed to be quite 

good. 

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Memphis Belle B- Memphis, Shelby WW II bomber. This was City Warfare, Weaponry, NA Visitor information Months of operation are 

17 Bomber County 

the first U.S. bomber to 

Aviation 

center 

March-October. Cannot 

complete 25 missions 

against Nazi Germany 

with no casualties; subject 

of a movie. 

enter interior of plane. 

Mississippi River Memphis, Shelby Museum covers the City People of the Delta; NA Visitor information None 

Museum 

County, Mud Island 10,000-year history of 

Mississippi River. 


center 

Mud Island Memphis, Shelby Large (52-acre) complex City Mississippi River NA Visitor information Open March through 

County 

on Mississippi River, 

containing river walk and 

other exhibits. 

center 

October 

Music Driving Tour Memphis, Shelby Sites important to the Public/Private Expressing Cultural NA Center for Southern None 

of Memphis County 

Memphis music scene are 

Values; music 

Folklore, located on 

scattered between Elvis 

Presley Blvd., Union 

Street, and Beale Street. 

Beale St. 

National Civil Memphis, Shelby Museum in the motel Private Race Relations; NA Museum None 

Rights Museum County 

where Martin Luther 

African American 

King, Jr., was killed has 

Heritage; Slavery; 

exhibits spanning the 

Civil Rights 

American civil rights 

movement. 

Movement 

National 

Shelby County, Museum is one of a kind; Private Building the American NA Museum galleries Changing exhibits that 

Ornamental Metal Memphis, 374 its mission is to preserve 

Economy; technology 

and gift shop. range from jewelry making 

Museum 

Metal Museum the art and craft of metal- 

of metalworking 

to architectural metals. 

Drive 

working. It has a working 

blacksmith’s shop. 

The Peabody Memphis, Shelby One of the finest hotels in Private Architecture; Building NA Hotel and Hotel claims that the Delta 

County 

Memphis; established for 

the American 

restaurants begins in the lobby 

over 100 years. Home of 

the Peabody ducks, which 

are on display in the lobby 

daily. 

Economy 

St. Mary’s Memphis, Shelby Oldest Episcopal cathedral Private Nonresidential NA Visitor information None 

Episcopal Church. County 

in the South, built be- 

architecture: 

center 

tween 1898 and 1926. The 

present structure replaced 

an 1857 Gothic Revival 

wooden building. 

Spirituality 

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Sun Studio Memphis, Shelby Recording studio where Private Expressing Cultural NA Offers tours None 

County 

big-name performers like 

Elvis Presley started their 

musical careers. 

Values; music 

Tri-State Bank Memphis, Shelby This building, constructed Private Expressing Cultural NA Visitor information None 

Building 

County 

in 1907, houses the third 

Values; music; 

center 

black-owned bank in 


Memphis. Pace & Handy 

Ameri-can Economy; 

Music Company, a black- 

devel-opment of 

owned enterprise, occu- 

black-owned 

pied the second floor 

1913-1918. 

businesses. 

Walking tour of Memphis, Shelby Various styles of architec- Private/Public Cultural Diversity in NA Visitor information None 

downtown churches County. Sites are ture are represented. 

the Delta; Religion; 

center 

and public build- located between Buildings are of historical 

Nonresidential 

ings, Memphis Adams and Market and architectural signifi- 

Architecture 

Streets. 

cance. 

Cobb-Parr Park Covington, Tipton City park where the City Expressing Cultural NA Tipton County City of Covington hosts 

County 

Tipton barbecue festival is 

Values: Festivals and 

Chamber of festival, which boasts the 

held. 

food 

Commerce world’s oldest barbecue 

cooking contest. 

Bozo’s Barbecue Mason, Tipton Barbecue restaurant in Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Owners were sued by Bozo 

Restaurant County 

operation since 1923 

Values: food 

the Clown for infringement 

serves chopped or shred- 

over use of name Bozo; 

ded style pork with 

the case made its way to 

vinegar-based sauce. 

the U.S. Supreme Court; 

owners won. 

Fort Wright Tipton and Fort used in Civil War. Public/Private Civil War NA Tipton County None 

Randolph Counties Only remaining powder 

Chamber of 

magazine in Tennessee. 

Breastworks still exist. It 

was a training facility for 

Nathan Bedford Forrest’s 

troops. 

Commerce 

Ruffin Theater Covington, Tipton Built in July 1937, remod- Tipton Fine Arts 20th century; nonresi- NA Arrangements for Southern buildings of this 

County 

eled 1941 in the art deco Council dential architecture 

viewing can be style are rare. 

style. The building retains 

made through the 

the art deco motifs in the 

Tipton County 

marquee, courting seats, 

Chamber of 

and swirl patterns on the 

ceiling, Renovated and 

restored in the 1980s. 

Commerce. 

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South Main Historic Covington, Tipton Street of historic resi- NA Architecture, festivals NA Can purchase Small fee is charged. 

District, Covington County; South dences; four-five homes 

tickets for tour Carriage rides are offered. 

Main & South are open for tour; front 

Maple Streets yards have demonstrations 

of period domestic 

activities 

Tennessee Gins Covington, Tipton Cotton gin and warehouse. Private Developing the NA Visitors can tour Need to call for guided 

County 

Ginning facility was one 

Economy: technology; 

facility. 

tours. 

of the first in the nation to 

become automated. 

Agriculture: cotton 

Home of Mike Gleason, Weakley Town where Grand Ole Private Expressing Cultural Town of Gleason City Hall serves as None 

Snider 

County, 

Opry member Mike 

Snider grew up and 

continues to maintain a 

home. 

Values: country music 

visitor center. 

Gleason, TN Weakley County, Gleason began as a rail- City Developing the NA City Hall serves as None 

extreme NW road town. Some historic 

American Economy: 

visitor center 

Tennessee; borders structures remain along 

transportation; railroad 

Kentucky the railroad. 

company town. 

Boyette’s Tiptonville, Lake Family-owned restaurant Private Expressing Cultural Reelfoot Lake State Park Restaurant None 

Restaurant County 

that was established in 

1921 as a country store. 

Specializes in family style 

meals. 

Values: food 

Cranetown Tiptonville, Lake A swampy area of huge State Expressing Cultural NA Visitor center Area was dynamited for 

County, located cypress trees. Used as 

Values: Southern 

located at museum crews to gain entry. Human 

within Reelfoot setting for Raintree 

themes in film; man’s 

traffic negatively affected 

Lake State Park County movie starring 

Elizabeth Taylor and 

Montgomery Clift. 

impact on nature. 

the wildlife population. 

Kentucky Lake Paris, Henry One of the largest man- Tennessee Valley Mississippi River: NA Henry County Lake located in Paris 

County 

made lakes in the world, Authority TVA projects 

Chamber of (Henry Co.), Tennessee, 

created through Tennessee 

Commerce the oldest incorporated 

valley authority floods of 

town in west Tennessee. 

the 1930s. 

Fishing is a major recreational 

sport in the area. 

Center of Popular Murfreesboro, Center for research/ State Expressing Cultural NA Center maintains Site is out of the study area 

Music, Middle Rutherford County scholarship in American 

Values : music 

large library and but is a wonderful resource 

Tennessee State 

popular music, mid-18th 

archive of print for researching and under- 

University 

century to present. 

materials and sound standing the music of the 

recordings. Delta and America. 

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Fort Pillow State Henning, Fort Pillow was one of State Civil War NA Interpretive center None 


Lauderdale County several river fortifications 

used by the Confederacy 

for defense. The area had 

river batteries and an 

extensive system of 

breastworks. Controlled 

by both Confederate and 

Union forces. 

Doug Atkins Humboldt, Gibson Boyhood town of Atkins, City Recreation: sports NA Humboldt County None 

hometown County 

figure in the National 

Chamber of 

Football League. Sites and 

environment relate to the 

formative years of Atkins 

and his football career. 

Commerce 

R & J’s Restaurant Rutherford, Gibson Specializes in barbecue Private Expressing Cultural NA Restaurant Restaurant has won several 

County 

and ribs. Serves pulled 

barbecue with tomatobased 

sauce, as well as 

catfish. 

Values: food 

awards. 

Jack Boone Henderson, Chester Boyhood home of Jack City Civil War; Expressing Hurst Nation Historic Chester County Boone was a poet and 

County 

Boone, writer of “Dossie 

Cultural Values: Marker 

Chamber of writer of short stories, 

Bell is Dead.” Boone was 

Southern themes, 

Commerce or including the published 

a southern writer and 

literature 

County Library work “Dossie Bell is 

recipient of the O. Henry 

Dead.” The subject of the 

award in the 1930s. 

book is Col. Fielding 

Hurst, who formed the 

Hurst nation. 

Hurst Nation McNairy County, Hurst nation was an area NA Civil War: Cultural Jack Boone’s house in McNairy County Hurst’s wartime home still 

Historic Marker located off hwy. 45 occupied by union sympa- 

Diversity of the Delta Henderson, TN. Library 

stands. It was the only 

between Bethel thizers and named for the 

structure spared by Union 

Springs and Selmer Hurst family. Main area 

and Confederate forces. 

was part of McNairy and 

Hurst was leader of Union 

Chester Counties. 

outfit in TN. He lived in 

the Purdy community. 

Col. Fielding Hurst McNairy County, Gravesite of Col. Hurst, Private Civil War Hurst Nation Historic May use McNairy Cemetery dates to 1823. 

gravesite 

Mt. Gilead union officer in Tennessee 

Marker; Jack Boone’s co. library as center 

cemetery 6th cavalry. 

house 

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Elvis Presley’s Memphis, Shelby House purchased by Elvis Private Cultural icon: Elvis Graceland, Elvis Presley Visitor information None 

Girlfriend’s House County 

for girlfriend in 1975. 

Presley 

driving tour 

center. Can tour 

Decorated by Elvis’s 

Graceland but must 

interior designer. It also 

see this site from 

has original wooden 

guardhouse from Graceland. 

street. 

Magnolia Place Somerville, Fayette Mansion built in 1911. NA Residential 

NA Tours are available None 

County 

architecture 

and can schedule 

luncheons. 

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