Group Tour Escort Manual - Mississippi

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l Greg Harkins, known as “Chairmaker to the Presidents,” has built rocking chairs for four U.S. Presidents.
l Casey Jones, the famous train engineer, lost his life on the
day of the Cannonball Run crash in Vaughan, Mississippi in Yazoo County.
l Beneath the Yazoo River lies 29 sunken ships from the War between
the States.
l Bell Road is part of the original road that stretched from Yazoo City
to Vicksburg, used in the 1820’s.
l Yazoo City Fire Station is the second oldest in the state.
l The Oakes African American Cultural Center is the result
of one man’s efforts to improve education of African-Americans in
Yazoo City.
l The Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital, founded
in 1928, was the state’s first hospital for African Americans.
l The B.S. Ricks Memorial Library is the oldest library in the state.
l Yazoo County is home to blues singers such as Jack Owens, Skip James,
Gatemouth Moore, Henry Stuckey, and Tommy McClellan.
l Yazoo has two MS Blues Trail markers in Bentonia, one at the Blue
Front Café and one on Hwy 49 honoring Skip James.
For more information about Yazoo City, visit www.yazoo.org
Oakes African American Cultural Center