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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217G_livin-at-lula_Lula-MS.html
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The Lula area has been home to legendary Mississippi blues performers Charley Patton, Son House, Frank Frost, and Sam Carr. Patton immortalized Lula in the lyrics of his recordings "Dry Well Blues" (1930) and "Stone Pony Bl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217F_hernando-de-soto-commemorative-bridge_Dundee-MS.html
The Hernando de Soto expedition to explore and claim the Southeast for Spain crossed the Mississippi River on June 18, 1541, at a point in northwestern Mississippi between Sunflower Landing in Coahoma County to the south and Bass Landing in DeSoto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217E_salomon-mounds_Coahoma-MS.html
When first recorded, Salomon Mounds had three (possibly four) large platform mounds and as many as eight smaller mounds arranged around a central plaza. The smaller mounds have been plowed away, while one of the large mounds was destroyed in 1958 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P5E_dr-aaron-henry_Clarksdale-MS.html
Born near Clarksdale, Aaron Henry was an
American civil rights leader, politician, and
head of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP.
He was one of the founders of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party, which tried to
seat their delegation…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXX_aaron-henry_Clarksdale-MS.html
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Aaron Henry, (1922-1977), Clarksdale pharmacist, was a major early grassroots activist in the civil rights movement. As local NAACP president, he led the early 1960s Clarksdale boycott campaign, during which he was arrested and his home a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXM_the-new-world_Clarksdale-MS.html
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This neighborhood, known since the turn of the twentieth century as the New World, was a breeding ground for ragtime, blues, and jazz music in Clarksdale's early days as a prosperous and adventurous new cotton town, when brothels here at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXL_big-jack-johnson_Clarksdale-MS.html
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The Clarksdale area is famed for its many legendary blues artists who achieved their greatest success after moving away, such as Muddy Waters, Ike Turner, and John Lee Hooker. But there were world-renowned musicians who remained lifelon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXK_riverside-hotel_Clarksdale-MS.html
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Since 1944 the Riverside Hotel has provided lodging for traveling musicians. It was home to some, including Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk. Before that, the building served African Americans of the Delta as the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXJ_first-baptist-m-b-church_Clarksdale-MS.html
In the late 1880s a group of African Americans established the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church near the Sunflower River, under the leadership of their first pastor Minister A. O. Gaston. The church would be moved to this location in 1918, chan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXE_ike-turner_Clarksdale-MS.html
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Rock 'n' roll and rhythm & blues pioneer Ike Turner began his career playing blues and boogie woogie piano in Clarksdale. Turner was born less than a mile south-west of this site, at 304 Washington Avenue in the Riverton neighborhood, on …