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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQM_jack-owens_Bentonia-MS.html
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Jack Owens became one of Mississippi's most venerated blues artists in the 1980s and ?90s after spending most of his life as a farmer in Yazoo County. Born November 17, 1904, or 1906 according to some sources, Owens did not perform outside…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQL_the-blue-front-cafe_Bentonia-MS.html
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The Blue Front Café opened in 1948 under the ownership of Carey and Mary Holmes, an African American couple from Bentonia. In its heyday the Blue Front was famed for its buffalo fish, blues, and moonshine whiskey. One of the couple’s son…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQJ_nehemiah-skip-james_Bentonia-MS.html
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The haunting quality of Nehemiah "Skip" James music earned him a reputation as one of the great early Mississippi bluesmen. James (1902-1969) grew up at the Woodbine Plantation and as a youth learned to play both guitar and piano…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQH_turners-drug-store_Belzoni-MS.html
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The names of Turner Drug Store (located on this corner) and the Easy Pay Store across the street are etched into blues history as sponsors of some of the first radio programs in Mississippi to feature Delta blues. In 1947-48 stations in Ya…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQG_denise-lasalle_Belzoni-MS.html
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Soul and blues star Denise LaSalle was born Denise Allen near Sidon in rural Leflore County on July 16, 1939, but spent much of her childhood here in Belzoni. After moving to Chicago in her teens, she began writing songs and scored the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQF_pinetop-perkins_Belzoni-MS.html
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Blues piano master Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins was born on July 7, 1913, on the Honey Island Plantation, seven miles southeast of Belzoni. Perkins spent much of his career accompanying blues icons such as Sonny Boy Williamson No…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQE_confederate-hospital_Newton-MS.html
In 1863, Willis R. Norman received a Confederate Government contract to construct a hospital in Newton. The hospital complex, which is said to have consisted of 7 hospital and commissary buildings, was built on this site. Approximately 1,000 Confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQD_pocahontas-mounds_Jackson-MS.html
Built and used between A.D 1000 and 1300, this platform mound and a nearby burial mound mark the ceremonial and political seat of a regional chiefdom of the Plaquemine culture. A thatched, clay-plastered ritual temple or chief's lodging stood atop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQC_griersons-raid_Newton-MS.html
Here at Newton Station, on April. 24, 1863, Federals under General Benjamin H. Grierson struck the Vicksburg-Meridian rail route, tore up tracks, & burned depot.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ7_gatemouth-moore_Yazoo-City-MS.html
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Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore was one of America most popular blues singers in the 1940s before becoming a renowned religious leader, radio announcer, and gospel singer. He served as pastor of several churches in Mississippi an…