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NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION OWNERSHIP STORIES OF THEDELTA

RELATION TOOTHER LMDR SITES

VISITORSERVICES

COMMENTS

Arkansas RiverboatCo., “The Spirit”

Pulaski County,North Little Rock,Riverfront Park

150-passenger boat makesscheduled cruises.

Private Recreation Full service cruises None

Grayhawk FrontierTown

Lonoke County,Cabot

Re-created pioneer town Private Working People;People versus Nature

NA Unknown None

Pickles Gap Village Faulkner County,north of Conway

Crafts, arts, petting zoo,dining in re-created 19thcentury shops.

Private Recreation NA Unknown None

Arkansas ArtsCenter

Pulaski County,Little Rock,MacArthur Park

Drawings and prints ofArkansas and nationalartists; Arkansas Child-ren’s Theater base.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts

NA Unknown None

Arkansas CarouselRestoration Studio

Pulaski County,Little Rock

World’s only remainingHerschell-Spillman trackcarousel.

Unknown Recreation;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts

NA Unknown None

ArkansasGovernor’s Mansion


Home of all Arkansasgovernors since 1950.

Public Expressing culturalvalues

NA Tours None

Arkansas Museumof Science andHistory

Pulaski County,Little Rock,MacArthur Park

Birthplace of GeneralDouglas MacArthur in1880; former Little RockArsenal. Historic andscientific collections.

Public History; World War II;Civil War

NA Project is underwayto make this amilitary museum.

Military arsenal, foundedin 1838, was first militaryarsenal established west ofthe Mississippi. Also wassite of civil war conflict.

Arkansas StateCapitol


Building modeled on theU. S. Capitol.

Public Government NA Tours Construction began 1899;Arkansas legislature firstconvened here in 1911.

Arkansas TerritorialRestoration


Oldest structures in LittleRock date to territorialdays; was a tavern. Livinghistory representation ofslavery, craft shops,artists’ exhibits, CromwellExhibition Hall, historywall, tours.

Public Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts,crafts; Architecture,cotton-centeredexperience

NA Living historydemonstrations

Living history representa-tion of slavery is a personalexperience that gives visi-tors a sense of history morethan any other exhibit.House of and exhibit onWilliam Woodruff, founderof the Arkansas Gazette,state’s first newspaper,which still exists.

Bauxite Museum Saline County;Bauxite

Displays from early min-ing days of town that wasonce the center of U.S.aluminum production.

Private Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy; CulturalDiversity; ResourceExtraction

Outside Benton, nearLittle Rock

Enthusiasticmuseum staff withinteresting stories.Site may become awildlife refuge.

Company town 1893-1968.Some workers were black,Italian, and Mexican. Mex-icans lived in a tent citycalled “Mexico Camp.”Many people who workedfor company still live inarea and express positivefeelings toward mining.

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Camp NelsonCemetery

Lonoke County,Cabot

Monument to unknownTexas and ArkansasConfederate soldiers.

Unknown Civil War NA NA None

Daniel GreathouseHome

Faulkner County,Conway

19th-century structurewith dogtrot style cabin.

Unknown Architecture NA Unknown None

Decorative ArtsMuseum


Located in historic Pike-Fletcher-Terry house;features permanent andtraveling displays.

Unknown Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts.

NA Self-guided tour None

Gann Museum Saline County,Benton

World’s only bauxitestructure, built in 1893.Museum retells miningbackground and otherlocal history.

Unknown Architecture; WorkingPeople

NA NA One-of-a-kind attraction

Little Rock CentralHigh School


High School where 1957integration crisis tookplace.

Public Cultural Diversity;Civil Rights

NA None The 1957 incident at thisschool became a milestonein the fight for desegre-gation.

MarlsgatePlantation

Pulaski County,Scott

Turn-of-the-centuryplantation home, restoredwith vintage furniture andaccessories.

Unknown VernacularArchitecture, cotton-centered experience

NA Tours None

Mosaic Templars ofAmerica Head-quarters


Built in 1911; head-quarters of one of thelargest African-Americanfraternal organizations.

Private Cultural Diversity NA Unknown None

Old Mill Pulaski County,North Little Rock

Re-creation of a water-powered grist mill,featured in movie Gonewith the Wind.

Public Agriculture;Developing theAmerican Economy

NA None Beautiful site, veryaccessible

Old State House Pulaski County,Little Rock

Greek revival architecture;now a museum of statehistory.

Public Architecture NA Tours This building was the siteof Clinton’s victory partiesin 1992 and 1996.

PlantationAgricultureMuseum

Pulaski County,Scott

Museum focuses on cottonand its role in the South.

Public Working people;cotton-centeredexperience

NA Museum None

Quapaw QuarterHistoric District


Restored Antebellum andVictorian structures.

Public Architecture NA Driving andwalking toursavailable

None

Shoppach House Saline County,Benton

1853 house occupied byNorth and South duringthe Civil War.

Private Architecture, CivilWar

NA Tours byappointment

None

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Blues Corner Phillips County,Helena

Collection of recordingsand sheet music featuringDelta blues.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music

Helena SitesOther

None None

Heart of ArkansasFarm Tours

Chicot County,Dermott

Tours to rice and soybeanfarming operations,Stuttgart AgriculturalMuseum, and prairielands.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: agriculture

NA None None

Old Almer Store Phillips County,Helena

Plantation store built in1872 and restored forArkansas bicentennial;now Delta arts and crafts.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts, folkart

NA NA None

Town of Clarendon Monroe County,between the WhiteRiver and highway79

Small settlement,originally called “mouthof cache,” dates back to1799 and has persisted asa travel junction since1837, when a militarycrossing from Memphis toLittle Rock allowed forthe creation of a township.

Unknown Working People;People versus Nature;Civil War

The Roc Roe Bayou isconnected to the WhiteRiver, and a cannon sunkin what was then calledHart Lake has never beenrecovered. Factory workcrafted oars and pearlbuttons shaped frommussels found in theriver.

Hull of sunken shipstill visible whenriver is low; nomarker on the site.

Town nearly destroyedJune 24, 1864, afterConfed. Gen. Joseph O.Shelby’s Missouri brigadesank Union gunboat,Queen City near townsite.Ship never raised. Townsuffered. in 1927 flood.Old ferries marked the site.

New Deal Market Ouachita County,Camden

Family-owned grocerystore founded by Chineseimmigrant in 1948; firstoperated as a generalstore.

Private Cultural Diversity;Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

Camden is a river townwith a rich antebellumhistory

No historicalmarkings on site

Mr. Lee Lum met U.S.Senator David Pryor’sfather, Edgar, on a tripthrough Camden to HotSprings, and the twodiscussed the practicalityof opening a grocery store.The store is now owned bythe second generation ofthe family.

Palmer’s GroceryStore

Ouachita County,‘Camden

Grocery and feed storefounded in 1928.

Private Working People Camden No visitor serviceson the site

Founder Milo ParkerPalmer, a mess sergeant inWW I, opened a grocerystore and hired out as acook to local groups, alsoworked as a butcher.Leased 1,100 acres for $40a yr. to grow feed. Storenow in second generationof ownership.

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Hampton ChurchCemetery

Calhoun County,Hampton

Gravesites of a militarycaptain and his blind wife.

Private Spirituality, Military NA NA Military captain took intwo girls who survived theMountain Meadowmassacre in Utah, one ofwhom was blinded in theattack. He left them with achurch in Hampton, andafter years of corres-pondence he married theblind girl.

Sacred HeartAcademy (formerhome of Col. HenryBiscoe

Phillips County,Helena

Founded as a convent byfour sisters of mercy andBishop Henry Byrne fromIreland in 1858 in formerBiscoe residence.

Private Spirituality; Civil War Other sites in Helena Marker onsite Founded as a convent; wasa hospital during 1863battle of Helena. Closed in1868; reopened 1879 bySisters of Charity.

Paragould Mural Greene County,Paragould

200-foot mural depictingearly transportation in atown formed by twointersecting railroads.

Unknown Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads

NA Was owned by twomen namedParamour and JayGould; names werecombined to formParagould. Goulddid not like havingsecond billing.

Arkansas has a number ofmurals depicting localhistory. The art formprovides an attractive andrelatively inexpensive wayof celebrating history.

Sea Wall Mural Phillips County,Helena

Mural depicts blueshistory and early Helenahistory.

Unkown History; ExpressingCultural Values: music

Behind the Delta CulturalCenter

NA None

SouthlandGreyhound Park

Crittenden County,West Memphis

One of the largest grey-hound racing facilities inthe country.

Private Recreation NA NA None

Arkansas CountyMuseum

Arkansas County,south of Gillett

Collection of Delta struc-tures, including farmequipment; also focuseson country doctors.

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy: agriculture;Cultural Diversity

NA Self-guidedmuseum

None

Arkansas PostNational Memorial

Arkansas County,south of Gillett

Has been a French fortand a Spanish fort, site ofskirmish after AmericanRevolution, a river port,site of a civil war battle,territorial capital.

Was French,Spanish, Frenchagain, thenAmericanFederal

Peopling Places;Cultural Diversity:Native American,French, Spanish;Revolutionary War;Civil War;Colonialism; WorkingPeople (trade), EarlyExploration

Early settlers, explorersinclude Henri de Tonti,Robert La Salle;naturalists John JamesAudubon and ThomasNuttall visited

Visitor center,barrier-free trails,fishing areas;comprehensivestudy by Morris S.Arnold: ColonialArkansas 1686-1804 (1991)

First lower MississippiRiver Valley settlementestablished by de Tonti in1686; developed as tradingstation after La Salle in1682; site of John Law’scolony, ca. 1719. Firstslaves in area 1721.

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Centennial BaptistChurch


African-American churchdesigned by African-American architect HenryJames Price.

Private Spirituality;Architecture; CulturalDiversity

Helena has several pointsof interest, most dealingwith the blues or otheraspects of Delta life

NA Church grew from 23members in 1879 to more1,000 members in 1922.

Arkansas City Desha County,Arkansas City

Small town that was onthe Mississippi Riverbefore 1927 flood. Severalbuildings in need ofrestoration. Courthouseclock was restored 1996.

NA Mississippi River;Cultural Diversity;People versus Nature;Building the AmericanEconomy: steamboats;Recreation

Arkansas City stands byitself. It is not on theGreat River Road, but itshould be.

Perhaps best possi-bility for re-creatinga river town. Excel-lent opportunityexists. Visitorscould get a feelingfor life on theMississippi.

Town has nearly died after1927 flood and resultingchange in river course.Was steeped in steamboatculture; 17 saloons and nochurches. Streets werenamed for famous steam-boats such as Robert E.Lee and Kate Adams.

Chalk Bluff Park Clay County, northof St. Francis

Civil War battle site Public Civil War NA Unknown None

Dallas CountyMuseum

Dallas County,Fordyce

Museum, housed in 1907building, has displays on alocal physician, BearBryant, and Adm. Thach,inventor of the ThachWeave, an aerial fightingtactic. Also has displayson local Native Americanculture.

Private History; NativeAmericans; WorkingPeople; Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: sports

Fordyce was a lumbercenter around the turn ofthe century.

Displays are in-formed, but moreinformation is need-ed on country phy-sicians and on pro-jectile points to putthem in properperspective.

This museum could usesome help in research;probably has less thanextravagant, financialbacking.

Tontitown WashingtonCounty, Tontitown

Italian settlement formedby settlers unsatisfied withlabor agreements.

NA Working People;Cultural Diversity

NA NA None

Rowher Desha County,Rowher

Internment camp whereJapanese-Americans wereheld during WW II.

NA Cultural Diversity;World War II;Patriotism

Jerome, Arkansas alsohad a relocation center.State parks have reportedmuch interest indeveloping the two sitesin recent years.

Only a markerstands at Rowher.Japanese-Americancitizens have cre-ated a garden. Oth-ers have said thesite is very moving.

Deaths in the camp, 24;others were killed in thearmed services in Europe,including in 442nd Jap-anese-American unit of the100th battalion, whichdistinguished itself in WWII combat.

ConfederateCemetery


Historic Confederateburial ground laid out onthe upsurge of Crowley’sRidge.

Private Civil War Helena NA None

Crittenden CountyMuseum

Crittenden County,Earle

Museum, in MissouriPacific depot, has exhibiton rural physicians,collections of artifacts.

Public Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads

NA None

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Phillips CountyMuseum


Museum with Civil Warmemorabilia, localhistory.

Public Mississippi River;Civil War

NA None

Desha CountyMuseum

Desha County,Dumas

Re-creation of life in atypical south Arkansasfarming community;emphasis on pioneer life.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy;’ WorkingPeople; ExpressingCultural Values:family, cotton-relatedexperiences;Agriculture

NA Excellent visitorservices, open twoafternoons a week

Grounds are well kept

Poison SpringBattlegroundHistoricalMonument

Ouachita County,west of Camden

Site where Confederatesoldiers captured a Unionsupply train in 1864.

Public Civil War Marks Mills is also abattle site connected withthe Red River campaign.

NA Supply train was capturedduring the Union’s ill-fatedRed River campaign.

Tate Barn Sale Ouachita County,Tate Barn

Major arts and craftsfestival held in the oldestbuilding in the county.

Private VernacularArchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues: festivals

Camden None

Indian SummerPow-Wow

Ouachita County,Camden

Traditional NativeAmerican dancing,competition, arts, food.

NA Cultural Diversity:Native Americans

Camden Unknown None

Southern ArkansasUniversity

Columbia County,Magnolia

Tour of agriculturalschool, Ozmer House, and1883 dogtrot structure.

Public VernacularArchitecture; agricul-ure

NA NA None

Emerson RotaryTiller races

Columbia County,Emersons

Rotary tiller races NA Agriculture; Expres-ing Cultural Values

NA NA None

Marks MillsBattleground andCemetery

Cleveland County,Marks Mills

1864 battle site; cemeteryis also resting place ofearly settlers.

Private Civil War Marks Mills was part ofthe Union’s Red Rivercampaign

Unknown None

Armadillo Festival Ashley County,Hamburg

Festival oriented towardchildren.

NA Expressing CulturalValues

NA NA None

Ashley CountyMuseum

Ashley County,Hamburg

Museum in 1918 two-story house. Large shedhouses collection of horse-drawn vehicles.

Ashley CountyHistoricalSociety

Cultural Diversity:Native Americans;Agriculture

NA Unknown Sleighs, wagons, and farmtools in large shed. Mu-seum emphasizes clothing,furniture, local history,including NativeAmerican.

Phil’s Antique Barn Calhoun County 1930 structure now housescounty memorabilia

Private Agriculture NA NA

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Arkansas Oil andBrine Museum

Union County, nearSmackover

Museum tells story of1920s oil boom in southArkansas, gives a compre-hensive look at history ofthe industry. actual rigsand equipment, originalfields.

Public Working People;Resource Extraction

NA Well-definedprograms; completemenu ofinterpretivedisplays

Derricks, pumps, and jacksare part of a visual workingdisplay.

Parker PioneerHomestead

Poinsett County,Harrisburg

Displays include logcabin, broom shop,chapel, covered wagon,grist mill, and sorghummill and pit;demonstrations ofsorghum making and lyesoap making.

Private Working People;Agriculture

NA Demonstrations None

Arkansas StateUniversity Museum

Craighead County,Jonesboro

Museum with 100 exhibitscovering prehistory topresent.

Public Cultural Diversity:Native Americans;Agriculture;Mississippi River,History

Delta Cultural Center,Helena

Arkansas StateUniversity atJonesboro has bestcollectiveinterpretation on theDelta in Arkansasthrough themuseum and anumber ofprofessors.

None

Museum LepantoUSA

Poinsett County,Lepanto

Delta history exhibits Public Cultural Diversity;Mississippi River

NA Unknown None

Hampson Museum Mississippi County,Wilson

Collection of artifactsfrom the Nodena site, LateMississippi period culture.

Public Native American NA Excellent visitorservices

Interest in archeology oflocal Dr. James K.Hampson led to thiscollection, drawing directlyfrom the Nodena site.

Delta CulturalCenter


Detailed look at Delta lifeand times, housed in a1912 train depot (donatedby Union Pacific). Focuson agriculture, the river,the people, and the blues.

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music, family;Working People;Mississippi River;Agriculture; cotton-related experience,timber

Other sites in Helena Very user-friendly;well-developedhistory of the Delta.Tells a coherent,but varied story.

Helena helped severalArkansas country singersdevelop their roots in theblues. Conway Twitty,Johnny Cash, and CharlieRich all have ties to thearea and are Arkansasnatives.

Marianna / LeeCounty Museum

Lee County,Marianna

Exhibits include generalstore, parlor, kitchen,cotton; also Civil War andWorld War II artifacts.

Public Working People, CivilWar, cottonexperience,Agriculture

NA Museum None

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W. G. Huxtablepumping plant

Lee County,Marianna

Largest of its kind in theworld.

NA NA NA NA None

ParkinArcheological StatePark

Cross County,Parkin

Archeological study of aMississippi period Indianvillage, 1350-1550.

Public Native Americans NA Onsite interpretiveservices, researchstation, programs

Some scholars believe thisto be the village of Casqui,which De Soto visited in1541.

St. Francis CountyMuseum

St. Francis County,Forrest City

Native American andCivil War artifacts, localhistory

Public Native Americans;Civil War

NA Museum None

O. Demoret and SonGeneral MercantileStore and Museum

Phillips County,Elaine

Private Working People,Building the AmericanEconomy

NA Unknown None

Louisiana PurchaseState Park

Phillips County,Marvell

Monument marks thehistoric 1815 surveystarting point in what wasto become Arkansas.

Public Early Exploration;Colonial History

NA Good services, butpark probablyreceives little trafficbecause of remotelocation.

None

Lephiew Cotton Gin Chicot County,Dermott

In operation since 1886;open for tours duringharvest season.

Private Cotton-relatedexperience

NA Good example of amodern cotton gin

None

Rubye and HenryConnerly Museum

Chicot County,Eudora

Historic grocery store;local history artifacts.

NA Native Americans;Working People;Mississippi River;Agriculture

NA Efforts to increasehours and holdingsare underway.

None

Lindbergh Marker Chicot County,Lake Village

Marker indicates whereCol. Charles A. Lindberghmade his first night flightover Lake Chicot in 1923.

Public Aviation history In Lake Chicot State Park NA None

StuttgartAgriculturalMuseum

Arkansas County,Stuttgart

Impressive collection offarming implements anddisplays concerning farmlife on the Grand Prairie.Waterfowl wing; scalerepresentations ofcommunity church,school, and firehouse.

Public Cultural Diversity;Agriculture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

Ulm Stuttgart began as a Ger-man settlement on thesparsely populated GrandPrairie. It is now the ricecapital of the world. Amaz-ing story of an aerialstuntman, display of hisequipment

Herman DavisMemorial

Mississippi County,Manila

Monument to commemor-ate a great WW I herowho served under anddrew great praise fromGen. Jack Pershing.

Public World War I NA NA None

Woman’sProgressiveBuilding

Cross County,Wynne

Site is part of a 1936 WPAproject.

Unknown NA NA None

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Turner NealMuseum

Drew County,Monticello

Exhibits on the Arkansasnatural history.

Unknown Nature NA Unknown None

Fargo AgriculturalSchool Museum

Monroe County,Fargo

Floyd Brown, a Tuskegeegraduate, started school in1919 to give black stu-dents a good quality highschool education.

Private Cultural Diversity;Education

NA By appointment Syrian immigrants in area.

White River Flows fromMissouri throughArkansas andempties into theMississippi River.

Several historic sites alongthe river; Native Americanhistory, Civil War, andnow conservation con-cerns.

Private Working People;Cultural Diversity;Native Americans;Natural Resources

Batesville, Newport, DesArc, De Valls Bluff, andClarendon all began asriver ports.

NA The book The Last River,by Turner Browne,chronicles the lives ofpeople who make a livingalong the White River andthe threat that progressposes to their lives.

Houseboat dwellers White River,between Des Arcand Clarendon;possibly BlackRiver also. Prairie,Monroe, andPhillips Counties

A few independent soulsstill live in the style thatonce constituted sizablecommunities.

Private Working People;Expressing CulturalValues

NA No markers Percy writes of these folkin Lanterns on the Levee.

Pearl Divers White River �Jackson, White,Woodruff, Prairie,and MonroeCounties

Pearl divers once soldtheir finds to local factor-ies, where buttons weremade. Now the smallpearls are sold to Japanesecompanies.

NA Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

White River, especiallyClarendon, past home ofbutton factories

NA Japanese use the smallpearls to fertilize oysters,making their pearls morevaluable. The Last River byTurner Browne containsphotographs of pearl diversat work. Process looks likea cross between moviesDeliverance and Water-world.

Civil War Camden, Claren-don, Fort Smith,Helena (see“Comments”)

List of names in connec-tion with the war.

NA Civil War Dougan’s ConfederateArkansas

NA Jenkins Ferry, Little Rock,Mansfield, Marks Mills,Osceola, Pea Ridge, PoisonSprings, Red River cam-paign, Wilson’s Creek

Altus HeritageHouse Museum

Franklin County,Altus

The original German-American state bank, circa1800s, with local historyand coal mining exhibit.

Unknown Cultural Diversity;Building the AmericanEconomy; ResourceExtraction

NA Unknown None

Arkansas Rivervisitor center

Pope County,Russellville (OldPost Road Park)

Interpretive exhibit on thedevelopment of the river.

Public Development ofNatural Resources;Arkansas River

Russellville area Visitor Center None

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Arkansas andMissouri Railroad

WashingtonCounty, Springdale,

Restored railroad crosses1882 Winslow tunnel,restored tresses, and theBoston Mountains on ascenic ride.

Unknown Developing theAmerican Economy;Working People

Van Buren andSpringdale areas

Unknown None

Council Oak,Council Oaks CityPark

Yell County,Dardanelle

Massive 400 to 500-year-old white oak tree wherein 1820 a Cherokee chiefsigned a treaty giving allland south of the ArkansasRiver to the territory.

Public Native Americans NA NA Seemingly fitting connec-tion between the tree andthe treaty signing. The treeis a throwback to anothertime that has survived theinvasion, as the Cherokeedid not.

Crawford CountyCourthouse

Crawford County,Van Buren

The oldest activecourthouse west of theMississippi River; still hasthe original Seth Thomasclock.

Public Architecture Van Buren Unknown None

Mount Olive UnitedMethodist Church

Crawford County,Van Buren

This church, built in 1889,is said to hold the oldestblack congregation in theUnited Methodist systemwest of the Mississippi.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity

Van Buren NA NA

Ozark HeritageCrafts

Pope County, northof Russellville

Features handmade itemsof over 200 crafters.Woodcarving shop hasdemonstrations.

Unknown Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: crafts

Area is rich in Ozarkculture

Hands-ondemonstrationsoffered

The area along theArkansas River Valleyfrom Fort Smith to LittleRock is one of the fastest-growing sections ofArkansas. The region ismoving ahead economic-ally and maintains a senseof heritage.

Indian PaintbrushGallery

Benton County,Siloam Springs

Gallery of NativeAmerican paintings,weavings, pottery.

Private Cultural Diversity:Native Americans

NA Gallery NA

Thorncrown Chapel Carroll County,Eureka Springs

Chapel designed by E.Fay Jones, a Frank LloydWright student. Liberaluse of glass incorporatesthe surroundings into thework. Breathtaking.

Private Architecture NA NA NA

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Blythe’s Museum Scott County,Waldron,

Museum contains acollection of NativeAmerican artifacts andlocal history exhibits.

Private Local history; NativeAmericans,

NA Museum Museum is in the secondfloor of a brake and front-end shop; both are ownedby the same man. Thecollections are a result of alifelong hobby.

Cowie Wine Cellars Logan County,Paris

A family-owned andoperated winery

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: foodand drink

NA Tour includes ahistory of thefamily andwinemaking.

NA

DeGray Lake andDam

Clark County,between HotSprings andArkadelphia

13,800-acre lake withstate park, popular forfishing, camping,swimming, skiing, anddiving. Dam built in late1970s amid a fierce debateover the environmentalimpact.

Public, withprivate holdingsnear lake

People versus Nature DeGray Lake and dam arebetween Arkadelphia andHot Springs.

Private lodge;federalcampgrounds;resort

Only recently has theCorps of Engineers begunto talk candidly about theecological debate and someunpopular decisions sur-rounding the constructionof the dam.

Wolf HouseMemorial

Baxter County,Norfork

1820s “dogtrot” cabin.Museum features localhistory, includingmementos of builder Maj.Jacob Wolf.

Unknown VernacularArchitecture; CulturalDiversity; localhistory.

NA Unknown Cabin at one time was theCourthouse and countyseat. Museum includesmementos of builder Maj.Jacob Wolf, a Germanpioneer.

Arkansas House ofReptiles

Garland County,Hot Springs

Exhibit features 67 rareexhibits from six conti-nents.

Private Natural Resources Store co-owner also ownsRocky’s Corner, anItalian restaurant acrossfrom Oaklawn racetrack.

Store is run by anexpert on reptiles;seems to be a first-class operation.

Reptile house is more im-pressive than most zoos.Mr. Diorio has been col-lecting snakes and otherreptiles for years, searchingin some areas that requirevery exclusive permits.

ArkansasSymphony Gala


Arkansas SymphonyOrchestra performed withBernadette Peters Febru-ary 21, 1997.

NA Expressing CulturalValues: music

Robinson Center MusicHall in downtown LittleRock is just a few blocksfrom the Old Statehouseand Quapaw Quarters.

Arkansas SymphonyOrchestra handles its ownpromotion,

Toltec MoundsState Park

Lonoke County,Scott

Claims are made that thisis “one of the largestMound Builders sitesremaining in the LowerMississippi River Valley.”

Public Native Americans NA Guided toursavailable

None

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Hot SpringsMountain Tower

Garland County,Hot Springs

A 216-foot observationtower with indoor andoutdoor viewing decksoffering a spectacularoverlook of the historicdistrict and most of HotSprings.

Private NA Historic district of HotSprings

Open to the publicfor a cost of about$5. Focus is on giftshop rather thanhistory.

Incredible views of foliagein autumn.

Wagon YardMuseum

Lonoke County,England

Collection of early wag-ons, stagecoaches, andfarm equipment.

Private Working People;Agriculture

NA None

The Witness Garland County,Hot Springs

Contemporary Christianmusical drama at Mid-America Amphitheater.

Private Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues: music,performing arts

NA None

Crater of DiamondsState Park

Pike County,Murfreesboro

The only diamond-bearingfield in North Americathat is open to the public.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy; ResourceExtraction

NA Several exhibits,gift shop, andrecreational areas

None

King Biscuit BluesFestival


Four-day festival featuringa variety of music, as wellas food, arts, crafts, andphotography.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: gospel music,blues; Recreation:festivals

Festival is closely tied tothe Delta Cultural Centerin Helena.

Well publicized inthe immediate re-gion, but may berelatively unknownin areas withoutradio stations de-voted to bluesmusic; history ofthe music is pos-sibly underrepre-sented.

Helena puts a lot of effortinto showcasing the area,using King Biscuit as aspokespiece.

Mena Depot Center Polk County, Mena Local history museum andart gallery housed in arestored train depot.

Unknown Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: art

NA None

Murray’s DinnerPlayhouse


Contemporary musicalcomedy along with abuffet dinner.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music, drama;Recreation

NA Charter member ofNational Dinner TheatreAssociation.

National Cemetery Pulaski County,Little Rock

Cemetery established in1866.

Public Military History; CivilWar, other wars.

Little Rock Cemetery contains remainsof more than 22,000veterans from Civil Warthrough Desert Storm.

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Jacksonport StatePark

Jackson County,Jacksonport

Park surrounding 1869courthouse salutesJacksonport, a thrivingriverport town in the1800s. Reconstructedriverboat on site.

Public Civil War; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy: steamboats

NA Campsites, picnicsites

Town was occupied byConfederate and Unionforces during the Civil Warbecause of its strategiclocation. Made strong bysteamboats, it began todecline in the 1870s whenbypassed by the railroad.

Prairie CountyMuseum

Prairie County, DesArc

Exhibits on earlyArkansas settlement,transportation routes,river-based econ-omy,including fishing andshelling. A Civil Warexhibit focuses on river’srole in the war.

Public Civil War; WorkingPeople,

NA The interpretation ofArkansas’s rivers focuseson the White River.

Old WashingtonHistoric State Park

Hempstead County,Washington (nearHope)

A 19th century restorationtown, includes 36 sites,including homes, church-es, cemeteries, a tavern, ajail, museums, a cottongin, and a re-createdblacksmith shop.

Public Civil War,Architecture, WorkingPeople

The state park also hasworld’s onlybladesmithing school. Thetradition began with thewell-known Bowie knifeat this site.

The town,established in 1824,was an importantstop for peopletraveling to Texas,and it was theConfederate Capitalof Arkansas 1863-1865.

None

Jenkins’ Ferry, Grant County,south of Sheridan

Civil War battlefield, partof the Red River cam-paign; battle occurred onApril 29-30, 1864.

Public Civil War Red River campaignincluded Poison Springand Marks’ Mill.

None

Old DavidsonvilleState Park

Lawrence County,Pocahontas

Established in 1815,Davidsonville had firstpost office, courthouse,and land office in theArkansas territory.

Public Early Settlement;Working People

NA Campsites, picnicareas, fishing

Town faded in the 1830s.

Ozark Folk Center Stone County,north of MountainView

Artisans demonstratehomestead skills andcrafts, Sunday gospelconcerts, live entertain-ment (pre-1940s musicalperformances), and craftfairs.

Public Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: folk art,drama, music

NA Sunday gospelconcerts, liveentertainment sixnights a week,restaurants, lodge

Cabin crafts offered in22 living historyexhibits demonstratingbarrel-making, broom-making, blacksmithing,etc. in summer and fall;gift shop featureshomemade furniture,toys, and food.

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PowhatanCourthouse StatePark

Lawrence County,Powhatan

Courthouse, built in 1888from bricks made onsite,features delicate wood-work and a classicVictori-an cupola; jail wascon-structed of limestone.This state park featuresrestored courthouse, jail,and a museum on earlyexploration.

Public VernacularArchitecture; EarlySettlement

NA NA Powhatan was a busyriverport town in mid-1800s, site of a famousferry. Today thecourthouse serves asarchives for some of theoldest records in Arkansas.

Prairie GroveBattlefield StatePark

WashingtonCounty, PrairieGrove

Civil War battlefield inthe Ozarks. Museumempha-sizes life of a CivilWar soldier. Buildings re-semble 19th century hillcommunity.

Public Civil War NA Museum Exhibits and interpretiveprograms depict Civil Warperiod and its impact onArkansas.

Lake Chicot StatePark

Chicot County,Lake Village

Most events at this statepark feature birds orfishing. Civil War Week-end is in October.

Public Civil War Civil War reenactment ofthe battle at Ditch Bayou.

NA None

Town of Fordyce Dallas County,Fordyce

Town founded by CivilWar Col. Samuel Fordyce;home to WW II Adm.John H. Thach, navalaviator and inventor of the“Thach Weave”; Birth-place of Coach Paul“Bear” Bryant;

Public Civil War; World WarII; Aviation;Expressing CulturalValues: sports

Dallas County Museum isin Fordyce

NA Home of world’s firstsouthern pine plywoodmill, Georgia-Pacific Corp.First direct-dial longdistance telephone call inU.S. was made from AlliedTelephone Company inFordyce in 1960. FirstAME church started inHolly Springs by RobertSingleton.

Arkansas TerritorialRestoration. AnnualMay festival


Living history reenact-ments on Mother’s Dayweekend festival. ATRhas an African-AmericanLiving History Troupethat sings and performs.

Public Civil War, CulturalDiversity; ExpressingCultural Values: music

On grounds of ArkansasTerritorial Restoration

NA None

Town of Helena Phillips County,Helena

Site of Civil War battle inJuly 1863

NA Civil War NA NA None

De Valls Bluff Monroe County; DeValls Bluff

Site of federal garrisonsduring Civil War

NA Civil War NA NA None

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Elaine Phillips County,Elaine

Site of 1919 race riot inresponse to efforts by theProgressive Farmers andHousehold Union, whichasked for higher prices forcotton grown by blacktenant farmers.

NA Working People;Cultural Diversity

NA NA None

Ulm Prairie County,Ulm

Modern town that beganas a German settlementwhen war veteransclaimed land on the GrandPrairie.

NA Cultural Diversity;Early Settlement

Stuttgart NA None

Towns of Hicks andBarton

Phillips County,Hicks and Barton

Two towns heavilypopulated by Swissimmigrants who settled onrailroad land in late 19thcentury.

NA Cultural Diversity;Early Settlement

NA NA None

Arkansas RailroadMuseum

Jefferson County,Pine Bluff

Museum with railroadmemorabilia, includingpassenger and freight carsand Engine 819.

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Working People

NA NA None

Bradley CountyHistorical Museum

Bradley County,Warren

Building housing museumis on the National Registerof Historic Places; mu-seum tells local history.

Public Local history NA Museum None

Drew CountyHistorical Museum

Drew County,Monticello

House built in 1909contains artifacts andantiques; two 1800s logcabins also on the site.

Public VernacularArchitecture; EarlySettlement

NA Museum NA

Grant CountyMuseum / HeritageVillage

Grant County,Sheridan

Collection of restoredbuildings houses artifactsrelated to local history

Unknown Local History; EarlySettlement

NA Museum, tours NA

Keepers of theSpirit /Persistenceof the Spirit


Display chronicles historyof black Arkansans and ofUniversity of Arkansas atPine Bluff.

Private NA NA Display can be seenby appointment

University of Arkansas atPine Bluff display chroni-cles history of blackArkansans and of UAPB.

McCollum-Chichester House

Ouachita County,Camden

Historic home, now amuseum, was a stagecoachdepot through Civil War;house still sports bulletholes from a Civil Warbattle.

Private Civil War NA Museum NA

Nevada CountyDepot museum

Nevada County,Prescott,

Old-fashioned railroaddepot.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads

NA Museum NA

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Pine Bluff /Jefferson CountyHistorical Museum


History of city, county,railroads, and especiallylumber.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Resource Extraction

NA Museum NA

Pioneer Village Cleveland County,Rison

Re-created 19th centuryvillage with blacksmithshop and log cabins.

Private VernacularArchitecture; EarlySettlement; WorkingPeople

NA Tours NA

Sevier CountyMuseum

Sevier County, DeQueen

County history, plus toursof 1840 home at the site ofParaclifta, once a thrivingtown.

Public NA NA Museum, Tours NA

Wiggins cabin / Oldcompany house

Ashley County,Crossett

Log cabin and shotgunmill house in Crossett citypark.

Public Working People NA Tours NA

Town of MarkedTree

Poinsett County,Marked Tree

Town began in 1881 as aconstruction camp. Ablazed oak tree marked aford and portage point atconfluence of St. Francisand Little Rivers.

NA Working People NA NA The town has the world’sthree largest siphons.

Meador’s DrugStore; DeshaCounty Museum

Desha County,Dumas

1940s style lunch counterstill serving

Private Working People NA NA NA

Felsenthal NationalWildlife Refuge

Union County, westof Crossett

65,000 acres for fishing,hunting, and wildlifeobservation, especiallybird life.

Federal Natural Resources NA NA NA

Mississippi CountyHistorical Center

Mississippi County,Osceola

Historical center occupiesa building that was amercantile store for 86years.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values:literature

Town is called Plum Pointin some of Mark Twain’sstories.

Unknown Fred Patterson had the firststore built in 1901. His soncontinued the businessafter his death in 1964.

Old DavidsonvilleState Park

Randolph County Davidsonville was site ofthe state’s firstcourthouse, post office,and land office (see“Comments”).

Public History; EarlySettlement; PeoplingPlaces

NA NA Town was the seat ofLawrence County in 1815,while Arkansas was still aterritory. It flourishedthrough travel along theBlack River and an oldmilitary road betweenSaint Louis and Texas.

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Pearogue SchoolHollow

Izard County, northof Boswell

1915 wooden schoolbuilding

Private Vernaculararchitecture

NA Unknown School is not a typicalwhite-washed rectangularbuilding, but looks like amodern art project; trim iselaborate and pronounced,rather like an orientalpagoda. The school is setin the middle of the woods,creating an interestingcontrast.

Pea Ridge NationalMilitary Park

Benton County, PeaRidge

Civil War battlefield Federal Civil War NA Onsite services,tours

Pea Ridge was a key battlein deciding the fate ofMissouri. Saint Louishoused important arsenals.

Petit Jean State Park Conway County,southwest ofMorrilton

State park features amountain overlook and a95-foot waterfall. Mostfacilities were built by theCCC.

Public Natural Resources NA ‘Petit Jean Mountain liesbetween the Ouachita andOzark mountains.

Lum ‘n’ AbnerMuseum

MontgomeryCounty; Pine Ridge

Collection of memorabiliaconcerning the careers ofprincipals of a popular1930s radio show, whichstarred two local men in anationwide radio programbased on the region.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: radioentertainment

NA Town changed its name in1936 to match the fictionaltitle “Pine Ridge” tocapitalize on public interestin the show.

White RiverRailway

Marion County,Flippin

Vintage train gives traintrips along White River.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Recreation

Train stops at CotterAccess, Buffalo City,Norfork, and CalicoRock.

Train makes tworound trips per day.

None

Queen WilhelminaState Park

Polk County,northwest of Mena

Mountain lodge built in1898 by railroad investorsto honor of the queen ofHolland.

Public History NA None

Janssen Park Polk County, Mena Park has two mountainhowitzer cannons, oneused in the Civil War, theother in the Mexican War.1851 log cabin, area’s firsthomesite.

Public Military History;VernacularArchitecture

NA Unknown Cabin has been a hospital,a post office, an inn, a cityhall, and allegedly ahideout for Jesse James.

Wal-Mart VisitorCenter

Benton County,Bentonville

Sam Walton’s first varietystore opened in 1945.

Private Building the AmericaEconomy

NA Visitor Center Wal-Mart is now thelargest retailer in theUnited States.

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Town of Deer Newton County,Deer

Near Cherokee settlementsalong the 1820s and 1830sTrail of Tears.

NA Native Americans NA NA Sequoyah is said to havestayed at Deer whiledeveloping the writtenversion of the Cherokeelanguage.

Searcy CountyMuseum

Searcy County,Marshall

Displays of 19th centuryfarm implements, CivilWar memorabilia.

Public Civil War, Agriculture NA Museum None

Van Buren CountyMuseum

Van Buren County,Clinton

Museum features localhistory, including displayson rural medicine, war,agriculture, and earlyhistory.

Public Military history;Agriculture; EarlySettlement

NA Museum None

Cummins Prison,Varner

Lincoln County,Varner

Varner housed thebarracks for CumminsPrison, an inmate farm.

Public Cultural Diversity NA Unknown The prison was a target ofreform for the first 60 yearsof this century.

Scott Joplin mural Miller County,Texarkana

Mural 20’ x 140’depicting life andcompositions of famousragtime composer ScottJoplin.

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: music

NA NA One of Joplin’scompositions was TheEntertainer.

Town of Piggot Clay County,Piggot

Town hosted ErnestHemingway while heworked on A Farewell toArms. Hemingwaymarried a local woman.

NA Expressing CulturalValues: literature,movies

NA Hemingway’sstudio is nowprivately owned,not open to public.

Piggott was also the site ofmovie, A Face in theCrowd, starring AndyGriffith. Piggott wasestablished as a railroadtown.

Town of Gregory Woodruff County,Gregory

Possible home ofConfederate raiderQuantrill. One L. J.Crocker settled here in1867, lived until 1917 (see“Comments”).

NA Civil War NA Local legend saysCrocker wasQuantrill, and henever denied therumor.

Crocker, saying he camefrom Georgia, arrived withnothing but a horse and agood deal of money. Hebought a large farm.Several local people saidhe was Quantrill, whom heresembled.

Battle of CottonPlant

Woodruff County,Cotton Plant

Site of Civil War battle onJuly 7, 1862. (WoodruffCounty is named afterfounder of state’s oldestnewspaper.

NA Civil War; EarlyHistory

NA NA Another battle took placein Woodruff County April1, 1864, at Fitzhugh’swoods north of Augusta.Many stores still bear ironplates of immigrantfounders.

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Buffalo RiverRafting

Marion County A man named WalterIsom, who died in 1969,made a living raftingtimber down the Buffaloand White Rivers.

Private Working People NA Rafting Walter Isom was one of thecounty’s last raftsmen.Buffalo River is nowBuffalo National River.

Home of “AuntCaroline” Dye

Jackson County,Newport

“Aunt Caroline” was awell-known black fortuneteller / clairvoyant wholived in Newport in theearly 1900s.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; ‘ethnicity,vernacular

NA There is someinterest in erectinga marker or openingthe house.

“Aunt Caroline” ismentioned in W. C.Handy’s “SundownBlues.”

Blackville Jackson County,Blackville

Town settled by 53 blackfamilies in wake of CivilWar. Former slave namedPickens Black owned6,000 acres and startedtown after the Civil War.

NA Cultural Diversity;local history

NA NA No Blackville familiesaccepted relief during theGreat Depression

Jamestown IndependenceCounty, Jamestown

Town founded in 1869,was destroyed by fireAugust 1921.

NA Education; localhistory

NA NA Town grew to supportArkansas Normal Collegebefore entire towndestroyed by fire in August1921.

Pfeiffer StoneCompany

IndependenceCounty, Batesville

Local rock companyfounded in 1903 byGerman immigrant FritzKrueger.

Private Cultural Diversity;Building the AmericanEconomy

NA Unknown None

Kingsland Cleveland County,Kingsland

Hometown of countrymusic legend Johnny Cashand football coach BearBryant

NA Expressing CulturalValues: music;Recreation, sports

NA NA This town of about 300people does not capitalizeon its amazing hometownsons.

SunnysidePlantation on LakeChicot

Chicot County,SunnysidePlantation

Antebellum plantation thatbecame infamous in 1900sthrough abuse of Italianimmigrants.

Private Working People;Cultural Diversity;Agriculture

NA Tours Several scholars havepublished material aboutthe area. A recent book hasbeen done by JeannieWhayne of University ofArkansas at Fayetteville.

Arkansas IndianCulture Center

Sharp County,Hardy

Unknown Native Americans NA Unknown None

Bald KnobCentennial Museum

White County, BaldKnob

NA NA NA Museum None

Blytheville HeritageMuseum

Mississippi County,Blytheville

Museum focuses on thelegacy of cotton and onlocal aviation.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: cotton, steelindustry; Aviation

NA Museum None

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Living FarmMuseum of theOzarks

Randolph County,Pocahontas

Unknown Agriculture NA Museum None

Log Cabin Museum Prairie County, DesArc

Re-created “dogtrot”museum

NA VernacularArchitecture; WorkingPeople

NA NA

Ozark Heritage ArtsCenter and Museum

Searcy County,Leslie,

Museum of local history,art gallery, and a 400-seattheater in a restored 1938WPA gymnasium.

NA Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts;Building the AmericanEconomy

Good exhibitssuffer from neglectover the years

Museum consists of fourrooms of artifacts,especially on localbusinesses

South Arkansas ArtsCenter

Union County, ElDorado

A 200-seat studio; two artgalleries featuring visualarts changing monthly;ballet and music lessons.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts,dance, music

Unknown Well-established program9 to 5 Mondays throughFridays

Veterans’ MilitaryMuseum of Hardy

Sharp County,Hardy

Museum concerningmilitary history

Private Military history Museum One room, “the motorpool,” displays vehiclesfrom World War II toVietnam. Another exhibitcontains memorabilia fromthe Civil War throughDesert Storm.

White CountyHistorical Museum

White County,Searcy,

Log cabin c. 1840;original one-roomschoolhouse; rebuiltgeneral store

Private VernacularArchitecture; localhistory

Museum None

Mammoth SpringState Park

Fulton County,Mammoth Spring

State’s largest spring, 10thlargest in world, featuringexcellent fishing and float-ing. Onsite 1880s railroadmuseum, and an old pow-erhouse that was operatedby the spring’s power.

State Natural Resources;Recreation

Fishing, boating,museum

None

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Old Landmark Inn& Captain’s TableRestaurant

Randolph County,Chester

Building near MississippiRiver, built in the 1830s,retains its original struc-ture but has beenremodeled.

Private Architecture; TheRiver

William & Ellen CohenMemorial Center, ElzieSegar Birthplace

Restaurant openonly on Thursday,Friday, and Satur-day; otherwise, alounge.

This restaurant overlookingthe Mississippi River isabout all that is left fromChester’s riverboat heydey.Delta Queen, other river-boats dock sometimes.Mark Twain is said to havefrequented here.

William & EllenCohen MemorialCenter


Ten-room white framemansion with glass win-dows tinted blue on upperhalf. Originally built in1855, building sits on ahigh bluff overlooking theMississippi River. Inside,fireplaces and woodworkreflect earlier era.

Public Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues

Old Landmark Inn &Captain’s TableRestaurant

Serves as acommunity centerthat welcomesvisitors; tours areconducted

Mark Twain referred to thecobalt windows of thestructure (untouched) inLife on the Mississippi.

Roscoe MisselhornArt Gallery

Randolph County,Sparta

Housed in the restored GM& O Railroad depot, gal-lery has about 900 pencilsketchings done over hislifetime by the local artist,now in his 90s.

Public Art; History Randolph CountyArchives Building, ASCProvincial House (RumaConvent) [sites Missel-horn sketched]

Weekend hours: 1p.m. to 5 p.m., butprivate tours can bearranged.

Sketches spanning 1920s topresent are of the surround-ing area, as well as St.Louis, Chicago, and otherplaces. Residents callMisselhorn their local“Norman Rockwell.”

PopeyeMuseum/SpinachCan Collectibles


Gift store selling Popeyememorabilia housed in theOld Opera House whereElzie Segar, Popeye’screator, once worked.

Private Expressing CulturalValues

NA Museum of Popeyememorabilia withitems to sell.

Elzie Segar, a native ofChester, created his “Pop-eye,” comic strip usinglocal people.

Popeye Mural on theside of the OldChester OperaHouse


Mural on the side of theOld Chester Opera House,where Elzie Segar worked.Includes Olive Oyl, Pop-eye, and Wimpy; givesnames of local people onwhich the characters arebased.

Public Expressing CulturalValues

Segar’s birthplace; markedgrave of Rocky Feigle[basis for Popeye].

Good for Popeyefans, can be viewedeasily.

Universal planning to opena Popeye theme park.Popeye has his own stamp.

Marked grave ofFrank “Rocky”Feigle, basis forPopeye.


Frank “Rocky” Feigle’sgrave, in St. Mary’s Ceme-tery, now has a tombstonewith a picture of Popeyeon it.

Grave wasmarked by thePopeye Fan Club

Expressing CulturalValues

NA Easily viewed Rocky Feigle was sort ofthe town bully; always hada pipe in his mouth.

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Riverboat Mural atU.S. Post Office


Built in June 1938, occu-pied in May 1939, site stillin use today. Real interestis 1930s wall mural, paint-ed around 1940 by FayDavis, a Depression artist.Shows Chester’s riverboatera.

Public The River;Architecture; Art;Women

Old Landmark Inn andCaptain’s TableRestaurant

Open regularbusiness hours.

Mural is described as a“Hollywood-type depic-tion” akin to Showboat.Other Fay Davis work issaid to be in other areas ofIllinois.

Sparta CommunityAirport/ “HunterField”

Randolph County,Sparta

Organized in 1959. Called“Hunter Field” after theHunter brothers, localaviation pioneers. Picturesof Hunter brothers withtheir aircraft and othermemorabilia hang in theoffice, and a plaque ismounted on a post.

Public Aviation NA No admission.Pavilion and picnicarea for public.

Hunter brothers, friends ofCharles Lindbergh, setaviation records, mostnotably world endurancerecord for flying overChicago nonstop for 28days in 1929. Two diedtragically, one air-related; 2others flew, private pilotfor a congressman, otherfor American Airlines.

John A. LoganMuseum

Jackson County,Murphysboro

Located at site of Logan’sbirth, museum honors Lo-gan, who fought in theMexican War in 1846 andserved as a Union soldier,rising to major general.

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

Logan fought in Battle ofBull Run, kept Unionforces from destroyingRaleigh after Lincoln’sdeath. Elected to Congressafter Mexican and CivilWars. Launched MemorialDay; swayed SouthernIllinois to Union side. VPmate, J. Blaine in 1884presidential race.

ASC ProvincialHouse (The RumaConvent)

Randolph County,Ruma

In a building built before1860s, Clara Zerr & 20sisters of Adorers of theBlood of Christ fleeingBismarck in 1876 settledon about 26 acres (formerboys’ school), began serv-ing German community ofsouthern Illinois. (see“Comments”)

Private Religion; EthnicDiversity;Architecture;Agriculture

Other religiouscommunities

Private propertyincludes a nursinghome; visitorsasked not to walkthe groundsunsupervised. Cancall to arrange tours.

Former school and semi-nary turned over to thesisters. Building additionsmade in 1870, 1890, 1925.Farm produces corn, wheat,cattle; sisters teach and aremissionaries. Now 500acres and serve worldcommunity. Provinceheadquarters.

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National CoalMuseum

Franklin County,near West Frankfort

Established 132 years ago,only mine shaft open tothe public. Located 600feet belowground. Visitorsenter a cage and dropdown. View is pre-dinosaur, over 300 millionyears old.

Public nonprofit Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

Other coal mines Open 7 days aweek, tour guidesare act-ual coalminers who workedin mine in ‘94before closing.Admission fee;groups of 20 ormore need reser-vation. Interpretersavailable with ad-vance notice. Mineopened August1996; has drawnover 4,000 visitors.

Dream of Charles Ledvina,former coal miner para-lyzed in mine accident.Dedicated to preservingrich coal mine heritage.Plans are to open restored1920s Hoist House, build-ing leads to the cageleading to mine. Morememorabilia will be added,too.

Randolph CountyMuseum andArchives


Stone Gothic buildingconstructed in 1864 nowhouses museum andarchives of FrenchColonial Records.

Public Architecture; EthnicDiversity

Roscoe MisselhornGallery (sketching ofbuilding)

Part-time curator,but can view build-ing during regularbusiness hours.

NA

Ibendahl Farmstead Perry County, nearDuQuoin

This 12-room house builtin 1850s contains LocustHill Academy, Illinois’sfirst graded school system(attended by John Logan).Started in 1858 by B. G.Roots, who also hid slavesduring Civil War.

Private Education; EthnicDiversity; Slavery;Civil War

John A. Logan Museum Tours byappointment only.The Ibendahls areknowledgeableabout the history.

NA

Harvey Pitt’sWaterfowl Museum

Perry County,DuQuoin

Display of 550 antiquewood duck decoys; alsomounted waterfowl

Private People versus Nature NA Tours byappointment only;entrance fee $1,refreshmentsprovided.

Harvey Pitt is well-spokenand knowledgeable. He hasexpanded his home to ac-commodate this museum.

Marion CulturalCenter

Williamson County,Marion

Restored 1921 vaudevilletheater

Public Expressing CulturalValues: theater arts.

NA Plays and perform-ances offeredthroughout the year.

Harry Houdini performedhere.

Egyptian Drive-InRestaurant

Williamson County Drive-in movie theater;world’s largest screen at12 stories high.

Private Recreation; ExpressingCultural Values

NA Eat-in restaurant.Movies shown fromFebruary toOctober.

One of Illinois’s remainingdrive-in movie theaters;old-fashioned prices.

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Depot Veterans’Museum/CoalMiners’ Memorial

Franklin County,West Frankfort

Restored railroad depothousing a museum ofmemorabilia of all 1900swars.

Public War; Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

National Coal Museum Tours available byappointment

NA

Frankfort AreaMuseum

Franklin County,West Frankfort

Built in 1916; containsexhibits spanning 1802-1976, including earlyhome, early doctor’soffice.

Public Peopling Places;Working People,

National Coal Museum;Depot Veterans’Museum/Coal Miners’Memorial

Open Wednesdaysand Thursdays

Has a widely used gen-ealogy library; also hasnoose used to hang CharlieBirger of the Shelton Gangin the 1920s.

The Hill House (Bed& Breakfast)

Franklin County,Sesser

Restored 1914 three-storyhouse with built-inbookcases, fireplace, chinacabinet. Contains originalpicture rail.

Private VernacularArchitecture

NA Four rooms avail-able for visitors,each with a differenttheme, one of whichis Lincoln-Douglass, another,antiques.

NA

Bald Knob Cross Union County Cross, 111 ft. tall, wascompleted in 1963 as anational symbol of faith inGod. When lit at night, canbe seen over 7,500 squaremiles.

Public Spirituality NA Bald Knob Recrea-tion Area is avail-able at no charge toall religious groups.Welcome center onpremise offersrefreshments.

First Easter service washeld here in 1937; woodencross built in 1938. Threewooden crosses still therewere erected in 1945.Founders Wayman Presleyand Rev. William Lirelydied in 1990 and 1992,respectively.

The SupermanMuseum

Massac County,Metropolis

Museum housing morethan 40,000 items relatingto Superman, includingcomic books, movie props,original art, a phone booth.

Private Popular Culture Superman statue Open 7 days a week9 a.m.-6 p.m.; $3general admission,children 5 & under,free.

NA

Superman Statue Massac County,Metropolis

Fifteen-foot statue with“Truth, Justice, and theAmerican Way” carved onits base.

Public Popular Culture The Superman Museum NA Only U.S. town namedMetropolis, so town raisedmore than $100,000 tobuild statue by sellingbricks where the statuestands. The local news-paper even renamed itselfThe Metropolis Planet.

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The ChocolateFactory

Pope County, DixonSprings

Chocolate shop featuringover 30 different kinds ofchocolate, plus a variety ofbeverages and ice cream.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: food

NA Restaurant Across the street fromDixon Springs State Park.

Colvis Orchards Randolph County,north of Chester

Orchards that have been inColvis family for fourgenerations.

Private Peopling Places; Food NA Closed Christmas tomid-April. Sellsbedding plants,chrysanthemums,holiday plants, driedflowers, candies,crafts, etc.

Harry Colvis moved to thissite in 1908 to escape theflood. Fourth generationnow operates the orchards.

Elzie Segar’sBirthplace (Creatorof Popeye)


Marker indicating whereElzie Segar was born.

Public/Private Popular Culture;Recreation

Popeye Statue; SpinachCan Murals; PopeyeMuseum; Rocky Feigle’sgrave

Marker only; houseis privatelyoccupied.

Segar created the comicstrip in 1929, basingcharacters on many townresidents, including hisboss for Wimpy. Popeyewill have a theme park atDisney World. He alreadyhas a stamp.

Popeye Statue Randolph County,Chester

Statue of Popeye commis-sioned by the city becausePopeye creator Elzie Segaris a Chester native.

Public Popular Culture Elzie Segar’s Birthplace;Popeye Mural; SpinachCan Collectibles; PopeyeMuseum

NA NA

Old Slave House Gallatin County,Equality

Three-story mansion builtbetween 1834 and 1838.Slaves were kept on thethird floor, and there was abreeding room to breednew slaves.

Private Slavery; RaceRelations

Other slavery-related sites Not open to publicat present.

Owner John Hart Crenshawbuilt this house where hekept slaves he bought andtraded on the third floor,where he also had twoslave posts for whippingslaves. There is much in thehouse. Hopefully someonewill ensure that it reopens.

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The AmericanFluorite Museum

Hardin County,Rosiclare

Museum dedicated tofluorspar, or fluorite,state’s official mineral. Onthe site of an actual minelast worked in 1954. Min-eral appears as crystals.Used in making steel,aerosols, ceramic glaze.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy

Other labor/industry sites Plans to start hoursfor visiting.

Originally lead was mined,but owners discoveredFluorspar could be usedwith steel; began mining itafter Civil War. Fluorsparappears as crystals in huesfrom purple to green, pink,yellow, and amethyst.

Veterans’ AffairsHospital


Hospital built in 1941 hasan Egyptian motif and ispainted in different hues ofpink, with terra cottarunning throughout. Inaddition, there are someeagles on top of thebuilding.

Public Architecture; War Egyptian Drive-inRestaurant

Can drive by andsee unusualarchitecture

Egyptian theme iscompatible with Cairo inAlexander, and the areaknown as “little Egypt.”

Concord Cemetery Pulaski Co.,Concord Cemetery,3 miles northwest ofOlmstead, IL

Small cemetery of 3 acreswhich has been there sincebefore the Civil War,estimates range around1828 to 1836. Grave of EdGore particular note.Notorious practical joker,had a tombstone built priorto death that kind of lookslike a pyramid.

Private Regional Creativity NA Can Visit Anytime The pyramid-like tomb-stone has a 10 ft. squarebase and goes about 40 feetup and has a cannonballatop it. Built in 1933, just alittle before Ed Gore died.

Concord cemetery Pulaski County,near Olmstead

Small 3-acre cemetery hasexisted since before theCivil War, estimates rangearound 1828 to 1836. Ofparticular note, grave ofEd Gore, a notoriouspractical joker who had arather pyramid-lookingtombstone built before hisdeath.

Private Regional Creativity NA Can visit anytime Gore’s pyramid-shapedtombstone has a base 10feet square and is about 40feet tall, with a cannonballatop it. Built in 1933, just alittle before Ed Gore died.

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Hamilton CountyHistorical SocietyMuseum

Hamilton County,second floor ofMcCoy MemorialLibrary,McLeansboro

Housed in a Victorianhouse built around 1884.War room in the museumincludes war memorabiliafrom Mexican War to theVietnam war. Also has agenealogy room.

Public Regional History;Military History

Other military and war-related sites

Open 1 p.m. to 4p.m. Mondays,Wednesdays, andFridays

This Victorian house islisted on the NationalRegister of Historic Places.

Matsel Cabin White County,Carmi

Log cabin built in 1850s -1860s that portrays mid-1800s life of an averagefamily.

Public Peopling Places Other “Peopling Places”sites

Carmi Chamber ofCommerce hasinformation

This may be only site inCarmi not on the NationalRegister of Historic Places.Perhaps it is a candidate aswell.

Mary Lou’s Jackson County,Carbondale

Restaurant started in the1960s; slogan is“Downtown, down home.”


Other restaurants Known for biscuitsand gravy,homemade creampies.

Everything is homemade inthis “downtown, downhome” restaurant that is atradition at SouthernIllinois University. Haspictures on the wall.

Saline County AreaMuseum

Saline County,Harrisburg

Eleven buildings on prop-erty, which was originallya poplar farm from 1855 to1948. Converted to muse-um in 1960. Contains a 22-room house that has asouth wing of 10 roomsbuilt in 1855, and a northwing with 12 rooms, in1877. Never used resi-dentially.

Public Peopling Places;Architecture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy; Religion

Other “Peopling Places”sites

Open 9 a.m. to 4p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; Sundays12-4 p.m., closedMondays

Of 170 original acres, 3.5remain. Cemetery acrossstreet is still in use. Build-ings on property brought infrom around county: one-room schoolhouse from1800s, small grocery store,post office, log cabin,church, caretaker’s cabinover 170 years old.

The Paul PowellMuseum

Johnson County,Vienna

Museum opened in 1979 atbirth home of PaulPowell, the 31st and 32ndIllinois secretary of state.Served in state governmentbeginning in 1934; died inoffice.

Public Regional History NA Saturdays andSundays 2 to 4 p.m.

Paul Powell was one of thekey sponsors forMcCormick Place inChicago. He helped HarryTruman win Illinois in1948 and John F. Kennedyin 1960.

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Cobden Museum Union County,Cobden

Museum opened in 1961with an emphasis onIndian artifacts in theSouthern Illinois area, butnow it also has Civil Waritems, a pump organ, andAnna Kirkpatrick pottery.

Private Native Americans;Regional History; War

Other Native Americansites

Closed in winter;reopens each April;can call owners forhours.

Indian artifacts includeprojectile points, tools,pottery, weapons, huntingtools and jewelry. Believedto be one of the largestpublic displays of Indianartifacts in southernIllinois.

Lincoln-DouglassDebate Marker

Union County,Jonesboro,

Large piece of stone with abrass plate describing thehistoric debate marks thesite of the 1858 debate.

Public Civil War; AmericanHistory

Other Civil War sites Site and LincolnMemorial PicnicArea open everyday from 8 a.m. to10 p.m.

NA

Williamson CountyMuseum


Museum occupies the oldWilliamson County Jail,built in 1913.

Public Regional History NA Closed December 1through April 1;open April-December onThursdays from 9a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sixteen sheriffs andfamilies lived in thisbuilding while inmateswere incarcerated in back.Now it houses informationabout Williamson County.

Davie IntermediateGrade School

Union County,Anna

School building 100 yearsold. Donated by Davie,who asked that town benamed after his wife,Anna.

Public Architecture Other schools Visitor services notestablished yet

Building has always beenused as a school; what thetown will do with it isunknown.

Old Railroad Bridge Alexander County,Thebes

Old bridge made ofdouble- racked steelChannel span is 671 feetlong.

Public? Railroads; Architecture NA Not yet determined Bridge designed by RalphMojeski, son of famousopera singer, crossesMississippi River to ScottCity, MO. Tested on May25, 1905.

Garden of the Gods Gallatin County,Elizabethtown

Collection of wind- andwater-eroded limestoneand sandstone cliffs. Theland, once flat, has liftedup thousands of feet overhundreds of centuries.

Public People versus Nature NA NA NA

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Fort Jefferson Ballard County,near mouth of OhioRiver

Founded in 1780 byGeorge Rogers Clark, thissite is marked.

Private Native Americanissues

Ballard county also hasNative AmericanMounds, but it isunknown if they arerelated.

Unknown Fort Jefferson was be-sieged by the Choctaws,Cherokees, and Chicka-saws in 1781. Most of theinhabitants died fromstarvation.

Dr. David AmossHouse

Caldwell County,Cobb

House of founder of theNight Riders.

Caldwell CountyHistoricalSociety

Labor and Class,Tobacco-centeredexperience

Princeton was the heart ofthe movement. All theNight Rider sites arerelated.

The historicalsociety hopes toform a Night Riderstour, opening thehouse to the public.

Amoss did not growTobacco, but was inter-ested in the military aspectsof the movement. He wasnever convicted of anycrime.

1923 TobaccoWarehouse

Caldwell County,Princeton

Tobacco warehouse builtduring the last reorgani-zation of the PlantersProtective Association in1923.

Private Labor and Class;tobacco-relatedexperience

Mary Lou HollowellFarm and House; OtherNight Riders-related sites

Should be on NightRiders tour

Seminary and Cave. Noother tobacco warehousesfrom this period stand inCaldwell County, as theywere burned by the NightRiders.

Mary Lou HollowellFarm and House

Caldwell County,Princeton

Home of woman who“Brought the Night Ridersto their knees.”

Private, butHistoricalSociety hopes tobuy it.

Labor and Class;tobacco-relatedexperience

1923 TobaccoWarehouse; other NightRiders-related sites

Will be on NightRiders tour

Hollowell was the victimof Night Rider violence in1907. She filed the lawsuitthat eventually led to theNight Riders’ decline.

Trail of Tears site Caldwell County,Princeton

Park with gravesites ofNative Americans.

Unknown Native AmericanIssues

Trail of Tears Open to public NA

WPA Folk Art andHouse

Caldwell County,near Princeton

Large concrete sculpturescreated for the WPA byJohn Vinson in the 1920s;includes large concretebaskets with glass chips.


Unknown Not restricted NA

Nathan Stubblefieldgravesite

Calloway County,Murray

Gravesite of uncreditedinventor of the radio.

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues

Stubblefield birthplace Not restricted Local legend and somebooks hold that Stubble-field invented the radio, butneglected to get a patent.He demonstrated theinvention at a towngathering in the early 20thcentury.

Nathan StubblefieldBirthplace


House where inventor wasborn.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: family

Stubblefield gravesite Unknown NA

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Rudy’s Restauranton the Square.

Calloway County.Town Square,Murray

Has served downtownmerchants for 61 years.


Unknown Open 5 a.m. to 2p.m. Mondaythrough Thursday,5 a.m. to 7 p.m.Fridays

Serves the lunch crowd, butstays open late on Fridaysto serve fish. Not in samefamily for duration.

Statue of Robert E.Lee


Statue of Gen. Lee Public Civil War Unknown NA Local legend says that thestatue faces north because,“You never turn your backon the enemy.”

Fort Heiman andFort Henry

Calloway County,on Tennessee River

Lookout camps duringCivil War for Confederacyon opposite sides of river

Private Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown Owner claims to knowlocation of tree used bylookouts to peer down intothe river valley.

Tobacco Barn Artby RandyThurmond

Calloway County Tobacco Barn murals Private Expressing CulturalValues: art

Unknown Unknown Recent Art done by aCalloway County resident.

Wallace Drug Store Calloway County,Murray

Reputed to be oldestcontinuously operatingpharmacy in Kentucky

Private Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

Unknown Open to public None

Native AmericanCamp

Calloway County,Baccusburg

Site where tipis were setup and laundry was done.

Private Native AmericanIssues

Unknown Owner is willing totalk to visitors

None

Ellis PopcornCompany


1950s era popcorndistributor


Unknown Open for tours Murray was the popcorndistribution capitol of thecountry in the 1950s and1960s; this is the onlyremaining company.

Hopkinsville Christian County,Hopkinsville

Town is location offestival

NA NA NA NA None

Audubon Mill Park Henderson County,Henderson

Park which was site ofJohn James Audubon’sGrist Mill

State People versus Nature Unknown Open to public Audubon ran the mill whenhe lived in Kentucky.

DowntownHenderson

Henderson County,Henderson

NA Mixed Expressing CulturalValues: music,festivals

Unknown Open to public The tie to W. C. Handy isunknown, but bluegrassmusic is indigenous to thispart of the country.

Ellis Park HorseRacing

Henderson County.US 41

1922 horse racing trackopen from July throughOctober.

Private Recreation Unknown $2 admission July2-Oct.2 and lateDecember, T-F at 3p.m., Sat & Sun at1 p.m.

None

Marvin CollegeDormitory

Hickman County 3-story dormitory Private Education Barkley’s home Angles,Barkley gravesite

Unknown Dormitory of former V.P.Alben Barkley when heattended Marvin College.

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Columbus BelmontPark

Hickman County Civil War Camp. CCCshelters remain on the sitefrom the time of the GreatDepression.

Public Civil War; CulturalDiversity

Other Civil War sites Open to public None

Cave-in-Rock Ferry Crittendon County,Marion

Ferry where 19th centuryriver pirates robbedflatboats. Associated witha state park in Illinois.

Public Working People Unknown Free None

Crittendon CountyMuseum

Crittendon County,Marion

Museum is in a log cabin;features military uniformsand 200-year-old loom.

Public VernacularArchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues

Unknown Free; open May-October Tues.,Thurs., and Sat. 10a.m. - 4 p.m.

None

Ollie James House Crittendon County,Marion

House of senator involvedwith Night Riders.

Private Developing theAmerican Economy

Night Riders sites; OllieJames gravesite

Unknown None

Ollie Jamesgravesite

Crittendon County,Marion

Gravesite Unknown Developing theAmerican Economy

Ollie James house; othertobacco-related sites

Unknown In Mapleview Cemetery,grave of Kentucky Senatorwho was involved withNight Riders.

Casey JonesBirthplace

Fulton County,Cayce

Birthplace of legendaryrail character celebrated infolk music

Private Vernaculararchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues: music

Site across street No visitor services Birthplace of legendary railcharacter celebrated in folksongs.

NamelessConfederate SoldierMonument

Hopkins County,Madisonville

Erected to commemorateburning of old courthouse.

Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Free to be viewedby public

On Hopkins County court-house lawn. Statue com-memorates burning of oldcourthouse by Confed-eracy.

Madisonville three-day festival


Includes Dolly Madisontea, symposium onMadison, dinner theater,wine tasting, 5K run,religious liberty luncheon.

NA Festivals Unknown NA None

Battle of BrowningSprings


Civil War battlefield Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown On campus of Madison-ville Junior High School.

Ruby Laffoon Cabin Hopkins County,Madisonville

A Kentucky governor’sbirthplace restored fromoriginal logs

Hopkins CountyHistoricalSociety

General history Unknown Admission $1; open1-5 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday.

NA

Eddyville StatePenitentiary

Lyon County,Eddyville

Castlelike structure builtin 1886

State ofKentucky

Cultural Diversity Unknown Unknown This structure near theCumberland River isknown as the “Castle onthe Cumberland.”

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Benton springevents: Tater Dayand Shape NoteFestival

Marshall County.Benton

Tater Day has been annualevent since 1840s; ShapeNote Festival since 1854.

None Festivals Unknown Tater Day, firstMonday in April;Shape NoteFestival, fourthSunday in May.

The Shape Note Festivalhas been featured in theNew York Times, andshape note singers sang atthe White House in 1973.

VMV of Paducah McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Locomotive manufac-turing business from mid-1800s is still in operationin same building.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople

Unknown Unknown None

Coke Building McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Art Deco building frommid-1920s.

Coca Cola Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople; Vernaculararchitecture

Unknown Unknown Coca Cola outgrew build-ing (bottling plant) longago but still uses it as awarehouse. The coke signin front stays lighted virtu-ally all the time.

Paducah JuniorCollege/BroadwayMethodist Church

McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Paducah Junior College inold church building; partsof old building stillvisible.

Private Education, Spirituality Unknown Open to public None

Irwin Cobb Hotel McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Posh hotel from Paducah’sheyday.

Private Recreation;Developing theAmerican Economy

Unknown Hotel Centerpiece of Paducah’sdowntown renovation.

Columbia Theatre McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Theater with entranceremaining fromsegregation era

Private Recreation; CulturalDiversity

Unknown Shows still offeredin theater.

Sign over separate doorsays “Second Balconyentrance.”

The FederalBuilding


Building boasts muraldepicting town’s history.

Public Cultural Diversity;Working People;VernacularArchitecture


The Market House McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Marketplace 125 years old Public Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy; CulturalDiversity: drama

Unknown Houses museumexhibits anddramaticproductions

None

Paducah MarineWays


Barge manufacturerfounded in 1854 and stillin operation

Private Building the AmericanEconomy

Unknown Unknown The oldest Paducahindustry still in operation.

Floodwall McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Built following floodingof Mississippi River in1937

Public People versus Nature Unknown Can be seen bypublic.

None

Paducah City Hall McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Building designed byworld-famous architectDurrell Stone

Public Architecture Unknown Visitors welcome This building designed byDurrell Stone is a near-replica of the U.S. Embas-sy in New Delhi, India.

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The LloydTilghman House


Home of railroad magnateand Civil War Hero 1852-1861

Unknown Civil War; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy


Museum of theAmerican Quilters’Society


Museum with display of200 quilts

AmericanQuilters’Association

Vernacular Creativity Unknown Open to public None

Fort Anderson McCrackenCounty, Paducah

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

Irwin S. CobbGravesite


Gravesite of famouspolitician

Unknown History Irwin Cobb Hotel Open to public In Oak Grove cemetery onPark Avenue

Chief Paduke Statue McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Statue of Paducah’snamesake

Public Native Americanissues

Unknown Statue stands inmedian of road, notfeasible to “visit.”

Statue by sculptor LoradoTaft stands on JeffersonStreet.

Alben Barkleygravesite


Grave of former VicePresident Alben Barkley

Unknown History Angles, Marvin College Open to public Grave is in Mount KentonCemetery on Lone Oak Rd.

Angles McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Alben Barkley’s home1937-1956

Unknown History Marvin College, AlbenBarkley gravesite

Open to public None

Historic OldtownRestaurant


Restaurant that has beenopen since 1847.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: food

Unknown Still serving food Purported to be the firstbrothel in Paducah, as wellas the first speakeasy.

John T. Scopesgravesite


Grave of defendant ingroundbreaking evolutioncase

Unknown Spirituality; Education Unknown Open to public Grave is in Oak GroveCemetery on Park Avenue.

Old Lincoln HighSchool


Old high school for blackstudents

Public Cultural Diversity:race issues

Unknown No visitor services Building’s auditoriumpotentially could be usedfor conferences, etc.

Everly BrothersMonument

MuhlenbergCounty, CentralCity

Monument in front of cityhall

Everly BrothersFoundation

Expressing CulturalValues: music

Unknown Open to public.Potential for musictour in MuhlenbergCounty

None

TVA Plant MuhlenbergCounty, Paradise

Large power plant onGreen River built by TVA

TVA Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople; Transformingthe Environment

Unknown Open for tours None

Peabody Mines MuhlenbergCounty, Paradise

Mines in reclaimed land Private Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople; ExtractingResources

Unknown Unknown Immortalized in John Prinesong, “Paradise”: “Daddywon’t you take me down toMuhlenberg County/ downby the Green River/ whereParadise lays./ I’m sorrymy son/ but you’re too latein asking/ Mr. Peabody’sCoal train done hauled itaway.”

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Rice TobaccoFactory


Tobacco factory fromearly part of 20th century

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople; tobacco-related experience

R. T. Martin TobaccoCompany

Unknown Tobacco factories are rare.

R. T. Martintobacco Factory

MuhlenbergCounty. CentralCity

Tobacco factory fromearly part of 20th Century


Rice Tobacco Company Unknown Tobacco factories are rare.

Ephraigm McCleanBrank Burial Site


Gravesite of War of 1812veteran

Private History Unknown Open to public Brank is considered to havebeen a main force inAmerican Victory in Battleof New Orleans.

Gen. Simon BolivarBirthplace


Birthplace of Civil Wargeneral. 1830s log cabinout in country, off mainroad.

Private Civil War Other Civil War sites No visitor services Part of adjoining furnacestill remains but has beendynamited.

Mose Rager Houseand Monument

MuhlenbergCounty,Drakesboro

Home of guitarist whotaught Merle Travis howto play


Potential to be on musictour of MuhlenbergCounty

No visitor services None

Merle Travisgravesite

MuhlenbergCounty, Ebenezer

Large monument markinggrave of guitar legendMerle Travis.


Potential to be on musictour of MuhlenbergCounty

No visitor services Cemetery is off highway176, 10 miles outsideCentral City.

Jesse Oats gravesite MuhlenbergCounty, CentralCity

Gravesite ofRevolutionary War HeroJesse Oats

Private History Unknown Open to public None

James ClarkMcReynoldsGravesite

Todd County,Elkton

Gravesite of SupremeCourt justice


McReynolds House; Riceand R. T. Martin TobaccoCompanies

Open to public None

James ClarkMcReynolds House

Todd County,Elkton

Two-story frame house ofSupreme Court justice


McReynolds Gravesite;Rice and R. T. MartinTobacco Companies

Unknown The justice was influentialin declaring tobacco trust,which led to Black PatchTobacco wars being foundunconstitutional.

Robert Penn Warrenbirthplace

Todd County,Guthrie

One-story brick house Private VernacularArchitecture

Unknown Open to public Birthplace of Pulitzerprize- winning author.

Downtown Guthrie Todd County,Guthrie

Was host to massiveassociation rally of25,000-30,000 people inearly 20th century

Various Tobacco-relatedexperience

Night Riders-related sites Unknown None

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Allensville Festival Todd County,Allensville

Festival started by freedslaves lasts a full week,ending on August 8.Includes baseball game,barbecue, etc.

None Cultural Diversity:race issues


Jefferson DavisMonument

Todd County,Fairview

Obelisk 351 feet highmarks Confederatepresident’s gravesite

Daughters of theConfederacy

Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public,elevator to top

None

Ben BristowBirthplace

Todd County,Elkton

Gates of birthplace Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites No visitor services None

Fort Smith Livingston County,Smithland

Union Civil War fort onCemetery Hill inSmithland

Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Potential formuseum to housefinds ofarcheological dig.

Fort was used as a trainingground for Union troops.The townspeople, althoughsiding with the Confed-eracy, did not protest, inorder to save their townfrom destruction.

Smithland FirstBaptist Church

Livingston County,Smithland

Church that survived thefloods of 1913 and 1937.

Private Spirituality; Peopleversus Nature


The Old Bank Livingston County,Smithland

Church built in 1907 Private Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues: movies

Unknown Unknown Used as Bank of Albany,New York, in filming ofHow the West was Won.

The Smith Mansion Livingston County,Smithland

10,000-square-foot homethat is a replica ofSouthfork, the Dallasestate.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: television

Unknown Has been opened tolocal people in thepast

Built in place of arenovated home ca. 1940.

The Buzzard’sRoost


Gazebo Built in place ofCottonwood Tree to offershelter to local gatherings.

Unknown VernacularArchitecture

Unknown Open to the public This gathering place hasbeen featured in the Balti-more Sun as a site of localcolor. Men gather to tellstories and play checkers;there is a guest register.The Gazebo was namedafter a railroad that ranalong the river in the late1800s.

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Brimstone Corner Livingston County,Smithland

Saloon, site of a popularlocal legend

Unknown History; CulturalDiversity

Unknown Unknown Legend says that patrons ofthe saloon were druggedand killed, then slidthrough a trap door to thedoctor next door, whoperformed experiments andhad the bodies buried onCumberland Island by aslave.

Bell Tavern Livingston County,Smithland

Inn built in 1815 Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature;History; MississippiRiver

Unknown Open to public Charles Dickens, ClaraBarton, John James Audu-bon, Aaron Burr, HenryClay, and Lew Wallacevisited here. Purportedlywas the model for the innin Great Expectations.

Statue of HenryClay


Statue carved from treeunder which Henry Clayheld court

Private Expressing CulturalValues; History

Unknown Open to public Statue carved from “JudgeElm,” tree where hangingswere carried out in 19thcentury. Carved by Ken-neth Cruse of Mexico, KY.

Massey House Livingston County,Smithland

Oldest residence inSmithland

Private History; CulturalDiversity: race issues

Civil War sites Unknown Legend says this house,which contains a trap doorin a closet leading to atunnel, was part of theUnderground Railroad.

Dallum-Bush House Livingston County,Smithland

1839 house Private Civil War; Slavery;Cultural Diversity:race issues

Civil War sites Unknown Slaves were housed in backpart of house. First Living-ston County Court Clerk’soffice was here. DuringCivil War, was known as“Blount Hodge’s CountryClub,” because of partiesheld there.

Old MethodistChurch


1848 church Private Spirituality; Peopleversus Nature;Slavery; Race Issues,Man against Nature,Spirituality

Unknown Unknown Originally had balcony forslaves. Destroyed by forcein 1880s; rebuilt usingformer walls and founda-tion. Survived 1937 flood,which came to buildingroof.

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Davis House/RuddHouse


1840 house Private VernacularArchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues: family

Unknown Unknown House once occupied bydevout baseball fan KatieDavis Love, who becamereclusive during baseballseason and had groceriessent to her room in a basketon a string. House has a“safe room” upstairs withonly entrance a staircasefrom parents’ room.

Pippin Cabin Livingston County,Smithland

1843 log cabin within aframe house, restored

Unknown VernacularArchitecture

Unknown Visitor Center forSmithland

Legend says cabin wasonce used for gambling anda man was killed over acraps dispute.

Lucy JeffersonLewis gravesite


Gravesite of ThomasJefferson’s sister.

Public History Unknown Unknown Legend around family wasthe subject of a RobertPenn Warren book.

Coil House Hopkins County,Madisonville

1835 two-story Federalhouse

Private Expressing CulturalValues: family

Old ship was owned byMatthew Lyon’s brother.

Unknown Oldest home in Madison-ville. It is owned by son ofChittendon Lyon, forwhom Lyon county wasnamed.

Smith Dulin House Hopkins County,Madisonville

1904 two-story house Private VernacularArchitecture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

Unknown Unknown Built by owner of a localdepartment store. Used fora WPA project from 1938to 1941.

East BroadwaySchool


1884 School building,now a private residence.

Private Education Unknown Unknown Housed MadisonvilleNormal School from 1884to 1907, then became EastBroadway School. Closedin 1925; restored in 1975.

Hockersmith House Hopkins County,Madisonville

1881 French Mansardstyle house

Private Architecture; CivilWar

Other Civil War sites; L.D. Hockersmith gravesite

Unknown Capt. L. D. Hockersmith,who built the house, helpedplan escape of John HuntMorgan from penitentiaryin Columbus, Ohio. Frenchmansard style is rare in thispart of the country.

Captain L. D.Hockersmithgravesite

Hopkins County,West Madisonville

1913 gravesite of CSAcaptain

Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites;Hockersmith House

Open to public Grave of CSA captain whoescaped from penitentiaryin Columbus, Ohio.

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Old Ship. Hopkins County,Madisonville

1857 home of ChittendenLyon, son of ChittendenLyon, for whom LyonCounty was named.

Private VernacularArchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues: family

Home of Matthew Lyon,Chittenden’s brother, isalso on the survey.

Unknown None

Ruby House Hopkins County,Madisonville

Mid-1800s house Private VernacularArchitecture

Unknown Unknown Built for its owner by alumber company, this wasthe first home in Madison-ville to have electricity.

Hammack House Hopkins County,Madisonville

1890 Victorian house Private VernacularArchitecture; CulturalDiversity; Building theAmerican Economy

Unknown Unknown Used as a boarding housein 19-teens; later rented byCongressman DavidKincheloe, who had been afederal judge.

Morton House Hopkins County,Madisonville

1857 log cabin made intoa neo-classical house

Private Expressing CulturalValues: Family; Ver-nacular Architecture;Civil War; Spirituality

Unknown Unknown Sold in 1979 after beingowned by same family forover 100 years. Leisure useby Civil War soldiers.

Weathers House Todd County,Elkton

Built in 1882 Private Building the AmericanEconomy

Unknown Unknown Named for owner ofWeathers drug store, early1900s, which still stands intown. Also served asboardinghouse.

Stagecoach Inn Todd County, TinyTown

1833 inn Private Cultural Diversity;Civil War; ExpressingCultural Diversity:music

Unknown Unknown Served stagecoach line inearly 1800s. Local legendsays building was used as aConfederate hospitalduring Civil War. Possiblybirthplace of Africanblackface minstrel.

Bethel BaptistChurch

Todd County,Fairview

Site for this church was agift from Jefferson Davis

Private Spirituality; Civil War Jefferson Davismonument, also inFairview

Unknown None

Garth House Todd County,Trenton

1880s Victorian housewith brick facaderemaining, which is ararity.

Private Civil War; ExpressingCultural Values

Unknown Unknown Built by Civil War veteranDudley Garth. Cemeterybehind house, not adjacent.Windows are low to groundbecause funerals were heldhere and caskets were slidin and out of windows.

Trigg County LogCabin Museum,Boots Randolphhome

Trigg County,Cadiz

1867 log cabin moved tocenter of town

Chamber ofCommerce

VernacularArchitecture; History;Expressing CulturalValues: music

Unknown Open to public Home of saxophonist BootsRandolph

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Kelsey Calhoun,Main StreetMoonshiner

Trigg County,Cadiz

For TVA, demonstratesoperation of miniaturemoonshine still mountedon plywood. Also prooftester.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; CulturalDiversity

Unknown Open to givingdemonstration forPark Service.

None

Barlow HouseMuseum

Ballard County,near Paducah

Museum in turn-of-the-century Victorian house

Unknown Architecture; GeneralHistory

Unknown $2 admission; openFridays, Sundays,and Mondays 1-4p.m.

200 years of memorabiliaof town’s founding family

Wickliffe MoundsResearch Center

Ballard County,Wickliffe

Museum on site of Indianmounds from 1000-1350

Unknown Native Americanissues

Unknown $3.50 admission;open Mar.-Nov. 9-4:30; accessible fordisabled

Features two largerectangular platformmounds used inceremonies.

R. N. HensonBroom-maker’sMuseum

Fulton County,Cayce

Contains largest privatecollection of broom-making equipment incountry.


Unknown Can see byappointment. Notaccessible forpersons withdisabilities.

Home of original leatherKentucky cabin broom.

Warren ThomasMuseum

Fulton County,Hickman

Antebellum black churchhousing local African-American history items

Unknown Cultural Diversity Unknown By appointment None

Hardin SouthernRailroad NostalgiaTrain

Marshall County,Hardin

Trip on 100-year-old railline; 18 miles, 2 hours

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy; Recreation

Unknown Fee $10, May 27-Oct 29, Sats. andSuns. 1 p.m. and3:30 p.m.

None

Don F PrattMuseum

Christian County,Hopkinsville

Museum of 101stAirborne division, the“Screaming Eagles”

U.S. government Aviation Unknown Admission free;open daily 9:30-4:30

Features helicopters, otheraircraft

Kentucky Opry Marshall County Music show featuringcountry, bluegrass, andgospel

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: music

Unknown 8 p.m. Fris. andSats. year- round,$8.50

None

John JamesAudubon State Park

Henderson County,Henderson

Museum featuringcollection of famednaturalist

State Natural Environment Unknown Fee $4; open 10-5daily; closedThanksgiving;access for peoplewith disabilities

None

Pennyroyal AreaMuseum

Christian County.Hopkinsville

Museum contains NightRiders artifacts, NativeAmerican art; JeffersonDavis possessions.

Unknown Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: art; Civil War;tobacco-relatedexperience

Trail of Tearscommemorative site;Night Riders; Civil Warsites

Fee $2 ; open M-F8:30-4:30, Sat. 10-3

None

Broadbent’sCountry HamFestival

Trigg County,Cadiz

Ham festival N/A Expressing CulturalValues: food

Unknown Visitors welcome Boasts “World’s largest”country ham and biscuitfestival

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Henry CorneliusBurnett Gravesite

Trigg County,Cadiz KY

Gravesite Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public;could be part ofCivil War gravesitetour

Grave of U.S. representa-tive from Kentucky andsenator in ConfederateCongress. East endcemetery.

Union CountyHistorical Societyand Museum

Union County,Morganfield

Museum with localartifacts and NativeAmerican art

Union CountyHistoricalSociety

Expressing CulturalValues: art; NativeAmerican issues

Trail of TearsCommemorative site

Unknown None

Courthouse Lawn Union County,Morganfield

Site of Abraham Lincoln’sonly political speech givenin native state.

City History Similar to Judge Elm inSmithland

Open to public None

Camp Breckinridge Union County U.S. Army base U.S. government Military History;Cultural Diversity;Recreation

Unknown Unknown Base housed largest POWcamp in U.S. during WorldWar II. This location isalso where Jackie Robin-son began his baseballcareer in 1944.

Cale Young RiceHouse

Webster County,Dixon

Home of local poet andhis philanthropist wife,Leban Lace Rice

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: literature;Cultural Diversity

Unknown Open to public Rice wrote a number ofpoems, including, “Bridg-ing the Years,” “ThePassionate Follies,” “Mrs.Wiggs of the CabbagePatch.”

Battle of Burt Mill Webster County,Vanderburg

Site of first Civil WarBattle in Kentucky

Unknown Civil War Other Civil War sites Unknown None

MaplewoodCemetery:WooldridgeMonuments

Graves County,Mayfield

Statues of members of theHenry Wooldridge familycarved in Italian marbleand sandstone

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: family,vernacular art

Maplewood Cemetery Open to public;walking tour ofcemetery

Much folklore and legendsurround the history of thismonument, “the strangeprocession that nevermoves.”

MaplewoodCemetery: CivilWar Execution


Slab describes death ofHenry B. Hicks in 1864--executed in Mayfield byUnion Army

Unknown Civil War Maplewood Cemetery Open to public;walking tour ofcemetery

None

MaplewoodCemetery: LoisRoach gravesite


Gravesite of first femalesheriff in Kentucky,maybe first in America

Unknown Cultural Diversitygender issues;Working People

Maplewood Cemetery Open to public;walking tour ofcemetery

None

MaplewoodCemetery: MassBurial


Eleven people in onefamily killed in a 1921house fire were buriedtogether.

Unknown Tragedy Maplewood Cemetery Open to public;walking tour ofcemetery

None

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MaplewoodCemetery: Col.Edward Crossland


Gravesite Unknown Civil War; History Maplewood Cemetery Open to public;walking tour ofcemetery

Edward Crossland was acolonel in the Confederacyand later a member of U.S.House of Representatives.

Starnes Barbecue McCrackenCounty, Paducah

Barbecue place 40 yearsold


Unknown Restaurant, busy atlunch

Situated around a counter;serves pork, ham, and beefBBQ on toast, hot barbe-cue sauce.

Homeplace 1850 Lyon County,southern end ofLBL

Living history farm with16 original log structures

Unknown Tobacco-relatedexperience

Night Riders sites Open to public Living history demonstra-tions of tobacco firing,plowing, and buttermaking.

Hopkinsville FirstPresbyterian Church


1849 church Private Spirituality, Civil War Civil War Hopkinsvillewalking tour

Church was used as ahospital during Civil War.

Carnegie Library Christian County,Hopkinsville

1913 Library designed bylocal architect

Unknown Education, VernacularArchitecture

Unknown Hopkinsvillewalking tour

None

Latham Cottages Christian County,Hopkinsville.

Cottages Unknown Cultural Diversity;Building the AmericanEconomy


First rental property in city,also first with runningwater, gas heat, and light-ing.

L & N Depot Christian County,Hopkinsville

Train station servedHopkinsville 1892-1971.

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads


None

Dayton Building Christian County,Hopkinsville

1905 building Unknown Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues


Building was used forseveral readings by well-known clairvoyant EdgarCayce.

Alhambra Theatre Christian County,Hopkinsville

First Building inHopkinsviille with airconditioning

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy:technologicaladvances


None

Ferrell’s SnappyService


Fast-food restaurantopened in 1936



“Burger joint” still servesburgers today and is a towninstitution.

Pioneer Cemetery Christian County,Hopkinsville.

Cemetery. Last burial in1873.

Unknown Peopling Places;Cultural Diversity


Contains statue of to townfounder, BartholomewWood, and 222 graves ofsettlers, including twoRevolutionary Warsoldiers.

Major LeagueTraining CampField

Hopkins County,Dawson Springs

Location where PittsburghPirates played springtraining in 1910s

Private, buttrying to berestored

Expressing CulturalValues: sports,recreation

Unknown Hopes to be open topublic

None

Henry BennettGravesite

Livingston County,Dycusburg

Inscription on tombstonereads “Killed by theNightriders.”

Unknown Tobacco-relatedexperience

Night Riders sites Open to public Bennett was beaten but notkilled by the Night Ridersterrorist group.

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National ScoutingMuseum


Interactive museum tellingstory of Boy Scouts.

Unknown Cultural Diversity;Education; ExpressingCultural Values: art

Unknown Admission, $5;open Marchthrough November

State-of-the-art museumcontains a collection ofNorman Rockwell art.

McClean CountyCivil War Days

McLean County Annual event, thirdweekend in May

N/A Civil War Civil War sites Open to public Each year the 1861 Battleof Sacramento is re-created, wherein Gen.Nathan Bedford Forrestfirst used his famousflanking strategy.

Historic Green andRough Riveroverlook

McLean County,Livermore

Converted railroad bridgefirst used in 1871.

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Natural Environment

None Open to public Visitors can climb steps ofconverted railroad bridge tosee the confluence of theGreen and Rough Rivers.

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Saturn Bar Orleans Parish,New Orleans

Neighborhood bar, whichopened in 1947, is fes-tooned with folk art andbeautiful neon. A greatexample of vernacularcreativity; the pictures onthe walls are worthy of amuseum.

Private Peopling Places;Expressing CulturalValues: art

Outside the FrenchQuarter; no other sitesnearby or related

No assistanceneeded

A great neighborhoodinstitution with amazingfolk art. It should be ac-corded the same respect asother folkart environmentssuch as Finster’s ParadiseGardens.

Fats Domino’sHouse

Orleans Parish,New Orleans

Legendary musician’shome, with opulent/tackydecor

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music;VernacularArchitecture

None Merely a drive-byview is appropriate

Can drive by for a glimpseof his gaudy Cadillac andhome; do not disturb.

St. Roch Cemetery Orleans Parish,New Orleans

Inspired by a yellow feverepidemic, church andcemetery pay homage tothe patron saint of plaguesand pestilence. Many claimto have been cured at theshrine on the site; crutchesleft there are testaments totheir faith. Great cemeteryfor wandering.

Private Spirituality; Peopleversus Nature

Other New Orleanscemeteries

Open to public Should be preserved.

Faulkner HouseBooks

Orleans Parish,New Orleans

House where WilliamFaulkner lived whilewriting his first novel.Bookstore offers manyFaulkner rarities.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Rowan Oak in Oxford,MS

Easily enjoyedbookstore

Small, but building isevocative of Faulkner

Napoleon House Orleans Parish,New Orleans

Built in 1797 and intendedas a refuge for Frenchemperor Napoleon,crumbling bar/restaurantevokes New Orleans of old.

Private Architecture; History French Quarter Thriving business A beautiful dump.

Rock ‘n’ Bowl Orleans Parish,New Orleans

Bowling alley built in1941, home to live zydecoand New Orleans musicWednesday throughSaturday nights


Has no peers Large dance floorbut only 18bowling lanes

Bowling and great musicare concurrent. This isNew Orleans far from thetourist crush.

Cormier’s CockPit

Acadia Parish,Cankton

Barnlike structure thatoffers an old-fashionedcockfight most Saturdaynights. Most easilyaccessible pit in area.

Private Recreation: gambling;Cruelty to Animals

None Very accessible;open Novemberthrough July.

Although some people findthis activity objectionable,it is legal in Louisiana.

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Jim BowieMuseum

St. Landry Parish,Opelousas

House belonging to a blackwoman, contains Bowieknives and relics

Public History; ExpressingCultural Values

None Easily accessed Strange location, butcompelling little museum.

Slim’s Y-Ki-KiZydeco Club

St. Landry Parish,Opelousas

Large, welcoming zydecoclub opened in 1947

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(zydeco); CulturalDiversity

Nearby Opelousas sites,including Richard’s Club

Very friendly Less rustic than Richard’s,but equally large andwelcoming.

Richard’s ClubZydeco Club

St. Landry Parish,Lawtell

Tattered wood framebuilding offering live localand national acts


Slim’s in Opelousas Open mostweekends; large bar

Building seems in dangerof falling down when bandstarts to really rock.

Borgue’s CajunDance Hall

St. Landry Parish,Lewisburg

Country Cajun dance hallwith music every Saturday

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(Cajun); CulturalDiversity

Slim’s and Richard’s Far off the beatenpath

Very hard to find.

Liberty Theatre Acadia Parish,Eunice

Beautiful old theater nowhouses the “Cajun GrandOle Opry” each Saturdaynight.

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: music(Cajun); CulturalDiversity

Not far from Fred’s inMamou

800-seat auditoriumin downtownEunice

Must-see auditorium.Good introduction toCajun music culture fortourists unable or unwil-ling to go to the clubs.

Eunice Museum Acadia Parish,Eunice

Housed in old train depot,museum depicts localmusic, Mardi Gras, andother histories

Public Peopling places;Expressing CulturalValues: music;Cultural Diversity

Liberty Theatre Well set up fortourists

Excellent small-townmuseum. Heavy emphasison tourist-pleasing dis-plays.

Dup’s Lounge Acadia Parish,Eunice

Local dive featuring liveCajun music

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(Cajun); CulturalDiversity; Community

See Fred’s in nearbyMamou

Live music onSaturday morningsfrom 9 a.m. till[time not in orig.]Small buthospitable to guests

Old line local dance hall

Fred’s Lounge Evangeline Parish,Mamou

Windowless bar known forlive Cajun music radiobroadcast on Saturdaymornings.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(Cajun); Community

See Dup’s Small butaccustomed totourists. Open onlyon Saturdays from9 a.m. till noon.

An amazing place toexperience Cajun joie devivre.

Estherwood RiceMill

Jefferson DavisParish, Elton

One of a few riceprocessors that allow tours.Also of note are old-fashioned cotton rice bags.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: agriculture

None Not set up tohandle crowds, butwill accommodatevisitors. Open onlysummer andautumn.

Offers a good look a theancient milling process.

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Oil and Gas Park Jefferson DavisParish, Jennings

Replica of state’s first oilwell

Public Resource Extraction;Building the AmericanEconomy: oil and gas

None Merely a view ofthe well is suffi-cient, but interpre-tation would bewelcome.

A museum dedicated toLouisiana oil culturewould be welcome.

BrimstoneMuseum

Calcasieu Parish,Sulphur

Museum commemoratesdevelopment of Fraschprocess for mining sulfurand the way the town ofSulphur developed

Public Resource Extraction;Building the AmericanEconomy: chemicalindustry

None Minor attraction iswell set up forvisitors

Great small-town museum.

Garyville Timbermill Museum

St. John the BaptistParish, Garyville

Museum depicting birthand death of a companytown. Most of museumconsists of exhibits ontimber industry.

Private Resource Extraction;Peopling Places;Building the AmericanEconomy: timberindustry

River Road tour Minimal resourceshamper efforts.

Could be expanded.

Center forTraditional BoatBuilding

Lafourche Parish,Thibodaux

Small exhibit devoted toearly and traditional boatbuilding; visitors also cansee boat repairs and recon-structions. Emphasis onlocal styles.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy: rivercommerce; Transpor-tation; Recreation

Although facility iswell-maintained,interpretation couldbe expanded. Stafftoo busy withresearch to accom-modate many visi-tors.

None

Bonnet CareSpillway -Roadway

St. Charles Parish,River Road north ofI-310

Good look at massivefloodgate and levee systemas an engineering miracle.

Public People versus Nature;Managing NaturalResources

River Road tour Drive-throughobservation oflevee system. Partof the story ofcontrol of river, butdifficult to convey.

Visitors must know whatto look for or site ismeaningless.

El Sido’s DanceHall

Lafayette Parish,Lafayette

Large zydeco club withmusic nearly every week-end; features national actsas well as local talent.


Other zydeco halls, suchas Slim’s and Richard’s

Very welcoming,no need to change abit, but caution isadvised in thisneighborhood.

Everybody dances.Nobody claps. Sur-rounding neighborhood isquestionable.

Bonfire Museum St. James Parish,River Road, northof Route 20.

Museum dedicated toculture of St. James parish,with emphasis on lumberindustry and tradition ofChristmas bonfires alonglevee

Public Spirituality; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy: lumberindustry, agriculture;Expressing CulturalValues: traditionalcelebrations

River Road tour Quaint, informativemuseum

Could be expanded.

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Festival of theBonfires

St. James Parish,River Road,between Gramercyand Donaldsonville

Festival each year theweekend before wintersolstice; tradition of morethan 200 years of lightinghuge bonfires on levee.Recent themes havereflected Cajun and popularculture.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: traditionalcelebrations; CulturalDiversity

River Road tour Awe-inspiringpyres of flames.

A must see. More publicityis needed.

First AcadianSettlement onMississippi River

St. James Parish,near Vacherie

Roadside Marker Unknown Peopling Places;Cultural Diversity;River Transport

River Road tour; possiblyties in with other Cajunsites

Marker suffices. Interesting juxtapositionbecause marker is acrossstreet from national stra-tegic petroleum facility.

Lafourche ParishCourthouse

Lafourche Parish,Thibodaux

One of few antebellumcourthouses

Public Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues; Community

None NA Could be incorporated aspart of a walking tour ofentire town of Thibodaux.

Reserve-EdgardFerry

St. John the BaptistParish, River Road

Archaic ferry still inoperation

Public Building the AmericanEconomy: rivertransport

River Road tour Ferryaccommodatesautomobiles.

Unusual juxtaposition ofold and new, because visi-ors crossing river on ar-haic ferry can see a nuclearpower plant.

National Hansen’sDisease Center

Iberville Parish,River Road, northof Carville

Former leper colony,isolated for fear of alarmingnearby residents

Public Medical history;social ostracization

River Road tour Visitor services arein doubt.

Beautiful complex ofbuildings.

Barthel’s CountryStore

Ascension Parish,Sunshine

115-year old country store Private VernacularArchitecture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

River Road tour Good place to stopfor a cold drink

Quaint, little changed inrecent years.

Plaquemine LocksStateCommemorativeArea

Iberville ParishPlaquemine

Museum, park, and visitorcenter

Public River Transport;People versus Nature

See other locks and leveesystem

Excellent look athow river iscontrolled

Good point of departurefor tour of entire town ofPlaquemine.

Bourgeoise MeatMarket

Terrebonne Parish,Schriever

Traditional meat marketowned by three genera-tions of same family.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: food

Near Thibodaux Place to stop for asnack.

Offers example of tradi-tional butcher’s trade. Beefjerky a specialty.

Le Beau PetitMusee

Iberia Parish,Jeanrette

Museum dedicated to thehistory of the sugar caneindustry.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy: agriculture

Nearby sugar cane mills Well-documentedlook at sugar caneas a cash crop

Good video done byCenter for LouisianaStudies.

LouisianaUniversitiesMarineConsortium

Terrebonne Parish,Cocodrie

Marine Research facilitywith display and videooverview of wetlandswildlife.

Public Natural Resources:wetlands ecoculture,fish, wildlife

NA Off the beaten pathbut worth seekingout

Good video overview ofwetlands environment

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Wendell-WilliamsMemorialAviation Museum

St. Mary Parish,Patterson

Museum dedicated togrowth of air flight insouthern U.S. andLouisiana. Specialemphasis on speed trials.

Unknown Building the AmericanEconomy: aviation;Technology

None Video available Well operated small-townmuseum.

Sterling SugarMill

St. Mary Parish,Franklin

Old-style sugar mill Private Agriculture; ResourceExtraction; Workingpeople

Other mills Open to visitorsonly on Saturdaymornings

None

Konriko Rice MillTour and Store

Iberia Parish, NewIberia

One of oldest mills in thearea.

Private Agriculture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

Rice and cane mills Well set up forvisitors; admissioncharged, videoshown. Gift shopalso available.

Visitors will be coveredwith a cloud of rice dust.

Grave of WilliamGeary “Bunk”Johnson,

Iberia Parish, NewIberia

Grave of early jazz great,African-American trumpetplayer who may havetaught Louis Armstrong.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (jazz);African-Americanexperience

Music Heritage tour;Modern Music Center

A marker should beplaced here. Born1879 in NewOrleans to formerslaves.

Occasionally pilgrimsleave offerings at grave-site. Many legendaryperformers of the earlyjazz era were of Cajunorigin.

Clifton Chenier’sGrave

Iberia Parish,Loreauville

Grave of the “king” ofzydeco music


Clifton’s Club Grave may still beunmarked. Locatedparallel to Veretgrave.

There should be bettercommemoration.

Clifton’s Club Iberia Parish,Loreauville

Home club of late “king” ofzydeco music. Willaccommodate 700 people.


Chenier’s grave Infrequently open Very rural, very hard tofind

Glenwood SugarsFactory Tour

Assumption Parish,Napoleonville

Processor of unrefinedsugar. Plant tour available

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: sugar cane;Agriculture; WorkingPeople

Other mills for rice andcane

Can call for tour None

Abita SpringsPavilion

St. TammanyParish, AbitaSprings

Former resort site; two-tiered pavilion from heydayis visible.

Public Natural Resources;Recreation

Abita Springs Brewerynearby

Adjacent toNational HistoricDistrict

Uncertain whether springsare still operational.

Hamilton’sZydeco Hall


Large rural zydeco hall Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(zydeco); CulturalDiversity

El Sido’s Dance Hall;other zydeco-related sites

Large andaccommodating

None

Edwin EppsHouse

Avoyelles Parish,Bunkie

Home of Edwin Epps,planter who ownedSolomon Northrup, authorof Twelve Years A Slave.

Private Cultural Diversity;Slavery; ExpressingCultural Values:literature; Agriculture

NA House is wellrestored and readyfor visitors.

It is gratifying that North-rup is celebrated, as wellas plantation edifice.

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Bayou FolkMuseum

Rapides Parish,Cloutierville

Built 1813 by founder ofCloutierville; building washome to author KateChopin in 1850s

Unknown Expressing CulturalValues: literature;Agriculture

Outbuildings alsocan be seen, as wellas good collectionof Chopin effects.

Well documented.

Le Petit ParisMuseum

Lafayette Parish,St. Martinville

Small-town museum withMardi Gras costumes anditems that belonged to earlysettlers.

Public Expressing CulturalValues; Building theAmerican Economy;Recreation

Near Evangeline Oak Already developed Tells stories of both highand low culture.

Evangeline Downs Lafayette Parish,near Lafayette

Traditional horse-racingtrack

Private Gambling, Recreation NA Open April-September; races,Friday throughMonday

Provides good taste ofCajun culture.

Sunset Game Club St. Landry Parish,north of Sunset

Cock-fighting club Private Gambling Cormier’s Cock Pit;Circle Club Cock Pit

Visitors should beaware of thisactivity, althoughmany may beoffended.

Can see cocks beinghoused and trained onroadsides; houses arepyramid-shaped metalstructures.

Waterford ThreeNuclear PowerPlant

St. Charles Parish,Taft

Nuclear reactor andinteractive visitor center

Public Resource Extraction Water-powered mills andother industrial sites

Engaging displaysand exhibits. Welldocumented bypower company.

Good juxtaposition of riverand nuclear power.

Airline MotorsRestaurant

St. Charles Parish,near New Orleans,

Classic deco structure builtwhen Airline Highway wasmain road between BatonRouge and New Orleans.

Private Transportation:airlines; Architecture

Compare to river as modeof transportation

Restaurant is open24 hours

Sight alone is enough;however it seems that amarker designating archi-tectural style would beappropriate.

Country MusicMuseum / RebelStateCommemorativeArea

Lincoln Parish,Marthasville

State-sponsored museumfeaturing country musichistory in northernLouisiana and the South;amphitheater also on thesite.

State Expressing CulturalValues: countrymusic; Civil War;Recreation

NA Not well publicizedbut well worth avisit

Funding is beingincreased.

Oakley Plantation West FelicianaParish, St.Francisville

Three-story house built in1799. Naturalist-artist JohnJames Audubon paintedhere while tutoringplantation children.

Public Natural Resources;Expressing CulturalValues: art; Agricul-ture.

None Outbuildings (ararity) exist.

Beautiful home, but con-nection to Audubon ismore compelling.

Virgin’s Island Assumption Parish,Bat Pierre Part

Statue of Virgin Mary thatwas spared in 1882 floodthat destroyed church andmuch of Pierre Part. Statuewas placed on island in bayby residents who believedthat Mary had saved them.

Unknown Spirituality; Expres-sing Cultural Values:statuary; Peopleversus Nature

None Can drive by;interpretationneeded

Statue sits in the bay;visitors need to be awareof it to be able to see it.

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Ara BontempsHome

Rapides Parish,Alexandria

Home of African-Americanpoet, author, scholar,children’s writer. Alsofunctions as a culturalcenter.

Public Cultural Diversity;African-Americanexperience; Vernacu-lar Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Kate Chopin’s house inCloutierville

Small but welcom-ing museum; well-documented dis-plays on Bontemps’life.

Each room is dedicated toa different phase in theauthor’s life.

Mitcham FarmsPeach Orchard

Lincoln Parish,Reston

Huge orchard where onecan observe large-scaleagricultural business

Private Building the AmericanEconomy;Agriculture; WorkingPeople

Sugar cane and rice sites Must call first for atour; not set up fortours but willaccommodate anysize group.

Orchard northeast ofReston may be hard tofind; should call first.

Autrey House Lincoln Parish,Dubach

Oldest “dogtrot” house inLouisiana; built in 1870

Public Vernacular Architec-ture; Early settlers

NA Rustic but authentic Some of the originalfamily furniture is ondisplay. Built by AbsalomAutrey.

Lincoln ParishMuseum

Lincoln Parish,Reston

Typical parish museum;murals on wall aredistinctive.

Public Architecture; Expres-sing Cultural Values:mural art

None Furnishings aretypical of small-town life

Folk art murals, possiblyover 100 years old, depictlife in Reston from itsfounding.

Camp Reston Lincoln Parish,Grambling

Camp that housed up to4,000 prisoners of war,primarily from Germanyand Italy, during WorldWar II.

Public Military History:World War II

None Will be developedfor visitors

Art from some of theformer prisoners is beingsolicited; should be a greatattraction when finished.

Delta AviationMuseum

Ouachita Parish,Monroe

Museum devoted to crop-dusting and other earlyimpetus for aviation inLouisiana

Unknown Transportation: avia-tion; Agriculture

Wendell AviationMuseum

Unknown None

Poverty Point W. Carroll Parish,Epps

Indian Mounds from 700-1,700 B.C.

Public Prehistory;Spirituality; NativeAmericans

NA Viewing platformon the site

Well-preserved architec-tural digs and interpretiveexhibit.

African-AmericanMuseum


Exhibitions depictingAfrican-American life inthis region from settlementto present

Private Slavery; CulturalDiversity: African-Americans; Agricul-ture, Civil RightsMovement

River Road Museum; AraBontemps Home

Small; openirregular hours

Small-town museum

Grant’s Canal E. Carroll Parish,Lake Providence

Canal dug by Gen. U.S.Grant’s men in attempt toseize of Vicksburg.

Unknown Civil War; Militaryhistory; RiverTransport

Arlington Plantation,where Grant stayed, isnearby

Drive-by attraction;more interpretationmay be called for.

None

Cotton Museum E. Carroll Parish,Lake Providence

Museum depictingagricultural economy; hugedisplay of farm equipmentfrom the past is notable.

Public Agriculture, WorkingPeople

Mill tours Open Wednesdaysthrough Fridays

Should be supported byfarm equipmentmanufacturers.

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Centenary StateCommemorativeArea

E. Feliciana Parish,Jackson

Original site of StateCollege of Louisiana;offers exhibits on localhistory, documentation ofearly educational efforts.

Public Education; Civil War;Spirituality

State Tours provided.Open 9-5 daily.

Founded in 1825; used as ahospital during Civil War.

HomerCourthouse

Claiborne Parish,Homer

Courthouse was built in1861; continuing use sincethen.

Public Civil War Various Civil War sites Interpretive aspectlimited because stillin use as acourthouse

1861 Confederate troopsdeparted from courthouse;it is now a tradition for alltroops to depart fromcourthouse.

La Salle Museum La Salle Parish,Goodpine

Photographs detailingparish history housed in1906 Goodpine LumberCompany building.

Private Resource Extraction Sulphur museum Open onlyWednesdays andThursdays; well-staffed by volun-teers.

Importance of lumber andoil industry is emphasized.

Traders’Rendezvous

Grant Parish,Pollock

Frontier Village recreation Private Peopling Places;Cultural Diversity;History

NA Recently opened topublic; informationinterestinglydisplayed

None

Freshwater Spring Grant Parish,betweenGeorgetown andPollock

Artesian spring used foryears and still in use byresidents for drinking water

Private Natural Resources NA Visitor services notneeded.

This spring, initially usedby Native Americans, isstill a good communityresource.

H. J. Smith andSon Museum

St. TammanyParish, Covington

Hardware store operatingcontinuously since 1876;now both a hardware storeand a museum.

Private Peopling Places;Building the AmericanEconomy

NA Owners are cordialto visitors; museumis but a small partof store.

Displays include a 20-foothand-carved pirogue andan iron coffin.

Joyce WildlifeManagement Area

Tangipahoa Parish,near Manchac

Well-maintained woodennature walk in swamp

Public Natural Resources:animal and plant life

Swamp tours Trees and plants arelabeled for a naturewalk.

Well documented.

ConfederateCemetery andMuseum

Tangipahoa Parish,Tangipahoa

Museum displayingConfederate artifacts;adjacent cemetery

City sponsored Civil War Other Civil War sites Open to public None

Mile BranchSettlement

Washington Parish,at fairgrounds

Pioneer settlement withcabins from mid-1800s

Unknown Peopling Places;Agriculture

Traders’ Rendezvous Well structured butcan seem a bit“touristy”

None

Hungarian Settle-ment at Arpadhon

Livingston Parish,south of Albany

Largest rural Hungariansettlement in United States

Unknown Cultural Diversity;Agriculture; ResourceExtraction

NA Could be expanded Settled in 1890s byapproximately 1,500Magyar Hungarians.

LouisianaMuseum of IndianExperience

Washington Parish,Bogalusa

Small, well-maintained,collection of NativeAmerican artifacts

Public Cultural Diversity:Native Americans

Poverty Point Well structured, buthours of operationare difficult toestablish

Adjacent to PioneerMuseum.

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Bogue Lusa Pio-neer Museum

Washington Parish,Bogalusa

Parish museum withartifacts of early life

Public Peopling Places;Agriculture

NA No real expansionwarranted

Named for nearby body ofwater.

Tammany Trace St. TammanyParish, various sitesalong old rail line

Rails-to-trails project tocover 31 miles; 9 milesbetween Abia Springs andMandeville are nowcomplete.

Private/Public Transportation;Recreation

NA Documentation offlora and faunaalong route couldbe helpful.

Converted trail eventuallywill connect all towns inparish.

NorthlakeMuseum andNature Trail

St. TammanyParish, nearMandeville

Nature trail nearFountainbleau State Park

Public Natural Resources NA More funds neededto complete work.

None

Bonnie and ClydeAmbush site

Bienville Parish,south of MountLebanon

Simple marker denotes thespot where Texas Rangerssurprised the outlaws.

Public Working People; LawEnforcement

NA No visitor services;marker is only afew yards fromroad.

None

American RoseCenter

Caddo Parish,Greenwood

America’s largest rosegarden, headquarters ofAmerican Rose Society;118 acres of pathways linedwith rosebushes.

Private Recreation;Expressing CulturalValues: gardening

NA Picnic facilities andgift shop; labelsgive name, type,and heritage ofeach bush; open 10-6 weekends; 9-6weekdays Apr.-Oct.

None

MunicipalAuditorium

Caddo Parish,Shreveport

3,500-seat arena where“Louisiana Hayride” wasbroadcast on KWKH radio.Elvis Presley’s firstappearance was in October1954.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: countrymusic; Recreation

Boomland; Frankie Jean’sPik Quick

Building still inuse, not muchinterpretivepotential at themoment

Presley later appeared onthe “Hayride” TV show inMarch 1955; he later ap-peared at a YMCA benefitat the fairgrounds inDecember 1956.“Hayride” also helpedlaunch Hank WiIlliams,Jim Reeves, Red Sovine,and Slim Whitman.

Meadows Museumof Art, on Cen-tenary CollegeCampus


Museum featuring a one-man exhibit of Indochineseart.

Private Cultural Diversity:Indochinese;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts,photography

Yellow Valley Forge;Margaret Harwell ArtMuseum

Fully developed forvisitor use; open 1-5 Tues.-Fri.; 2-5Sat & Sun.

French artist JeanDespujols traveled toIndochina in the 1930s andcaptured its people andlandscapes on canvas. Hemoved to Louisiana in1941. The Smithsoniandisplayed his works in1950.

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Frankie Jean’s PikQuick

ConcordiaProvince, Ferriday

Drive-through groceryoperated by sister of JerryLee Lewis.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; Recreation;Expressing CulturalValues: music

Lea’s Lunch Room;Shreveport Auditorium;Boomland

Store can accom-modate three cars ata time; driver callsout order as itemsare selected andplaced in car. Noother visitor ser-vices needed.

Frankie Jean does notdisplay her brother’smemorabilia in the store.

Modern MusicCenter andMaster-TrakStudio

Acadia Parish,Crowley

Pioneering recording studioopened by Jay Niller in1949 is still in business.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music;Recreation; Buildingthe American Econo-my: recording busi-ness

Boomland; ShreveportAuditorium

Visitor services arefully developed;business alreadyfunctions as amuseum of sorts.

Cajun musicians recordedhere include Clifton Chen-ier, Rusty and Doug Ker-shaw, Jimmy “C”Newman, and WayneToups. These artists’records may be purchasedhere.

Mass Grave forHurricane Victimsat CombreMemorial ParkCemetery

Calcasieu Parish;Lake Charles

Mass grave of more than200 victims of HurricaneAudrey (1957).

Private People versus Nature Brimstone Museum No visitor servicesneeded; the sim-plicity of theheadstone speaksvolumes.

Hurricane Audrey slam-med into Lake Charles onJune 28, 1957, killing over500. Citizens today stilltend to compare all otherevents to that tragedy.

Circle ClubCockpit

Calcasieu Parish Cock fights on Fridays andSaturdays at a large, well-run establishment. Peoplecome from all over theSouth to participate. One ofthe better and morehospitable establishmentsof this type.

Private Gambling Cormier’s Cock Pit inCankton; Other cockfighting sites

Visitors welcome.Fee of $8-15 admitsone to back, wherebleachers encirclenumerous cockfighting pits. Fightsstart Sats. noon,Fri. nights 10 p.m.,second week inOctober to firstweekend in August.Food and drinksavailable.

Although some people findthis activity objectionable,it is legal in Louisiana.

Dupuy’s Vermilion Parish,Abbeville

Restaurant serves famousraw oysters, an Abbevilletradition for over 100 years.Collection of newspaperclippings of restaurantdating back to 1900.


Lea’s Lunch Room No possibilities forvisitor services innear future, al-though this siteseems deserving ofa plaque or marker.

Joseph Dupuy soldshucked oysters in thisspot for 10 cents a dozen.

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Native Americansettlement

Terrebone Parish,south of Dulac

Houma Indian settlement,home to Houma Nationtribal leader and manyartisans who make canebaskets. Houma Nation isnot federally recognized asa tribe; hence, this is not areservation. Many Houmastill speak a variety ofarchaic French.

Public Cultural Diversity:Native Americanissues

NA A future visitorcenter would behelpful; thiscommunity needsto be documented.

None

Chitimacha IndianReservation

Terrebonne Parish,Charenton

The Chitimacha are theonly Native American tribenative to SouthernLouisiana that still residesin the state.

Public/Private Cultural Diversity:Native Americanissues

Cowan cemetery; Houmasettlement

Visitor centermaintained by JeanLafitte State Park.

Reservation was estab-lished in 1925 and Chiti-macha became first fed-erally recognized tribe inLouisiana. Native customsand lore have almost van-ished; however, Chitima-cha still make split canebaskets.

Lejeune’s Bakery Iberia Parish,Jeanerette

Bakery that has been inbusiness since 1884 offersonly two food items:French bread and ginger-bread “stageplanks.”


Dupuy’s Restaurant No visitor servicesneeded; plaquemarking establish-ment’s longevitywould be appreci-ated.

Bakery also sells T-shirtswith logo.

Turn of theCentury House

St. Mary Parish,Morgan City

House built in 1906 inMorgan City. It wassquarely in the path of theU.S. 90 bridge in 1970 andwas moved a few blocks topresent location.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; Architecture

Chretien Point Plantation Adequately devel-oped as a museum.Weekdays 9-5;weekends 1 p.m.till close.

One of a few homes (notelegant palatial mansions)in an area open for tours.

The Great Wall St. Mary Parish-Morgan City

Corps of Engineers built21-foot-high wall to with-stand great floods. WhenCorps diverts water fromMississippi River to theAtchafalaya River (toprevent flooding NewOrleans), river water laps atthe wall.

Public People versus Nature Shot Tower site; IronFurnace

No visitor servicesrequired; steps nearBrasher and FrontStreets allow visi-tors to climb walland view protectedcity, as well ashomes not pro-tected by the wall(which floodperiodically.)

Corps predicts that whenMississippi River eventu-ally changes course andflows into the AtchafalayaRiver, Morgan City will bedestroyed.

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Indian Mound Iberia Parish,Loreauville

Indian Mound. Only amound in a grassy fieldremains.

Private Prehistory; NativeAmerican issues

Chitimacha IndianReservation; Houmasettlement

Anotherinterpretive centershould be erected.

Once was a livingmuseum; 40 historicstructures and countlessartifacts were auctionedoff at proprietor’s death.

Adam’s FruitMarket

Lafourche Parish,Matthews

Market open since 1939sells fresh local produce,cane syrup, honey, and anassortment of dry goods.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; Building theAmerican Economy

Dupuy’s; LeJeune’sBakery

No developmentnecessary

Owner of Adam’s is ataxidermist and proudlydisplays stuffed localfauna among produce.

Golden RanchPlantation

Lafourche Parish,Gheens

Remains of a plantation.Many turn-of-the-centuryoutbuildings remain, alongwith oldest brick slavecabin in southern Louisi-ana. Only building nowopen is the originalplantation store.

Private Early history; Slavery;Agriculture

Laurel Valley Village Interpreted well bythe GheensFoundation

Also has ruins of an oldsugar mill.

Louisiana CatalogStore

Lafourche Parish,Cut Off

Nation’s biggest clearing-house for material printedin state; also carries docu-ments dealing with Cajunhistory.


La Poussiere dance hall Open Mon.-Sat 10a.m.-6 p.m.

This business caters tovisitors. Site is importantfor anyone interested inCajun culture.

Petit Corporal Lafourche Parish,Golden Meadow

Boat, allegedly the oldest inthe parish. Built in the mid-1880s, it remained in theTheriot family for 100years. First sail-equipped,then engine-powered.

City Recreation Bayou Folk Museum Descriptive markerstands at site

Boat was donated to thecity in 1969.

Laurel ValleyVillage

Lafourche Parish,near Thibodeaux

Defunct sugar plantation;one of only a few left witha variety of outbuildings,including slave quarters,overseer’s cabin, black-smith shop, a crumblingmill. Buildings are pre-served but have not beenextensively renovated (see“Comments”).

Private Local history; CulturalDiversity; Slavery;Building the AmericanEconomy

Golden Ranch Plantation;River Road tour;African-AmericanMuseum

Open daily 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Buildingsare closed to foottraffic. Old GeneralStore serves asvisitor center andmuseum; featuresphotographs andold farm equip-ment; local honeyand cane syrup.

Was the most productivesugar plantation in theparish before Civil War.Plantation road leads past100-year-old laborer’scabin and a woodenschoolhouse. This siteoffers visitors a good lookat holistic plantationsystem.

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La Poussiere St. Martin Parish,near Breaux Bridge,

Cajun dance hall Private Expressing CulturalValues: music, Cajunculture; Recreation

Modern Music Center;Master-Track Studios

None needed; peo-ple can dance andlisten to Cajunmusic every Satur-day from 8:30 p.m.till everyone leaves.

Walter Mouton and theScott Playboys have beenplaying here every Sat-urday night for 30 years.Activities here are highlyindicative of Cajun culture.

Imperial CalcasieuMuseum

Calcasieu Parish,Lake Charles

Museum with a thoroughcollection of books, docu-ments, and artifacts pertain-ing to history of CalcasieuParish; includes a library, areading room, and a fewexhibits. Interestingcollection of Civil Warletters.

Public Civil War Burnt Mill; RollaCemetery

Fully developedvisitor services.Open Tues.-Fri. 10a.m.- 5 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.Sat-Sun.

Museum ground belongedto early settler CharlesSallier. Behind museum isa 300-year-old oak tree.

Steene’s SyrupMill

Vermilion Parish,Abbeville

Largest remaining syrupmill in area. Still belongs tothe original family.

Private Cultural Diversity;People versus Nature

Brimstone Museum, RiceMuseum

No visitor services;plant is still in op-eration, and toursare no longeroffered.

C. S. Steene began themill in 1910 after a hardfreeze threatened to ruinhis sugar crop. This plantis representative of theculture; there once werehundreds of sugar mills insouthern Louisiana, andmany families made theirown syrup.

Lafayette Museum/Jean MoutonHouse


Museum built in 1800 bytown founder Jean Mou-ton. Stocked with originalartifacts used by Acadiansettlers: period furnish-ings, Civil War news-papers.

Public Cultural Diversity:Cajun settlers; CivilWar

Imperial CalcasieuMuseum; LouisianaCatalog store

Well maintained asa museum

None

TransylvaniaGeneral Store

East Carroll Parish,Transylvania

Small grocery and generalstore with a painting ofDracula on window, withmessage, “We’re alwaysglad to have new blood intown.”

Private Cultural Diversity Lea’s Lunch Room;Dupuy’s

Open Mon.-Sat 6a.m. -6:30 p.m.Interesting place tobuy a sandwich andvarious macabreitems.

Adjacent to the store is awhite water tower emblaz-oned with a black bat.Besides food and hard-ware, store sells rubberbats, skeletons, skulls, andT-shirts saying “Trans-ylvania, Louisiana.”

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Tabasco Factory Iberia Parish, AveryIsland

Factory that producesTabasco sauce gives toursand describes how sauce ismade.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: food; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

Brimstone Museum; RiceMuseum

Tours and an intro-ductory movie ex-plain how Tabascopeppers are grown,aged and made intofiery sauce. Visitorsreceive popularminiature bottles.

Interesting tour to learnabout a product that hascome to symbolize Cajunculture in the mind ofAmerica. To obtain salt(used in sauce production),workers mine salt tunnelsbeneath island surface.

Statue of Hadrian Iberia Parish, NewIberia

Statue sculpted in A.D. 130is 7 feet tall and weighs3,000 pounds.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: art

Imperial CalcasieuMuseum; SnyderMemorial Museum

Spotlighted atnight; visitors lookat statue and thenleave.

Hadrian ruled the RomanEmpire from A.D. 117 to138. Statue originallystood in Rome, was takento an English castle in1820, where it stayed until1961, when it was broughtto New Iberia.

Wildlife Gardens Iberia Parish, AveryIsland

Wildlife preserve populatedwith more than 500 animalsfrom southern Louisiana

Private Natural Resources;Recreation

A Cajun Man’s SwampCruise

Tours are one andone-half hours:summer, 10 a.m., 1and 4 p.m.; Oct.,10:30 a.m., 1:30and 3 p.m. ClosedSundays. Feecharged. Can hand-feed some animals.

Gift shop sells nativecrafts. Can see alligators,turtles, otters, bobcats, etc.Well-developed attraction.

Snyder MemorialMuseum

Morehouse Parish,near Bastrop

Museum artifacts housed ina brick building with a redtile roof; separate carriagehouse, gardens. This is anamalgamation of culturalartifacts: Oriental rugs,clothing, and oak furniturealong with cotton scalesand Native Americanartifacts.

NA Cultural Diversity:Native Americans,settlers; Agriculture

Imperial CalcasieuMuseum; Ford Museum;Bayou Folk Museum

Open 9 a.m. -4:30P.M. Mon.-Fri.

Separate carriage households old farmimplements, sidesaddles,cotton scales, and a horse-drawn car-riage. Visitorsshould see that Southernculture was and is a broadspectrum of many cultures,races, and societies.

Mount OlivetChapel

Rapides Parish,Alexandria

Church built in 1854,surrounded by cemeterywith tombstones dating to1824. Church has Tiffanywindows. Except for oakfloor, structure is entirelynative pinewood.

Private Spirituality/Civil War Kent House; St. Martinde Tours Church

After obtainingkey, visitors cantour church andstroll throughcemetery

Church dedicated byBishop Leonidas Polk,who became a decoratedConfederate general.Church survived Civil Warbecause it served as Unionheadquarters.

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Emy-LouBiedenharnFoundation


Biedenharn family man-sion contains rare bibles,manuscripts, and musicalinstruments. Garden out-side features piped musicand splashing fountains.World-renowned concertcontralto Emy-LouBiedenharn was forced toreturn to U.S. (see“Comments”).

Private Spirituality Snyder MemorialMuseum; Bayou FolkMuseum; Mount OlivetChapel

Visitors can strollin gardens ( inaddition to 45-minute house tour.)Site is highlydeveloped.

WW II cut short operacareer. On her return, herfather gave her an originalJohn Wycliffe bible. Hebegan collecting bibles;collection now includes1730 Martin Luther bible,a bible edited by ThomasJefferson, and a bibleillustrated by SalvadorDali.

Briarwood NatchitochesParish, nearNatchitoches

Former home of CarolineDorman, first U.S. womanemployed in forestry, nowa 125-acre nature preserve

Private Working People;Natural Resources

Kent House; Bayou FolkMuseum

March, April, May,August, and No-vember: Sats. 9-5;Suns. Noon-5.Admission. Curatorconducts tours ofDorman home.

Trails wind through forest,and curator conducts toursof the Dorman home.

Layton Castle Ouachita Parish,Monroe

Building c. 1814, withgrounds. Structure has acommanding tower, and anarcaded gallery that gives ita castle-like facade. Madeof rose-colored bricks madeon the grounds.

Private Cultural Diversity:opulent lifestyles

Briarwood; Kent House;Lloyd Hall Plantation

Visitors can sensethe opulent lifestyleof family.

Originally the house ofJudge Henry Bry. Housegives an accurate glimpseof lifestyle of Monroe’sprominent early citizens.

Lloyd HallPlantation

Rapides Parish,near Cheneyville

Three-story building dat-ing to 1810 houses muse-um with vintage items.Also cotton, corn, soy-beans, and cattle are raisedhere.

Private Agriculture; CulturalDiversity

Layton Castle;Briarwood; Kent House

House supposedlyhaunted. ToursTues.-Sat 10-4; Sun1-4 p.m. Overnightstays in 2-bedroomcottage available.

Visitors can pick cotton orgather pecans. Two-bedroom cottage for over-night stays is furnishedwith antiques.

Kent House Rapides Parish,Alexandria

Oldest extant home incentral Louisiana (c. 1796).Four-acre complex includesslave quarters, carriagehouse, barn, gardens.House stands on brickpillars, exemplifyingclassic Louisiana style.

Private Developing theAmerican Economy:agriculture, slavery;Architecture

Layton Castle;Briarwood; Lloyd HallPlantation

Fully developed forvisitor use. Admis-sion charged. Opendaily 9 a.m. - 5p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m.

Classic Louisiana-styleFrench and Spanisharchitecture. Houseoriginally was six blocksaway. Seven period roomsare filled with Empire,Sheraton, and Federalfurniture.

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Lea’s LunchRoom

Rapides Parish,Lecompte.

Country-style cafe estab-lished 1928. All walks oftownspeople eat here.

Private. Daughterof original ownerruns restaurant.

Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: food

Kea’s Lunch Room;Dupuy’s

Open Tues.-Sun.7a.m.-7 p.m.Waitresses recitemenu (handing outwritten menus takestoo long). Visitorscan sense small-town continuity,tradition.

Restaurant is famous forhams baked in dough andpies baked from secretfamily recipes. Owner LeaJohnson has appeared on“The Tonight Show;”daughter Ann now runsrestaurant.

ParlangePlantation House

St. James Parish,near Donaldsonville

Plantation home built in1750; oldest operatingsugar plantation in statestill owned and lived in byoriginal family.

Private Peopling Places;Building the AmericanEconomy

Fairfield Place; ChretienPoint Plantation

Limited visitorservices, as familystill occupies houseof this workingplantation.

Once an indigo plantation.

Chretien PointPlantation

St. Landry Parish,near Sunset

Restored plantation homeopen for tours. Outbuild-ings were destroyed duringCivil War

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; Agricul-ture: cotton-centeredexperience

Layton Castle;Briarwood; Mount OlivetChapel

Highly developedfor visitor use

Windows and staircaseserved as models for thosein “Tara” during the film-ing of Gone With theWind. After Civil War,house was deserted andused as a barn. Open daily10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Spring StreetMuseum


Museum in structure builtas a bank in 1866 and re-cently restored. Is town’soldest extant building; hasa cast-iron balcony. Rotat-ing collection allowsmuseum to showcase largeexhibits of jewelry, cloth-ing, fire-arms, books, andnewspapers.

Private Cultural Diversity (avariety of ethnicgroups have populatedthe area)

Imperial CalcasieuMuseum; SnyderMemorial Museum

Gift shop; toursOctober- JuneSundays 1:30-4:30p.m. or by appoint-ment. Admissioncharged.

Permanent collection ofVictorian era furnishingsfrom 18th century.

CharpentierHistorical District

Calcasieu Parish,Lake Charles

Houses dating from Vic-torian era cover 20 squareblocks. Well- preservedhouses still express indi-viduality of the variousarchitects; rooflines, porchplacements, and otherexterior features vary fromhouse to house.


Kent House; Lloyd HallPlantation

Tours not availablefor most houses,but SouthwestLouisiana Conven-tion and Visitors’Bureau provides amap that outlines adriving/walkingtour of the his-torical district.

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Ford Museum Claiborne Parish,Homer

Museum in 1890 HotelClaiborne exhibits regionalheritage: Indian dugoutcanoes, a pioneer log cabin,a moonshiner’s still, ablacksmith’s forge, fire-arms, cotton scales (see“Comments”).

Public Cultural Diversity;Vernacular Architec-ture; Building theAmerican Economy:early industry;Working People

Bayou Folk Museum;Houma IndianSettlement.

Open weekdays 8-1; 2-4; Suns 2-5p.m. Admission.Communityvolunteers serve asguides and operatefacility.

Collection began whenHerbert Ford’s sons founda German infantry helmetin town dump; Ford startedpreserving historicallysignificant items. Has 30plantation bells, antiquefirearms, reconstructedvillage. Some exhibitscater to children.

Earl Long Park Winn Parish,Winnfield

Park marks site of formerGovernor Earl Long’shome. Imposing statue andplaque.

Public Recreation; Politics Louisiana Political Hallof Fame

Simply a park withpicnic benches, etc.Statue and plaquegive adequateinformation.

None

Louisiana PoliticalMuseum and Hallof Fame

Winn Parish,Winnfield

Museum housed in an oldrailroad depot containspersonal effects and exhi-bits on Governors Allen,Hey, and Earl Long.

Public Working people Earl Long Park Fully interactive.Open free of chargeTues.-Fri. 10-4:30;Sat. 10-noon.

Tours courtesy ofChamber of Commerce.Also con-tains artifactsfrom local salt mines androck quarries.

Oak and PineAlley

St. Martin Parish,north of St.Martinville

Drive through alternatingoak and pine trees, 1 milelong

Public Civil War Rolla cemetery Not much develop-ment potential, butthis story should bedocumented.

Wealthy sugar planterCharles Durand planted a2-mile alley of oak andpine trees along the driveto his plantation house.House burned during CivilWar; 1 mile of treesremains.

Atchafalaya BasinLevee Road

St. Martin Parish,near Henderson

Gravel- and shell-surfacedroad atop levee is used byfarmers, fishermen, andlevee inspection crews. Oldflood-damaged levee is stillvisible.

Private People versus Nature Great Wall; LouisianaCatalog store

Good way to seeriver and variousways that com-munity has tried tocontrol nature.

Road is occasionallyposted with “no trespas-sing” signs, but driversgenerally ignore them withimpunity.

St. John’sCathedral, OakTree, andcemetery


Huge Gothic structure withflying buttresses, built in1916 to replace originalwooden structure of 1822.St. John’s Cathedral Oak,500 years old, stands besidecathedral. Cemetery behindchurch contains grave oftown founder Jean Mouton.

Private Spirituality Lafayette Museum / JeanMouton House

Church, groundsand cemetery arefully accessible topublic.

Mouton’s son, also buriedhere, is purported to havebeen “Gabriel” of Long-fellow’s poem “Evange-line.”

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LafayetteCourthouse


Lafayette County Clerk ofthe Court has collectedover 2,000 photographs ofLafayette area culture andpeople over the pastcentury.

Public Local history Louisiana Catalog Store Well-staffed exhibiton courthouse sec-ond floor. Nocharge; 8:30-4:30weekdays.

None

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Dorcas WalkerHouse

Adams County,Natchez

Home of Dorcas Walker,one of whose daughtersbecame Mississippi’s firstAfrican-American socialworker. Built 1899.

Private Cultural Diversity: theAfrican-Americanexperience

NA No visitor services Social worker’s father was aJewish merchant, CharlesMoritz.

Grand Village ofthe NatchezIndians


Location of historic cere-monial mound center forthe Natchez Indians. Sitetoday features a museum,mounds, nature trails, andreconstructed Natchezhouse.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity: ‘NativeAmericans

NA Wall panels, self-guiding tours;educationalprograms heldregularly.

None

Wagner’s Store Adams County,Church Hill

Country store dating from1877 has been operated bythe Wagners since 1922;also has been run byJewish merchants.


Church Hill No visitor services Until 1922, the store alsowas the town post office.

Natchez College Adams County,Natchez

African-American collegefounded in 1885 byBaptists; operated until theearly 1990s.

Private Cultural Diversity;Education; ExpressingCultural Values:literature

NA No visitor services Anne Moody, author ofComing of Age in Missis-sippi attended Natchezcollege.

Clarence “Bud”Scott House


Home of well-known jazzmusician Bud Scott. Built1910-25.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (jazz)

NA No visitor services Scott is often listed as a NewOrleans jazz musician, sincehe performed frequently inNew Orleans.

Mostly AfricanMarket


Art gallery housed inEmile Angelety House (ca.1850); features works oflocal black artists andwriters; also has gift shopselling West African artsand crafts

Private market inpublic building

Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: arts and crafts;

Natchez Museum ofAfrican-AmericanHistory and Culture

Open Wed.-Sat. 1-5p.m. No structuredinterpretation.Winter exhibitsfeature artwork oflocal artists.

Gallery is operated by alocal activist as a summerenrichment program forlocal African-Americanyouths; proceeds from storego to program.

Richard WilsonHouse

Adams County, .Natchez

Home of Richard Wilson,grandfather of RichardWright, built ca 1900.

Private Cultural Diversity:African- Americanexperience; ExpressingCultural Values:regional literature

NA None Wright lived here as a pre-schooler.

Aaron and QueenVictoria JacksonHouse


House built ca, 1880 forformer slaves Aaron andQueen Victoria Jackson.

Private Cultural Diversity;Slavery; VernacularArchitecture

NA None Descendants maintain ar-chive of family documents.Aaron Jackson was a veteranof the Union Army.

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Natchez Museumof African-American Historyand Culture


Museum in the old federalpost office (built 1904)presents artifacts of blacklife, culture, and history inMississippi.

Nonprofit Working People;Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: family life

Mostly African Market Wall panels andguided tours

None

Mammy’sCupboard

Adams County,south of Natchez

“Home cooking” restau-rant housed in 1941structure shaped like anAfrican-American“mammy.”

Private Cultural Diversity:African-Americanexperience, ExpressingCultural Values: food

NA Restaurant Diners enter through “mam-my’s” red skirt and eat attables in the skirt area. Al-though many people find theimage offensive, it depicts aonce common stereotype ofAfrican-American women.

King’s Tavern Adams County,Natchez

Restaurant built before1798 that once servedtravelers on the NatchezTrace and the MississippiRiver; still serves food,offers lodging to visitors inupstairs suite.

Private Peopling Places;Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: food

NA Restaurant During renovations theskeleton of a woman with adagger in her chest wasdiscovered behind a bricked-up wall. Building. is one ofthe oldest known, datingback to days of NatchezTerritory.

Dunleith Adams County,Natchez

Home (1856) of formerslave John R. Lynch,house servant of A. V.Davis. Lynch became firstblack to hold public officein Mississippi.

Private Slavery; CulturalDiversity; Politics;Expressing CulturalValues: literature

NA None Lynch went on to be speakerof the Mississippi house ofrepresentatives, a U.S. Con-gressman, and an author.

Holy FamilyCatholic Church


Oldest African-AmericanCatholic church in state,built in 1894, finestVictorian Gothic Revivalbuilding in Natchez.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity; Education

NA No visitor services Complex includes an 1894convent, a 1906 schoolauditorium and cafeteria, arectory (ca. 1985), and apost- World War II schoolbuilding.

John Banks House Adams County,Natchez

Home of Dr. John Banks,built 1886-92). QueenAnne style, remodeled in aColonial Revival Style(1904-10).

Private Architecture; CulturalDiversity; Education

NA None Banks was licensed topractice medicine in AdamsCounty in 1889, becomingfirst African-Americandoctor in Natchez. He hostedBooker T. Washington whenhe visited in 1904.

Fork of the RoadSlave Markets


Site of one of the twolargest slave markets in theSouth.

Public Slavery; African-American experience

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Magnolia Valeand Neighborhood

Adams County,Natchez (Under-the-Hill district)

Suburban estate whereUnion Army built “con-traband” barracks to housenewly freed slaves.

Public Slavery; MilitaryHistory; Civil War

NA None Barracks are depicted on the1864 Map of the “Defencesof Natchez and Vicinity.”

Old Prentiss Bolivar County,near Rosedale

Ghost town, once abustling riverport withsaloons and gamblinghouses, now only a smallcemetery plot with 3tombstones.

Public Peopling Places; RiverTransport

Rodney; Grand Gulf;other ghost towns

NA Prentiss “died” three times:burned during Civil War;river consumed a huge partof town , retreated tempo-rarily, and covered it again.

McCarty’s Studio Bolivar County,Marigold

Art studio of Lee and“Pup” McCarty, nativeMississippians who makefamous pottery fromMississippi Delta clay.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: pottery, fineart

The Gallery (restaurant) Open 10-4; closedSundays andMondays

Paintings of Theora Ham-blett (renowned Mississippifolk artist) hang on thewalls. Artists are often onhand to explain works.

The Gallery(restaurant)

Bolivar County,Marigold

Restaurant owned byMcCarty’s, serving“nouvelle” Southern in anelegant � whitetablecloths, fresh flowers,and McCarty pottery.


McCarty studio Open 11:30 a.m. - 1a.m.; reservationspreferred.

Diners choose from two setmenus. Famous for choco-late cobbler.

Mound Bayou Bolivar County,south ofClarksdale

First and largest town inthe United States foundedby former slaves; foundedin 1887.

Public Peopling Places;Cultural Diversity

Other African-Americansites

State historicalmarker at townentrance; cassette-ledtour of town offeredat city hall

Town founded by cousinsIsaiah T. Montgomery andBenjamin T. Green, who hadbeen slaves of Joe Davis(brother of Jefferson Davis);they had conceived ideabefore emancipation.

B. T. CreswellHome

Bolivar County,Mound Bayou

Two-story frame housewhere fourth mayor of thetown, B. T. Creswell, oncelived (built in 1890s).

Private Cultural Diversity;Peopling Places: earlysettlers


City hall offerscassette-led walkingtour. Mound Bayouroom (in city hall)contains a collectionof artifacts andphotos of earlysettlers.

Creswell was a son of one ofthe original Mound Bayoufounders, B. T. Green.Creswell was mayor from1906-1919, the longesttenure in town’s history.

The Dew DropInn

Bolivar County,Shelby

Delta juke institution Private Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)food; Recreation

Other blues sites Open Thursday-Sunday; a “bringyour own bottle”establishment

Great soul food.

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Old Bank / OldPost Office


Former bank and postoffice building constructedin early 1900s.

Private Early history; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy; CulturalDiversity


Cassette-led walkingtours providedthrough city hall;Mound Bayou room(in city hall) containsartifacts/ photos ofearly settlers.

Building also housed adoctor’s office, the MoundBayou Oil Mill and Manu-facturing Company, and theoffice of Knights andDaughters of Tabor.

Fred Miller home Bolivar County,Mound Bayou

Built in 1914, the formerhome of B. T. Green’sdaughter, Mariah GreenMiller.

Private Cultural Diversity;Architecture


Cassette-led walkingtours providedthrough city hall;Mound Bayou room(in city hall) containsartifacts/ photos ofearly settlers.

Mariah Green was marriedto Fred H. Miller, who wasthe third president of theAlpha fraternity, a nationalAfrican-American collegefraternity organized at theturn of the century.

Mary BoozeHome


House built in 1910 forMary C. Booze, daughterof I. T. Montgomery.

Private Cultural Diversity;Politics

I. T. Montgomery home(National Register ofHistoric Places); otherAfrican-American sites

City hall offerscassette-led walkingtour; exhibits inMound Bayou roomof city hall containartifacts and photo-graphs of earlysettlers.

Mary Booze was the Na-tional Republican commit-teewoman for Mississippiduring the 1920s-30s.

Mound BayouCemetery


Cemetery where I. T.Montgomery, founder iftown, is buried, along withother early settlers.

Public Cultural Diversity Other African-Americansites

City hall offerscassette-led walkingtour; exhibits inMound Bayou roomof city hall containartifacts and photo-graphs of earlysettlers.

None

First BaptistChurch


Built in 1905; first churchin Mound Bayou.



City hall offerscassette-led walkingtour; Mound Bayouroom in city hallexhibits artifacts andphotos of earlysettlers.

Originally a multidenomi-national brush arbor (estab-lished in 1888)

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Perry Martin Lake Bolivar County,near Rosedale

Only state park located onthe Mississippi River; herefolk hero/“river rat” PerryMartin once ran a moon-shining business. One ofMartin’s stills sits in frontof the park’s visitor center.

State Mississippi River;Recreation; ExpressingCultural Values:folklore

NA State operates avisitor center at thestate park

Other “PM” memorabiliaand a replica of his house-boat are planned for display.“PM” moonshine was fa-mous throughout the Southand as far away as Pennsyl-vania and Ohio. Kegs of PMmade for state inaugurationballs received highwaypatrol escorts.

Grand Gulf Claiborne County,northwest of PortGibson

Once a thriving riverportin 1850s. Part of town waslost to the river. State’sonly military park.

Public/Private Peopling Places; CivilWar

Rodney and RockySprings are other“ghost” towns

Markers explainsignificance

Noted for Civil War battlewhere Grant tried to launchVicksburg campaign.

No Easy Journey:The Civil RightsMovement inClaiborne County

Claiborne County,Port Gibson

Exhibit of photos, text,material objects tellingstory of civil rightsmovement in county

Private Cultural Diversity;Civil RightsMovement

Mississippi CulturalCrossroads; PicturingOur Past

Open 8-5 Monday-Friday. Photographs,wall panels

Claiborne was a major slave-holding community beforethe Civil War.

MississippiCulturalCrossroads

Claiborne CountyPort Gibson

Community cultural centerand gallery dedicated topromoting the arts. Per-manently displays quiltsmade by African-American people, alsolocal child-ren’s art.

Nonprofit Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: folk art

Port Gibson Civil RightsExhibit: “No EasyJourney” and the cityhall photographichistory of Port Gibson

Monday-Friday, 9-4.Onsite staff providesinformation

Center often has an artist inresidence and onsite quilters.An outside wall muraldepicts the area’s racialdiversity.

Picturing OurPast: Photographsfrom the AllenCollection

Claiborne County,Port Gibson CityHall

Exhibit of 50 photographsshowing life in rural Southin early 20th century.

Private Spirituality; WorkingPeople; Agriculture

No Easy Journey;Mississippi CulturalCrossroads

Photographs taken inearly 1900s,accompanied byprinted explanations

Images of cotton-picking,mule-drawn wagons, small-town architecture, riverbaptisms, country fairs.

WROX Radio Coahoma County,Clarksdale

Broadcast studio whereblues DJ Early “SoulMan” Wright began in1947.

Private Cultural Diversity:African- Americanexperience; ExpressingCultural Values: music(blues)

Other blues sites Visitors welcome Ike Turner was once a DJhere.

Wade Walton’sBarbershop

Coahoma County,Clarksdale

Barbershop where Clarks-dale’s legendary blues-singing barber, guitarist,and razor stropper “doeshis thing.”

Private Cultural Diversity:African- Americanexperience; ExpressingCultural Values: music(blues)

Other blues sites Working barbershop; closed Sundaysand Mondays.

Walton often sings forvisitors (if not cutting hair).

St. George’sEpiscopal Churchand Rectory


Grandfather of TennesseeWilliams was the churchrector here.

Private Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Moon Lake, ThomasCenter

NA Tennessee Williams and hisfamily lived in this area.

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Delta BluesMuseum


Museum in town’s originalCarnegie Public Library(built in 1912). Dedicatedto collecting/ preservinginformation about historyand significance of theblues.

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)Working People

Carnegie Public Libraryin Clarksdale; otherblues sites in the Delta

Extensive collectionof videos,magazines, books,sound recordingsavailable to visitors.

Wall panels explain historyof the blues and individualmusicians. Museum alsocontains artifacts of theblues industry and artworkof musicians.

Carnegie PublicLibrary


Public library constructedin 1912 houses DeltaBlues Museum and exhib-its on history of NativeAmericans in Clarksdalearea.

Public Cultural Diversity:African-Americans,Native Americans;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues),literature

Delta Blues Museum inClarksdale

Maps and otherexplanatorymaterials areavailable

In 1541 DeSoto’s menencountered the QuizquizIndians, whose villageencompassed all what is nowof Clarksdale.

Stackhouse/DeltaRecord Mart andRecording Studios

Coahoma CountyClarksdale

Blues recording studio andrecord store that sells awide variety of blues mu-sic, also, reggae, African,and jazz, mojo bags, andblues books

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

Other blues sites Store Store also sells an informa-tive Delta blues map kit.

Ike Turner’sHouse


House where Izear LusterTurner, Jr. was born andwhere Turner family liveduntil the 1950s.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music

Other African-Americanmusic sites

Private home; novisitor services

None

Smitty’s Red TopLounge


Delta “juke joint” featuredon the cover of the JellyRoll King’s album.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues);Recreation

Other blues sites None None

Red’s South EndDisco

Coahoma County,Clarksdale.

Juke joint regularlyfeaturing Delta bluesmusicians

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues);Recreation

Other blues sites None “Red’s” is painted on sideof brick building withgray paint.

Chamoun’s RestHaven


Lebanese restaurant firstopened in the 1950s by animmigrant couple.

Private Cultural Diversity;Peopling Places;Expressing CulturalValues: food

Mama’s Dreamworld inBelzoni

Restaurant openMonday-Tuesday5:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.;Wednesday-Saturday5:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.;closed Sundays.

Now operated by cousins oforiginal couple; serves tra-ditional Lebanese dishessuch as kibbie, stuffed grapeleaves, tabouli salad, andbaklava.

Uncle Henry’sBed and Breakfast

Coahoma County,Dundee (justoutside ofClarksdale)

Bed-and-Breakfast estab-lishment once called MoonLake Casino


St. Georges, ThomasCenter

Tennessee Williams and hisrector grandfather visitedthis Delta night spot en routeto parish calls in 1920s-30s.Mentioned by Williams inThe Glass Menagerie and byEudora Welty in DeltaWeddings.

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Riverside Hotel Coahoma County,Clarksdale,

Before becoming a hotel in1944, this was the G. T.Thomas Afro-AmericanHospital. Here BessieSmith, “the empress of theblues,” died in 1937.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

Blues-related sites Hotel; can call tovisit.

Hotel has been visited bySonny Boy Williamson,Peck Curtis, Ike Turner, andother well-known musicians.

River MountLounge

Coahoma County,Clarksdale.

Juke joint featuring bluesand soul performances.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues);Recreation

Other blues sites Lounge Kitchen serves “the best fishdinners around.”

Thompson Center Coahoma County,Clarksdale

Theater built for vaude-ville in 1914; later a moviehouse; now a communitytheater for drama.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: dramatic arts;Recreation’

Moon Lake, St.George’s

Used during TennesseeWilliams. Festival inOctober.

Mansion used inmovie Crimes ofthe Heart

Copiah County,Hazlehurst

Elegant colonial mansionbuilt in 1925, kitchen ofwhich was the setting forthe play/film Crimes of theHeart.

Private Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: drama,movies, literature(Southern gothictradition)

NA NA Author Beth Henley alsowrote The Miss FirecrackerContest, which later becamethe film Miss Firecracker.This was set in Brookhaven(Lincoln County).

Tomatopolis ofthe World

Copiah County,Crystal Springs

Town once the largesttomato shipping center inthe nation. Crystal Springstomatoes were consideredthe standard in U.S. andCanada; they were sold inmajor cities in East andWest and even in Liver-pool, England.

Public Agriculture; WorkingPeople; Building theAmerican Economy

NA Chamber ofCommerce has oldnews clippings andhistory.

The end of the tomatoindustry for this area revealshow the trucking industryand a decline in producefarming affected smallagricultural towns in theSouth.

William BurtTombstone atHarmony BaptistChurch

Copiah County,southeast ofCrystal Springs

Tombstone of an earlysettler who lived in threecenturies, having beenborn January 30, 1797, anddied May 19, 1900. Burtbuilt area’s first sawmilland was a vocal abolition-ist.

Public Working People;Cultural Diversity

NA NA Burt lived through the Warof 1812, the Mexican War,the Civil War, and theSpanish-American War. Hedebated with JeffersonDavis, opposing the South’sinvolvement in the CivilWar.

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Chautauqua Park Copiah County,Crystal Springs

Former summer retreat/camp meeting area forSoutherners (1882-1917)on 60 acres of woodedland. An epicenter of artand culture, it was visitedby nationally knownscholars, evangelists,actors.

Public Expressing CulturalValues; Recreation

NA Historical marker;visitor center isplanned

Part of Chautauqua move-ment popular at turn ofcentury (which began inNY). Retreat brought tentrains a day to CrystalSprings. Lake Chautauquawas created by the IllinoisCentral Railroad as areservoir for steam locomo-tives carrying tomatoes

Eudora WeltyLibrary andMississippiWriters’ Room

Hinds County,Jackson

Small exhibit dedicated toMississippi writers such asWelty, Faulkner, andPercy. Contains photo-graphs of authors andsome first editions ofbooks.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Greenville Writers’Exhibit

Open 9-9 Monday-Thursday, 9-6 Fridayand Saturday, 1-5Sunday

Display cases andvideotapes telling aboutMississippi writers.

Mississippi CraftsCenter

Hinds County,Ridgeland

“Dogtrot” log cabinhousing southern folk artsand crafts

Private VernacularArchitecture;Expressing CulturalValues: folk art.

NA Artists’ demonstra-ions held on week-ends from Marchthrough October

Exhibits or demonstrationsof Choctaw basketry, wood-carving, quilting, and weav-ing.

Jim Buck RossMississippiAgriculture andForestry Museum;National Agricul-ture AviationMuseum


Exhibit complex tracingstory of Mississippi farm-ers, lumbermen, and cropdusters.

Private Working People;Agriculture; Aviation

NA Extensive visitorservices

Includes restored 1920stown, heritage center, andrestored farmstead; containscotton gin, crop dusters, andother farm-relatedmachinery.

H. D. Gibbes andSon General Store

Hinds County,Learned (east ofUtica)

Country store opened in1900, featuring collectionsof store’s original fixturesand equipment.


NA Open Monday-Saturday from 7 a.m.till 7:30 p.m. orsundown.

Known for hamburgers.

Mayflower Cafe Hinds County,Jackson,

Downtown restaurantopened in 1935 by Greekimmigrants (from Patmos)during the midst of theGreat Depression. Stillowned by same family.


NA Restaurant Specializes in seafood andGreek salads. Restaurantwas setting for parts of filmThe Chamber, based onbook by Mississippi writerJohn Grisham.

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Smith RobertsonMuseum andCultural Center


Museum housed inJackson’s first publicschool for African-Americans (opened 1894);artifacts portray blackexperience in history, art,music, and literature.

Public/nonprofit Education; CulturalDiversity; ExpressingCultural Values

NA Cultural programsand wall panels giveinformation on blackexperience.

Located in Farish St. His-toric District, which was athriving African-Americanbusiness district in 1920s-1930s. Focus is on journeyfrom Africa, slavery, recon-struction, and present-dayleaders.

Little RedSchoolhouse

Holmes County,south ofLexington.

An 1848 house once theRichland Literary Institute,later Eureka Masonic col-lege, and still later anAfrican-American second-ary school.

Private Cultural Diversity;Education

NA No visitor services In 1910, the Order of theEastern Star (female associ-ate of the Masonic Lodge)was chartered here.

Elmore JamesTombstone

Holmes County,Ebenezer

Tombstone marking theburial site of bluesmanElmore James.

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

Other blues sites No visitor services Grave in church yard isdifficult to find.

Booker-ThomasMuseum

Holmes County,near Lexington.

Small museum of personaland community belongingsleft behind by black ances-tors who migrated to theNorth.

Private Working People;Cultural Diversity;Spirituality

NA Small, informalmuseum

Contains tools, familyphotos, clothing, furniture,and a preacher’s travelinglibrary.

The CatfishCapital

HumphreysCounty, Belzoni

Information center ex-plaining catfish industry inthe Delta.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; Peopleversus Nature (leveesbridge catfish farms);Expressing CulturalValues: food

Wesley Bobo’sRoadside Dinosaurs nearEgremont

Video presentation;also exhibitsexplaining history ofcatfish farming,artistic interpretationof catfish, devicesused in farming(such as nets)

Outside museum is a 40-foot, half ton steel and wiremesh catfish created byMississippi folk artistWesley Bobo. HumphreysCounty has more acreageunder water than any otherU.S. County (water for fish).

Ethel WrightMohammedMuseum:“Mama’sDreamworld”

HumphreysCounty, Belzoni

Small museum exhibitingfamous stitchery of EthelWright Mohammed. Herworks are also found in theSmithsonian Institution.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity; ExpressingCultural Values: folkart

NA By appointmentonly, but will open“at the drop of ahat.” $2 admission.

The late artist learned hercraft from her mother. Herworks depict family life andlife in the Delta. She marrieda Lebanese immigrant in1924, and some of her worksdepict her trip to Lebanon tomeet his family.

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C. B. “Buddy”Newman Museum

Issaquena County,north ofVicksburg

Museum containing arti-facts and memorabiliaconcerning the railroad,Delta floods, Delta farm-ing, and Mississippipolitics.

Private Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Cultural Diversity;Natural Resources;Politics

NA No formal visitorservices; visitors canask the Newmansquestions

C. B. Newman, a formerspeaker of the MississippiHouse of Representatives,spent 40 years in the statelegislature. He openedmuseum after railroadabandoned the line, and hebought part of the railroadtrack for his museum. .

Town ofMayersville

Issaquena County,(county seat)

Town was incorporated byUnita Blackwell,Mississippi’s first blackwoman mayor andfreedom fighter. Issaquenaonce had more slaves thanany other county in theSouth.

Public Cultural Diversity;Peopling Places;Slavery

Freedom House Tours can bearranged throughmayor’s office.

Unita Blackwell was electedin 1976 and was a keyorganizer of the MississippiFreedom Democratic Party,which challenged the all-white delegation to integrateat the Atlanta convention in1964.

Freedom House Issaquena County,Mayersville

Early 1900s “shotgunstyle” house for civil rightsactivists. Crosses wereoften burned in front. Partsof documentary, “Eyes onthe Prize,” were filmedhere.

Private Cultural Diversity;Civil Rights issues;

Town of Mayersville Tours can bearranged throughmayor’s office.

Cornerstone of house ismarked with the insignia ofthe Black and Tan party;meetings were once held inthe house. Actress ShirleyMcLaine stayed here duringthe 1960s.

Harrison Home Jefferson County,Fayette

Property has been ownedby African-Americanssince 1867, two years afteremancipation. House datesfrom 1900.

Private Cultural Diversity;Working People

NA Tours byappointment only

None

Church Hill Jefferson County,Natchez/Fayettearea (nearNatchez Trace)

Country hamlet with oldstore, oldest EpiscopalChurch in Mississippi(English Gothic Revival,1857); three nearbyplantation houses.

Public Spirituality; PeoplingPlaces, Building theAmerican Economy

Wagner’s; The Cedars(Antebellum house inChurch Hill that is onNational Register ofHistoric Places)

Can contactJefferson CountyVisitor Center

Christ Episcopal Church(built 1857) holds servicesonce a month. Plantationsare privately owned, buthouses are visible from theroad.

Lorman OldCountry Store

Jefferson County,north of PortGibson

Country store dating from1896; filled with historicalremnants: tall rollingladders, railroad lanterns,etc.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople

NA None Store has over 80,000visitors each year.

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Hamlet of UnionChurch

Jefferson County,Fayette

Old Scottish settlementdating from 1804, today asmall hamlet still inhabitedby people of Scottishdescent.

Public Cultural Diversity;Peopling Places;Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy

Varnado’s Store None Many old buildings: ante-bellum post office; severalantebellum homes (somewith dogtrots); old ceme-teries and country churches.Town is site of Grierson’sRaid during Civil War, asmall skirmish in whichConfederate forces ranUnion troops out.

Varnado’s Store Jefferson County,Union Church

Country store built in 1861and once operated byJewish merchants; stilloperating.


Hamlet of Union Church Open 7-5 Mondaythrough Saturday; noformal visitorservices, but ownerscan give history.

None

Medgar EversHistorical Marker

Jefferson County,Fayette

Historical marker inmemory of slain NAACPfield worker, MedgarEvers. Statue erected byEvers’s brother who is theformer mayor of Fayetteand was the first blackmayor in the state.

Public Cultural Diversity;Civil Rights struggle

Medgar Evers statue inJackson

NA Evers, considered by manyto be the “forgotten CivilRights worker,” was killedin Jackson during the CivilRights movement. Hismurderer, Byron Beckwith,was the model for the deathrow inmate character in JohnGrisham’s novel TheChamber.

Old Brick Church Jefferson County,Red Lick

1845 Church with oldcemetery; church figuredin the Cotton Balesskirmish in the Civil War.

Private Spirituality; Civil War NA State historicalmarker on highway552 givesinformation.

Town of Red Lick takes itsname from the red clay thatdeer licked for salts.

RodneyPresbyterianChurch

Jefferson County,Lorman.

1829 church in one brickwall of which is stillembedded a Unioncannonball that was firedby gunboat USS Rattler.

Private Spirituality; Civil War NA Historical markersexplain history, butinside not open to thepublic

Difficult to find; can callJefferson County VisitorCenter.

Mount Locust Jefferson County,near Natchez onNatchez traceparkway

Country inn built 1779,said to be set on Indianhabitation. Originally afarmhouse, used as an innfor trace travelers duringthe early 1880s.

Public (part oftrace parkway)

Peopling Places; earlyhistory

NA Free tours 10 monthsa year; closedDecember andJanuary. Historicalmarkers and goodillustrations.

Land surrounding house waspart of a British land grant,once part of British WestFlorida.

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Hamblett-BrownHouse

Lafayette County,Oxford

Former home ofinternationally known folkartist Theora Hamblett,who lived here from 1945until her death in 1977.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: folk art

NA None House built in 1872.

StoningtonPlantation

Jefferson County,west of Harriston

Plantation owned andoperated by Floyd Bailey,an African-American bornto sharecroppers.

Private Cultural Diversity;Agriculture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

NA Tourist centerarranges tours

House once sat on 1,700acres. Plantation was thehome of 10 sharecroppingfamilies.

Ruth andJimmie’s

Lafayette County,Abbeville

Country store built in early1930s. Still sells groceries,and since 1973 has alsoserved homestyle Southerncooking.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: food; WorkingPeople

Other country stores Restaurant open forbreakfast and lunchonly, 7 days a week.

Offers a cookbook for sale.All meals cooked on a cast-iron stove. Menu includesfried okra, steak with gravy,cornbread, cobblers, andvegetable plates. Still hasoriginal counter with stools.

Smitty’s Lafayette County,Oxford

Small-town Southern cafeserving biscuits and gravybreakfasts, vegetable platelunches.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: food, literature

Other Faulkner-relatedsites

Restaurant Good location for visitors toeat and browse the area. Wasa gathering place of Ox-ford’s “old guard,” many ofwhom were friends of authorFaulkner.

Birthplace ofWilliam Faulkner

Union County,New Albany

Historical marker only Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Union County HeritageMuseum; other Faulknersites

Marker tells story The author’s father wasstationmaster of localrailroad, depot a few blocksfrom their house.

Rowan Oak Lafayette County,Oxford

Greek Revival house builtin 1848, bought byWilliam Faulkner in 1930.

Private Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: literature


Open Tues.-Sat.from 10-noon; 2-4;Sun. 2-4. Toursavailable by request;staff can answerquestions.

The plot outline of “AFable” is written on the wallin one room.

Freeland,Freeland, &Wilson, Esqs.


Building (ca. 1868) housedoffice of Phil Stone,Faulkner’s friend.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature;Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople


None Oldest continuing law officestructure in Mississippi.

Duvall’s Lafayette County,Oxford

Building (ca. 1900) whereFaulkner’s great-grandfather established theFirst National Bank in1910.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values;literature


None Building also housed afuneral home and a men’sclothing store; now itcontains a women’s clothingstore. Faulkner refers to it inFlags in the Dust and TheUnvanquished.

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Gatekeeper’sLodge

LafayetteCounty,. Oxford

Home (ca. 1841) ofScottish indentured servantwho designed gardens atRowan Oak and otherOxford homes.

Private Cultural Diversity Other Faulkner-relatedsites

None House was built by JacobThompson, one of Oxford’smost influential and best-known citizens.

Center for theStudy of SouthernCulture (observa-tory on campus ofUniversity ofMississippi)

Lafayette County,Barnard

Teaching and researchcenter dedicated to studyof the South. Exhibitsabout Southern history andculture. It is housed in anantebellum observatory.

Public Education; CulturalDiversity; ExpressingCultural Values

NA Small tours avail-able; must call inadvance. Weekly“brown bag” lunchspeakers; specialfilms, videos,lectures.

Small exhibits; store sellingFaulkner paraphernalia.

DeVoe’sGathright-ReedDrug Company.


Drug store that once had alending library of books,mostly mysteries, whichWilliam Faulknerregularly checked out.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values:literature.


None None

St. Peter’sCemetery


Cemetery where WilliamFaulkner is buried.

Public Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues: literature


State historicalmarker neargravesite.

Many of Oxford’s mostprominent citizens areburied here.

Stone HuntingLodge

Panola County,southwest ofBatesville (offDummy LineRoad)

Lodge where WilliamFaulkner hunted. He laterwrote about his huntingexperiences here in “TheBear” and “The BigWoods.”

Private Recreation; ExpressingCultural Values:literature

Other Faulkner sites None Dummy Line Road was oncethe Batesville SouthwesternRailroad, which Faulknerand friends would take to getto the lodge.

Hindman FamilyCemetery

Tippah County,east of Ripley

Cemetery where RobertHolt Hindman is buried.He was killed by “OldColonel” Faulkner, great-grandfather of authorWilliam Faulkner.

Public Cultural Diversity;Regional history


None Marker reads “Killed atRipley, Mississippi, by Wm.C. Faulkner.” Legendssurrounding the event arestill told in town.

W. R. Cole - R. J.Thurmond House

Tippah County,Ripley

House where formerbusiness partner (and latermurderer) of Col. Faulkner(William’s great-grandfather) lived.

Private Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: literature;Building the AmericanEconomy


None None

Dr. John Y. MurryHome


Early home of WilliamFaulkner’s other great-grandfather, Dr. Murry

Private Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: literature


None None

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Cotton Plant(originally knownas Tippah Farms)

Tippah County,south of BlueMountain College

Former 10,000-acre gamepreserve of Paul J. Rainey,man who made first mo-tion pictures in Africa

Private Recreation; ExpressingCultural Values: film

NA None W. C. Handy performed atparties Rainey gave at hislodge. Gates at NY’s BronxZoo were commissioned byand named for Rainey. Shortfilm clips from Africansafaris can be viewed atRipley Public Library.

Tomb of OldColonel Faulkner,at RipleyCemetery


Tomb of William Faulk-ner’s great- grandfather,marked with large statueof “Old Colonel”Faulkner, built in 1892.

Public Regional history;Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Other Faulkner sites None Tomb and cemetery des-cribed in Faulkner’s Flags inthe Dust. Character Col.Sartoris is modeled afterCol. Faulkner. A drunkendescendant of Old Colonel’skiller shot fingers off thestatue.

Old RipleyRailroad


Only narrow-gauge trackin Mississippi, built by OldCol. Faulkner, William’sgreat-grandfather, 1880-90.



NA Old Colonel was presidentof the railroad in 1870s. Linegoes from Ripley toPontotoc.

Ammadelle Lafayette County,Oxford

Italianate villa designed bywell-known architectCalvert Vaux, begun in1859.

Private Architecture;Expressing CulturalValues: movies

NA None House was featured in 1950sMGM movie, Home Fromthe Hills, which was filmedin Oxford.

University ofMississippi BluesArchives


Home of B. B. King’spersonal collection;functions as a library forblues music.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

NA Appointment neededin advance to go intoarchives. Can listento music or readbooks on blues.

King collection includesover 10,000 records,promotional materials,posters, and photos.

Square Books Lafayette County,Oxford.

Nationally known book-store carrying diverseselection of booksincluding Southern studies.


NA Bookstore Building, first used as a drygoods store, (1860s) was oneof the first built after CivilWar. Frequent visitors arelocal authors Larry Brown,John Grisham, and WillieMorris.

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Taylor Groceryand Restaurant

Lafayette County,Hamlet of Taylor

Country catfish restauranthoused in 1910 countrystore. Known as “thatcatfish place.”

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: food

Other countryrestaurants

Friendly staff happyto give visitorsrestaurant’s history.Open Thursdays andSundays 5:30-9 p.m.;Friday and Saturday5:30-10 p.m.Reservationssuggested.

First to sign walls in 1978were Mississippi Sen. ThadCochran and local writer/celebrity Willie Morris.Since then everyone fromJimmy Buffet to Ole Misssorority and fraternitymembers have signed thewalls.

UniversityMuseums


Museum houses aSouthern folk art room(including largestcollection of works byOxford painter TheoraHamblett); often hasexhibits featuringMississippi artists.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts; folkart

Theora Hamblett house Wall panels; staffcan explain exhibits

Opened in 1975. Behind themuseum is a trail leadingthrough Bailey’s Woods toRowan Oak.

MalmaisonWildlife Refuge

Leflore County,between Green-wood and Teoc(part of land alsoin Carrol County)

Land where GreenwoodLeflore, last Choctawchieftain east of theMississippi River, built aFrench mansion.

Public Natural Resources;Cultural Diversity

NA Greenwood visitorcenter hasinformation onLeflore and hislegacy.

Leflore is considered to havebeen the greatest Choctawchief. When tribe was forcedto go to Oklahoma, hestayed at Malmaison.

CottonlandiaMuseum

Leflore County,Greenwood

Museum depicting historyof Delta region, includingexhibits on Indians,lumberjacks, trappers,traders, farmers, localheroes, artists, writers, andsaints

Private Working People;Peopling Places;Agriculture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values

NA Admission charged. Includes wall panels, cases

Robert JohnsonMemorial (at Mt.Zion M.B.Church)

Leflore County,between Itta Benaand Morgan City

Marker at the Mt. ZionM.B. Church dedicated to“King of the Delta BluesSingers.”

Public Cultural Diversity;Spirituality; Expres-sing Cultural Values:music (blues)

Robert Johnsontombstone in Quito

Visitors can read themarker, and tourscan be arranged.

There is controversy sur-rounding Johnson’s “real”burial site; some argue thathe is buried at Payne M.B.Chapel in Quito, Missis-sippi.

Robert Johnson’sTombstone

Leflore County,Quito

Grave marker for “King ofthe Delta Blues” in ceme-tery behind Payne ChapelM.B. Church.

Public Cultural Diversity;Spirituality; Expres-sing Cultural Values:music (blues)

Robert Johnson markerat Mt. Zion Church

Open to public There is controversysurrounding Johnson’s“real” burial site; someargue that he is buried at theMount Zion Church.

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Lusco’s Leflore County,Greenwood

Originally a grocery andsmall menu restaurantopened in 1933. It stillserves a variety of dishesto diners who sit atindividual partitionsbehind drawn curtains.


NA Open for dinneronly, Tuesdaysthrough Saturdays.

Privately partitioned boothswere constructed in 1933 byowner so local gentry coulddrink his then illegal homebrew. Diners sit behinddrawn curtains and “buzz”their waiters for service.

St. JamesCemetery

Leflore County,Avalon

Cemetery where bluesman“Mississippi John” Hurt,who came from Avalon, isburied.

Public Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

NA Open to public;cemetery is off a dirtroad, difficult to find

Grave is located at the backof the cemetery.

Cobb’s SorghumMill

Panola County,between Bates-ville and Sardis

Sorghum mill run by third-generation syrup makerswho grow, harvest, andprocess the cane.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; WorkingPeople; Agriculture

NA Call before coming;cooking is doneabout three days aweek, includingSaturday; hours vary.

Best time to come is during“cooking time” (late August-late October or earlyNovember) to see actualprocessing. Syrup makersare on hand to explain,recipe brochures available,Mississippi cane syrup forsale.

Como SteakHouse

Panola County,Como

Restaurant housed in oldgeneral store and postoffice serves a variety ofsteaks, catfish, andchicken.


NA NA Patrons can cook their ownsteaks.

BatesvilleMounds

Panola County,Batesville

Group of five Indianmounds once used by theChickasaw Indians.Largest mound, “moundD,” is 35 feet high, and343 feet in circumference.

Public Native Americans;Spirituality

NA Can contact themayor’s office forinformation.

The site of present Batesvillewas inhabited by theChickasaws before 1932.

Tocowa Panola County,southwest ofBatesville

Small town that was ahealth resort in the 1890s-1900s because of thereported healing powers ofthe water in the nearbyspring.

Public Peopling Places;Native Americans

NA None Towns name comes from“Ptoco,” a Chickasaw wordmeaning healing, and“wawa,” a Choctaw word forwater. Indians claimed thewater could heal braveswounded in battle.

U.S. Post OfficeBuilding inBatesville

Panola County,Batesville

Building constructed in1940 was the last largeWPA project in Panola. AWPA-commissioned muralpainted in 1941 hangs inthe building.

Public Great Depression;Peopling Places

NA None This mural, the only WPAmural in Panola and one of afew in the state, depicts acotton field scene: a river, agin, and a steamboat on theriver.

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Mississippi FredMcDowellmemorial (inHammond HillM.B. Church)

Panola County,near Como.

Memorial marking thegravesite of bluesman“Mississippi Fred”McDowell

Public Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)

Other blues-related sites None None

Devil’s Racetrack Quitman Countyinto CoahomaCounty, (trackbegins southeastof Marks)

Shallow depression inearth about 100 feet wide,once used as a waterwayby Native Americans

Public; some-times runs ontoprivate land

History; CulturalDiversity: NativeAmericans

NA Track and its storyknown only to a fewolder townspeople;in the 1980s therewas some talk aboutusing it as a touristattraction.

Local “mystery”: some sayan earthquake created it;others, that Native Ameri-cans built it. “Engineeringmarvel” is same depth at alllocations. May have oncegone to Mississippi River.

Mack PrideBarber Shop/Charley Pride’shometown

Quitman County,Sledge

Barber shop where countrysinger Charley Pride’sfather, Mack, worked from1945 until recently.Charley Pride grew up inSledge and spent time atthe shop.

Private Cultural Diversity;Working People:Expressing CulturalValues: music(country)

NA None Charlie Pride paid for hisfirst guitar by picking cottonin Sledge. He left when was16.

Producer’s Gin Quitman County,Marks

Modernized cotton gin thathas operated since fromthe 1940s.

Private Working People:cotton- centeredexperience

NA Tours available;must call in advance.During ginningseason (Sept.-midNov.) open 7 days aweek, 24 hours a dayOther-wise, 7 a.m. -3 p.m. five days aweek.

Visitors have come to seethis gin from Europe andother places all over theworld.

Wesley Bobo’sRoadside Dino-saurs

Sharkey County,south of RollingFork, nearEgremont

Folk art environmentfeaturing huge metaldinosaurs, giraffes, andother animal creations, allvisible from Highway 61.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: vernacular art

Catfish Capital inBelzoni (Boboconstructed the giantcatfish in front ofmuseum)

None Bobo is a self-taught artistwho uses metal scraps andother “throw-away” objectsto create sculptures.

Onward Store Sharkey County,Onward

Country store built in 1913and still in operation,selling food and teddybears (Teddy Roosevelthunted bear nearby atSmedes Plantation).

Private Recreation; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: food

Smedes Plantation;Theodore Rooseveltbear hunt site

A state historicalmarker in front ofstore explains storyof the bear hunt.Serves short orders,lunches, (known forhamburgers).

Store sells teddy bears andfeatures photographs docu-menting Teddy Roosevelt’shunt.

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Smedes Planta-tion, Site ofTeddy RooseveltBear Hunt

Sharkey County,Onward

Location where TheodoreRoosevelt refused to shoota small captive bear cub onNov. 14, 1902. Theincident is thought to haveled to creation of the teddybear.

Private Recreation; NaturalResources

Onward Store A state historicalmarker on Highway61 near the oldplantation describesthe incident.

None

Muddy Waters’Birthplace

Sharkey County,Rolling Fork

Town bluesman MuddyWaters considered hishometown (he was born ona plantation just outsideRolling Fork).


Other blues sites, DeltaBlues Museum inClarksdale

Gazebo with plaquehonoring Watersstands on East ChinaStreet, across fromthe library.

As a young child “Muddy”moved to Stovall Plantation,near Clarksdale. His brotherstill lives in Rolling Fork.

Craig Claiborne’sBirthplace

SunflowerCounty,Sunflower

Birthplace of celebratedchef and author CraigClaiborne (born 1920)

Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature, food

Claiborne’s childhoodhome in Indianola

None Claiborne wrote A FeastMade For Laughter and wasa food critic for the NewYork Times.

Craig Claiborne’sChildhood Home

SunflowerCounty, Indianola

Colonial style house whereauthor/celebrated chefClaiborne grew up. Hismother ran a boarding-house here.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature, food

Craig Claiborne’sbirthplace in town ofSunflower

None John Dollard, author ofCaste and Class in aSouthern Town, was aboarder at the Craig resi-dence. Here he wrote hissociological study of theDelta.

The CrownRestaurant

SunflowerCounty, north ofIndianola

Elegant restaurant set in acottonfield. It servesnationally famous catfishpate

Private Agriculture;Expressing CulturalValues: food

NA Open 12-2 p.m.Tuesdays throughSaturdays;reservationspreferred.

Catfish pate and homemadepies are best sellers. Antiquemall attached to restaurant.

Where theSouthern Crossesthe Dog inter-section

SunflowerCounty,Moorhead

Intersection of the YazooDelta (or Yellow Dog) andSouthern Railroads (ascelebrated in song by W.C. Handy). Visitors canstop at Roberts CountryStore and adjoiningYellow Dog Cafe.


Delta Blues Museum,Clarksdale

State historicalmarker explainssignificance.

Once a meeting point forDelta residents. Both blackand white took the YellowDog from rural Mississippito Memphis. Original struc-ture of cafe (1920) burned. Itwas rebuilt in the 1980s.

W. C. Handymarker

TallahatchieCounty, Tutwiler

Marker showing where thedepot once stood inTutwiler, commemoratingHandy’s “discovery” ofthe blues.


Other blues-related sites,Delta Blues Museum inClarksdale

Historical markerexplains story.

The story goes that Handyheard a man waiting at thedepot playing guitar andsinging about “goin’ wherethe Southern crosses the Dog(circa 1903).”

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Dockery Farms SunflowerCounty, betweenCleveland andRuleville

Once a large, well-knowncotton plantation wherefamous blues musicianssuch as Charley Patton,Henry Sloan, and WillBrown lived; Dockery isconsidered by many thebirthplace of the blues.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: cotton-centered experience;Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music (blues)


NA Howlin’ Wolf (whose auntlived at Dockery) learned toplay from other bluesmen atDockery; “Pops” Staplesgrew up near the plantationin Upper Dockery.

B. B. Kingbirthplace

SunflowerCounty, Indianola

Birthplace and childhoodhome of blues musician B.B. King.



NA B. B. King’s handprints,footprints, and autograph arein town’s sidewalk at cornerof 2nd and Church Streets.

Charley Patton’sGrave at NewJerusalem M.B.Church

SunflowerCounty, HollyRidge

Grave of legendarybluesman Charley Patton



None Church deacons used to hirePatton to perform religioussongs in the 30s. Gravesite isbeside the Holly Ridge Gin.

Parchman Prison SunflowerCounty, Parchman

Operating prison onceused for the now-vilified(and defunct) convictleasing system. Asprawling enclave of15,700 acres.

Private Working People;Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music


Can makeappointments fortours

Faulkner described systemas “destination doom;”current scholars say it was“worse than slavery.” Prisonheld numerous now-famousblues musicians: Eddie“Son” House, Bukka White(who recorded “ParchmanFarm Blues” after hisrelease).

The PrentissMound (alsocalled the DawsonMound)

SunflowerCounty, on LakeDawson, south ofInverness

Indian Mound 700-800years old, 30-40’ high,once a temple used forceremonial rites. Predatesthe Chocktaws andChickasaws who latersettled the region.

Private Spirituality; NativeAmericans

Other mounds NA Mound gained nationalattention from a speechmade at by Seargent SmithPrentiss (Whig lawyer fromVicksburg) on a 1841 bearhunt.

Sonny BoyWilliamson’sGrave (besideWhitfield M.B.Church)

TallahatchieCounty, Tutwiler

Grave and marker ofbluesman “Sonny Boy”Williamson. (Buildingdoes not look like achurch.)



None Grave is hard to find. Fansoften leave harmonicas,spare change, etc. on grave.

First MondayTrade Day


Mississippi’s largestorganized flea market, andone of oldest in nation, hasoperated continuously formore than 100 years.

Public Working People;Recreation; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

NA Saturday and Sundaybefore first Mondayof each month.Brochures availablefrom Chamber ofCommerce.

More than 50 acres ofvending stalls. Some itemssold are rare birds, huntingdogs, southern foods, andantiques. Totals 10,000-40,000 visitors per month.

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Union CountryHeritage Museum


Small museum housed in aformer Catholic church,offers exhibits on Faulknerand county history.

Private Peopling Places,Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Faulkner sites Wall panels anddisplay cases

None

Chickasaw burialmound: Ishteho-topah, (“greatleader”), last Kingof the ChickasawNation

Union County,Ingomar

State historical markeridentifies burial moundand surrounding land.

Private Spirituality; NativeAmericans

Other Native Americansites

Historical markertells story of howIshtehotopah cededtribal lands to U.S.and led tribe toOklahoma.

By signing the Treaty ofPontotoc in 1832, the leaderceded the tribe’s lands to theU.S. and led the Chickasawsto southern Oklahoma,where they live today.

The Frenchman’sGrave

Union County,between Tippah &Union

Burial site surrounded bywhite picket fence whereFrench immigrant prisonertried to escape from thechain gang, but was shot.

Public Working People,Cultural Diversity;Building the AmericanEconomy; LawEnforcement

Parchman Prison Convict lease”laborers were used toextend the RipleyRailroad in late1870s. One of 80such laborers, aFrenchman, is said tohave been wronglyaccused but couldnot speak English todefend himself.

Local legend says the mangot word of his wife’s graveillness and so tried to escape,but he was shot.

BiedenharnMuseum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia

Warren County,Vicksburg

Small museum containingold Coke bottles, bottlemachine, advertisements,and 1900 soda fountainhoused in the originalbuilding where Coke wasfirst bottled in 1894.

VicksburgFoundation forHistoricPreservation

Recreation; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

NA Guided toursavailable; wallpanels and readingmaterials provideadditionalinformation.

Building was constructed in1890. Coke was invented inAtlanta in 1886 but soldonly as a fountain drink. Itwas first bottled in Vicks-burg in 1894.

WaterwaysExperimentStation


Research, testing, anddevelopment facility forArmy Corps of Engineers;early Mississippi Riverdevelopment was pione-ered here.

Public Natural Resources;People versus Nature

NA Open to public 8-4Mon.-Fri.; brochureand map availablefor self-guided tours.

Automated models, taperecordings, videos explainmodern feats of engineering.Visitors can see how COE“tamed” Delta region’senvironment.

Margaret’sGrocery


Country grocery store built1854, converted into folkart environment thatconveys a religious/patriotic message.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural values;Spirituality

Earl’s Art Gallery Personal tours byMargaret andhusband, Rev. H. D.Dennis. Open 7 days;should call beforevisiting.

The Rev. Dennis will givesermon to visitors duringvisits. Good examples ofsouthern folk art.

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Earl’s Art Gallery Warren County,near Vicksburg.

Folk art environmentincluding art shop,museum, and restaurant.Built by folk artist EarlSimmons over 14 yearsfrom scrap lumber andother salvaged materials.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values: folkart; Vernaculararchitecture

Margaret’s Grocery inVicksburg

$2 admission to seeEarl Simmons’s artwork; personal toursled by Mr. Simmons.

Family photos, oldnewspaper clippings, and oldjuke box.

Freedmen’sSavings and TrustCounty


Antebellum building thatonce housed the Freed-men’s Savings and TrustCompany.


NA Self- guidingwalking tours can bearranged throughtourism office.

Bank, operated by whites forthe benefit of African-Americans, was one of threeoperating in Mississippi.

Union SavingsBank


Second African-American-owned bank in the statewas once housed here.


NA Self-guided walkingtours can bearranged.

Bank started in 1903.

Lincoln SavingsBank

Warren County,Vicksburg, NorthWashington St.(4th building fromthe corner)

The first African-American-owned bank inMississippi was housedhere; it opened in 1902 andwas dissolved in 1909.


NA Self-guided walkingtours can bearranged.

Bank was founded andorganized by African-Americans. Also in thebuilding were offices ofprominent African-Americans and theirorganizations.

Bogue MemorialCemetery; James‘Son’ Thomas’sgravesite

WashingtonCounty, outside ofLeland

Burial site of bluesmusician James “Son”Thomas, who was buriedhere on July 3, 1993.

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music {blues)

Other blues sites Open to public Difficult to find.

C & G RailroadDepot

WashingtonCounty,Greenville

Station built ca. 1880 fortrain line that ran aroundGreenville; exhibits dis-play railway architecturefrom days of thrivingrailroads.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads

NA A full servicerestaurant, TheC&G, is also locatedin the depot.

Visitors cannot enter thetown because of firehazards.

How JoyRestaurant


Oldest Chinese restaurantin Mississippi; operatedsince 1968 by Cantoneseimmigrants who movedhere in the 1940s.

Private Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: food; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

NA Restaurant. Founderfollowed relativesinto the Delta in the1940s

Greenville has a relativelystrong Chinese community.First immigrants came asindentured servants to workon railroads after Civil War.

St. Joseph RomanCatholic Church


Gothic Revival Churchbuilt in 1907, designed bya Dutch nobleman, Fr. P. J.Korstenbroek, who ismemorialized in WilliamAlexander Percy’s novelLanterns on the Levee.

Private Spirituality NA NA Church is replica of cath-edral in Harlan, Holland.

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Doe’s Eat Place WashingtonCounty,Greenville

Nationally famousrestaurant in a shotgunstyle frame building.Opened as a grocery byItalian immigrant parentsof Dominic “Doe” Signain 1903.


NA Restaurant. Famousfor steaks andtamales, favorites ofElvis Presley andPresident Clinton.

Establishment still resemblesa “mom and pop” grocery.In the 1930 it wasspeakeasy.

The WilmontStore

WashingtonCounty, south ofLeland

Country store built in1940s, still in originalcondition and still sellsgroceries.


NA Open 6 a.m. - 8 p.m.Monday - Friday; 6a.m. - 7 p.m. Satur-days; open on Sun-days during plantingand harvestingseasons.

Serves short orders for farmlunches. Displays Civil Warsaddles, old coffee grinders,and antiques in store.

U.S. Departmentof AgricultureAquatic ResearchCenter

WashingtonCounty,Stoneville

Largest USDA researchfacility east of the Missis-sippi. Five operationalcotton gins and USDA’sgin lab; shows ginningtechniques from 1950s topresent.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; Agriculture

Birthplace of the “Frog”Exhibit, Greenville.

Safety concernspreclude individualtours, but adjoiningbuilding housesdisplay outliningStoneville’s role inagricultural research.

Father of “Muppets” creatorJim Henson was employedby USDA in Stoneville,where family lived on thegrounds. Stoneville is alsobirthplace of mechanicalcotton picker and pond-raised catfish.

Birthplace of theFrog (JimHenson) Exhibit(at GreenvilleChamber ofCommerce)


Exhibit telling about JimHenson’s childhood daysin Stoneville; storiesbehind creations such asKermit the Frog.


U.S. Department ofAgriculture AquaticResearch Center inStoneville (whereHenson’s father workedand family lived)

Photos, memorabilia Henson played along thebanks of Deer Creek nearStoneville. This inspiredKermit, which he firstcreated as a 7th grader andlater named after a child-hood friend.

Avon Grocery WashingtonCounty, Avon

Former railroad depot builtin 1880s, now a countrystore selling dry goods andgroceries.


NA General store Owned by same family sincethe 1920s, once used as theirhouse. Present owner livedthere as a child. Old photosand original deeds hang onwall.

Store WashingtonCounty, Chatham

Country store from 1940s.Displays collection ofcotton scales, old bottles,and antique tools associ-ated with cotton farming.


NA Plate lunches servedduring harvestingand planting seasons(Oct.-Nov. andApril)

Post office is also housed instore; owner hand-deliversmail.

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Mt. Horeb M.B.Church


Church established andbuilt by six former slaves.First church erected byAfrican-Americans inGreenville.


NA NA None

Mississippi. RiverLevee (Greenvillewaterfront)


Levee built to “hold back”the Mississippi River. In1927 the levee broke inGreenville, flooding theDelta.

Public People versus Nature NA Visitors can walk ontop of the levee.

Visitors can walk along thelevee at the downtownwaterfront between Mainand Central.

Live OaksCemetery

WashingtonCounty,Greenville,

Historically all African-American cemetery whereformer slave and bear huntleader Holt Collier isburied.

Public Spirituality; CulturalDiversity; history

Onward Store, SmedesPlantation

Historical marker atentrance of cemeteryexplains Collier’sstory.

Holt Collier led the huntingexpedition in which TeddyRoosevelt refused to shootthe bear, thus launching thecreation of the teddy bear.Collier had trapped the bearfor Roosevelt to shoot.

Sacred HeartRoman CatholicChurch andSeminary

WashingtonCounty,Greenville,

Church where, in 1913,missionaries started aschool for black youth. In1920 they formed the firstU.S. seminary for trainingblack priests.


Live Oaks Cemetery(Holt Collier grave);Onward Store; SmedesPlantation

State historicalmarker; guided toursavailable upon re-quest. Hard to find;should call beforevisiting.

Across street from church isHolt Collier Street, namedfor former slave who guided1907 Teddy Roosevelt bearhunt.

RattlesnakeBayou


Area where slaves built alevee in 1840s to protectarea homes and fields.

Public Slavery; People versusNature

NA Historical markeridentifies the levee

NA

Winterville IndianMounds StatePark and Museum

WashingtonCounty,Winterville-

Pre-Columbian moundcomplex of 15 mounds,including Temple Mound,six stories (60 feet) tall,constructed by predeces-sors of Chickasaw andChoctaw Tribes.

Public Prehistory;Spirituality; NativeAmericans

NA Onsite museum openWed.-Sat. 8-5, Sun.1-5; closed Mon.-Tue, Admission $1;kids $0.50. Tellsstory of “lost tribesof Winterville.”

NA

Ruins of St.John’s EpiscopalChurch

WashingtonCounty, near Mt.Holly on bank ofLake Washington

Ruins of a church (conse-crated in 1857) that wasdestroyed in 1907 by atornado.

Public Spirituality; Civil War NA Lead from stained-glass windows fromthe church was usedfor bullets in CivilWar.

None

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St. Mathews AMEChurch


Church was organized in1867 on Levee Street andlater moved to present site.


NA NA First AME church estab-lished in the Delta andfourth in state. Since beingmoved to its present site in1890, it has been visited byPresident Herbert Hoover(1927), Langston Hughes(1931), and opera singerLeontyne Price (1949).

GreenvilleWriters’ Exhibit,William Alex-ander PercyMemorial Library


Exhibit showcasing worksand memorabilia of Green-ville’s hometown writers:Shelby Foote, Ellen Doug-las, others (see“Comments”).

Public Expressing CulturalValues: literature

Eudora Welty library,Jackson

No admissioncharge. Open 8-5Mon.-Sat. Books,silk screen panels,photos, etc.

Greenville claims morepublished writers per capitathan any other U.S. town,among them Hodding CarterII, Hodding Carter III,Walker Percy, Clifton L.Taubert, Beverly Lowry,Bern and Franke Keating,David L. Cohn, Robert HillNeill.

Wilkinson CountyMuseum

WilkinsonCounty,Woodville

County museum withexhibits on SouthernJewish experience andAfrican-American history

Private Cultural Diversity;Peopling Places

NA Museum offersmorning lectures andsite visits; staff andexhibits can giveinformation

None

William GrantStill Marker

WilkinsonCounty,Woodville

Marker on courthousesquare dedicated toWoodville native WilliamGrant Still, African-American composer

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues: music(classical)

NA Marker explains thatStill is aninternationallyknown composer.

None

Jewish Cemetery WilkinsonCounty,Woodville

Town cemetery for Jewishpeople. It was usedextensively from CivilWar through World War I.

Public Spirituality; CulturalDiversity

Wilkinson CountyMuseum

Open to public Many tombstone inscriptionsare in Hebrew. Today thereare no Jewish residents;most were farmers who wereruined with the arrival of theboll weevil.

Pond Store WilkinsonCounty, nearWoodville

Country store constructedin 1881.


NA Open 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.daily; tours of storeavailable byappointment;admission $2.50.

None

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Casey JonesRailroad MuseumState Park

Yazoo County,Vaughn

Museum in old depot nearsite of infamous crash thattook Casey Jones’s lifehonors Jones and tellsstory of railroads inMississippi.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy: railroads;Expressing CulturalValues: music (folk)

Other railroad sites Wall panels, photos,and railroadmemorabilia

Museum tells story ofCasey’s Train, “the Cannon-ball.” An authentic steamengine, No. 841, is displayednext to the museum.

Oakes AfricanAmerican CulturalCenter

Yazoo County,Yazoo City

Museum with exhibitsdetailing African-American contributions tothe arts, Civil Rights, andeducation.

Private Cultural Diversity NA Open Mon.-Sat. 9-12and 1-4; Sundays, 1-4. Wall panels,artifacts, photos,guided tours.

None

Duke CarterMuseum


Museum containingcollection of a formerYazoo resident whocollected tools.

Private Cultural Diversity;Working People

NA Open Monday -Friday 8-4; closedSaturday andSunday. Guidedtours available

Duke Carter’s hobby wastool collecting. Includeswood planes, blacksmithtools, railroad equipment,and other early 20th centuryinventions.

Greg HarkinsChairs (Harkins’Woodworks)

Yazoo County,Vaughn,

Old country barn wherenationally acclaimedchairmaker crafts oakrockers. World celebritiesand four presidents havebought Harkins chairs.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; WorkingPeople

NA Personal tours ofshop available;should call in ad-vance. Harkins hasbeen featured bymagazines AmericanWoodworking, Es-quire, and FineWoodworking.

Visitors can learn abouttraditional chair-makingtechniques. Harkins, adescendant of Irish immi-rants, learned craft from alifetime maker of chairs andhas received an award fromthe Mississippi Arts Com-ission.

Boyhood home ofWillie Morris


House where author WillieMorris lived in childhood;family moved here in1940.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: literature

The Hoka, Oxford NA Morris, who now lives inOxford, wrote about his daysin Yazoo in Good Old Boy,published in 1971.

Witch’s Grave inGlenwoodCemetery


Cemetery where a graveknown as “the Witch’sgrave” is surrounded bychain-link fence.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: literature; locallegends

Boyhood Home ofWillie Morris

Informationavailable at YazooCity visitor center.“Witch of Yazoo” isblamed for fire of1904.

The 1904 fire destroyed over200 homes and mostbusinesses. Story of thewitch is told in WillieMorris’s book Good OldBoy.

Country CharmAntiques &Museum

Webster County,Eupora

Assortment of 12 buildingson 1-acre site with six logcabins; two buildings serveas antique store; others aremuseums with differentmotifs.

Private Peopling Places;Working People;VernacularArchitecture; earlyhistory; Civil War;Spirituality; Education

None Knowledgeableowner Beth Farnellprefers arrangedappointments, butusually there noon-4on weekends. $3admission; childrenunder 12, free.

One log cabin that has beenreassembled was a hospitalin Civil War. Museumsinclude a 1700 smokehouse,a country store, antiquewashing machines andwashboards, a toolhouse,schoolhouse, chapel, etc.

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Cactus Plantation Hinds County,Edwards,

World’s only cactusplantation has 3,500varieties of exotic cacti,succulents, etc.

Private Natural Resources;Civil War

Other Civil War sites Free admissionMonday-Saturday, 9-5; Sunday, 1-5

Contains cacti, succulents,bromeliads, etc. The Battleof Champion Hill wasfought on this site.

Canton FleaMarket

Madison County,Canton,

Crafts fair about 33 yearsold draws more than 500vendors from all over tosell fine art, pottery,jewelry, antiques, andplants.

Public Building the AmericanEconomy; ExpressingCultural Values

First Monday TradeDay, Ripley; other fleamarkets and craft shows

Second Thursday inOctober and Mayeach year on secondThursdays in Oc-tober and May;should make ar-rangements before-hand; come early.

Parking is expensive; shuttlebuses available. Showcasesmuch of historic Canton;thousands of visitors come.In between shopping, localpeople will relate storiesabout John Grisham filmingA Time To Kill exclusivelyin Canton.

Mrs. L. V. Hull’sHouse

Attala County,Kosciusko,

Apparent junkyard withcollection of many items,leading into a tiny house.


NA No admission,donations accepted.

Colorful yard containshobbyhorses, clocks, old TVsets, etc., that some see asfolk art. Shoe tree is ofparticular interest.

Dennis MitchellFarms

CovingtonCounty, Collins

A working farm that offerspeanuts and pick-your-own vegetables duringseason.

Private Agriculture; WorkingPeople; ExpressingCultural Values: folkart

NA Check times forpicking as well asdifferent seasons

Farm has a restored logcabin with an outhouse. Inaddition, Nelda Mitchell is afolk artist who creates beau-tiful wood sculpture andother art works.

TutwilerMississippi Quilts

TallahatchieCounty, Tutwiler,

Started in 1988; offersquilts, quilted bags, potholders, table runners, etc.,made by Tutwiler Quiltersin the Afro-Americanquilting tradition.

Public Working People;Expressing CulturalValues; CulturalDiversity

NA Items are alsoavailable by mailorder

This activity of the TutwilerCommunity Education Cen-er began in 1988. Areawom-en use proceeds fromsales to support themselvesand their families.

Collins ExoticAnimalOrphanage

CovingtonCounty, Collins,

Home for exotic pets(lions, panthers, alligators)that original ownersabandoned when theybegan growing up.

Private Natural Resources NA $3 admission Said to be more personalthan zoos.

Sue’s Ceramics CovingtonCounty, Collins

Ceramics shop operatedyear-round in owner’shome; offers seasonalceramics as well as generalpieces.


Lazy M Emu Open year-round. Owner Sue McCall sells theceramic pieces herself.

Lazy M Emu CovingtonCounty, Collins,

Enoch McCall, husband ofSue McCall, raises emus;public can visit.

Private Natural Resources Sue’s Ceramics Public may visit None

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Roger’s Basketry CovingtonCounty, Mt. Olive

Roger Jamison, a self-taught young basketmaker,began crafting basketsafter an aunt gave him abook on basketmaking. Heis a member of Old OrderGerman Baptists, whoselifestyles resemble those ofthe Amish.

Private Spirituality;Expressing CulturalValues

Martha’s Kitchen Visitors should notcome on Sundaywhich is a holy day.

Baskets, made by using onlya pocket knife, scissors, anda tape measure, are made ofsplit rattan either left innatural color or dyed withthe use of pecan shells. Theycome in a variety of stylesand are very popular.

KosciuskoMuseum

Attala County,Kosciusko,

Museum dedicated to thetown’s namesake, Revolu-tionary War hero Thad-deus Kosciusko.

Public Cultural Diversity(Kosciusko did not livein Mississippi; he wasPolish), regionalhistory

NA Open daily 1-4 p.m. This historic town has anumber of grand homes;museum exhibits show this.

MississippiTreasures

De Soto County,Southaven,

Recently opened store inan old building promises“antiques only.” Dealingwith over 50 vendors,owners Brenda and KimMahan offer everythingfrom bedroom pieces toCivil War trinkets.


NA Open Monday-Saturday, 9-7;Sundays, 10-6.

Mark Twain referred to thecobalt windows of thestructure ( still untouched) inLife on the Mississippi.

Levee PlantationGuesthouse

Tunica County,Tunica

Cook house about 100years old on a workingfarm.


NA Rented as a guest-house for short stays.

Inside of house has beenrenovated, but outsidestructure is intact with porchand screen.

Hotel-Cafe Marie Tunica County,Tunica

Hotel opened in 1918; hadnot operated for 30 years;reopened in 1995.

Private Architecture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

The Blue & WhiteRestaurant has a pictureof the Hotel Marie in itsearly days

Hotel service 24hours a day; restau-rant is open week-days for lunch anddinner; for dinneronly on weekends.

The original staircase anddoor frame separating lobbyfrom the cafe are preserved;original exposed brick wallis in every room.

Annual RiversideBlues Festival

Jackson County,Riverside Park

Largest Blues festivalbetween Chicago, St.Louis, and Memphis.

Public Festivals; ExpressingCultural Values: music(blues)

Other Blues sites Festival is in Julyeach year; must calland confirm date, asdates vary

None

Freedman TownMarker


Recently erected markerindicating where freedmenfrom Oxford and Lafayettearea settled after CivilWar. The areas encom-passed Jackson Avenue,Price Street, the railroad,and 9th Street.

Public Civil War; CulturalDiversity; Civil Rights

Other Civil War sites Marker can be seeneasily at any time.

None

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Second BaptistChurch


Two frame church build-ings were built here in1873 by recently freedmen. One was mysteri-ously destroyed by fire.The stone Second BaptistChurch was built in 1911and replaced with currentbuilding in 1986.

Private Spirituality; Civil War;Cultural Diversity

Freedman Town Marker Visitors can driveby.

None

The Dinner Bell Pike County,McComb

Restaurant in a colonial -style structure featuresround-table dining andSouthern cuisine.


Revolving Tables Restaurant closedMondays. FeaturesSouthern stylecooking.

Building was a boarding-house in the 1940s. After itwas moved in 1961, theround tables were adopted tomake eating easier.

Marshall CountyHistoricalMuseum

Marshall County,Holly Springs

Museum in a 1903 build-ing contains a war roomfeaturing materials fromWar of 1812 to the KoreanWar; also has a Civil Warmemorial exhibit, histori-cal clothing, dolls andtools. There is a PlantationRoom and a readinglibrary.

Public Military History;Working People;Agriculture; Spiritu-ality; Education

Country Charm, otherCivil War sites

Regular hours. Building was constructed aspart of MississippiSynodical College,previously the MauryInstitute (a women’s collegefounded in 1883) and theNorth MississippiPresbyterian College(founded in 1890, mergedwith Belhaven in 1939).

Hugh LawsonWhite Mansion

Marion County,Columbia

House in Spanish ColonialRevival Style. One of Mis-sissippi’s finest houses,begun 1925; completed1927. Home of formergovernor Hugh Lawson.Original dining roomfurniture and drapery fromChicago’s Marshall Fieldsare intact.

Private Architecture None By appointmentonly; tours con-ducted once a month.

One of two in the area; theother was built by White fora member of hisgovernment. Inside are alsofloor-to-ceiling murals doneby an artist from Malta.

Kearney ParkFarms

Madison County,Flora

Quail-hunting facilityoffering tours and over-night accommodations.

Private Recreation NA October throughMarch, official quailhunting season.There is a per birdcharge.

Quail hunting is not acommon pastime in thisarea. Quails are notindigenous to state, so birdsare released.

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Mt. Zion BaptistChurch

Madison County,Canton

Church organized 1865;now housed in a buildingconstructed in 1929.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity; Civil War

Other Civil War sites;churches

People can drive byand see the church.

Before the Civil War and thesigning of the EmancipationProclamation, African-American members worship-ped with white BaptistChurch members.

The Blue & WhiteRestaurant

Tunica County,Tunica

Restaurant in same loca-tion since 1937; it wasonce a restaurant andservice station. Pictures ofTunica of yesteryear dotthe walls. Gas pumps stilloutside. Has been featuredon CNN.


Other restaurants Open regularly.Known for freshturnip greenseveryday; uniquedelicacies likescrambled porkbrains. Owner isfriendly and cananswer a lot ofquestions.

Restaurant began in 1924 atOld Hwy 61. First of theBlue & White chain andonly one of its kind left. Mr.Wiley first bought the Blue& White in 1969, sold it andbought it again. There is a1937 framed newsclippingof the opening.

HowcottMonument

Madison County,Canton

Erected between 1894 and1900 by William Howcottto honor his body servant,Willis Howcott, whopresumably died in battle(Civil War).

Public Civil War; CulturalDiversity

Other Civil War sites,especially thosepertaining to slaves

Visitors can drive byand see memorial.

Not much known about thenature of the stature. HarleyHowcott, Sr. (relation toeither unknown) of NewOrleans says “slaves oftenaccompanied their ownersinto battle . . .”

The Kate FreemanClark Art Gallery

Marshall County,Holly Springs

Gallery opened in 1962.Artist Kate Freeman Clarkleft a trust for the purpose.Gallery contains 1,200 ofher paintings, starting withthose she painted in the1890s. Also containsbooks and furniture.

Kate FreemanTrust

Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts

NA Tours by appoint-ment only, but flexi-ble. Bea Green stud-ied art under KateFreeman Clark whowas related toGreen’s family.

Clark was a versatile artist,using everything from char-coal to watercolor. Her art isexhibited under the nameFreeman Clark. The houseClark lived in is next door; itis rented out.

PalestinianGardens

George County,north of Lucedale

Rev. Harvell Jackson andwife’s version of the HolyLand, created in 1960,rests on 20 acres of land.Jericho, Bethlehem,Nazareth, and the JordanRiver are just a sample.Small gift shop.

Private, non-profit

Spirituality NA Open year-roundfrom 8-6 weekdays;1-6 Sundays. Admis-sion charged. Scenicand peaceful, tourtakes about an hour.

Rev. Harvell believed that tounderstand the Bible, peopleshould be familiar withplaces central to scripture. Itis now run by Cindy andDon Bradley, friends of theJackson children; they planto install life-size crossesand to depict Paul’s Journey.

Old Jail YalobushaCounty, WaterValley

19th century jail closed tothe public, but used formeetings by the county

Public Local history, LawEnforcement

NA Not open to thepublic

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Springdale HillsArboretum

Hinds County,Pocahontas

104 acres with trailsthrough natural areas,containing over 150species of trees, ponds forfishing, picnic areas. Ruinsof an 1830s mansion areon property.

Private Natural Resources;Architecture

Crosby Arboretum Tours seem to begiven reluctantly.

None

Old Log Cabin onNorris FamilyFarm

Smith County,Taylorsville

Partially ruined log cabinbuilt around 1848-1850;has a separate kitchen(different building) so thatentire house would notburn if kitchen caught fire.

Private VernacularArchitecture; EarlyLife; Peopling Places

Old House facingGambrell Street

Jean Norris Stennettdoes not mindvisitors looking atthe cabin.

Norris Family Farm (run byRoland Norris) has been inthe Norris family sincegreat-grandfather acquired itthrough the Homestead Act.Was honored by Jim “Buck”Ross as 100-year farm.

Old Norris House Smith County,Taylorsville

House built in 1905 bySeaborn Norris has sixrooms, a large hall, and abathroom that was addedlater.

Private Early Life; VernacularArchitecture

Old Log Cabin (StennettStreet)

Jean NorrisStennett’s sistercontrols thisproperty. Shecurrently rents thehouse out.

Part of 136 acres that hasnever been outside theNorris family. The great-grandfather came fromCovington County, to whichhe had come from SouthCarolina.

The Eaton Home Smith County,betweenTaylorsville andBay Springs

Two-story house docu-mented as being fromabout 1838, possibly older,has four original rooms.Had a kitchen on back, butthat burned down. Houseput together with hand-made nails and pegs.

Private Early Life;Architecture

Old Log Barn with FruitCellar

E. Howard Eaton isamenable to peopleseeing the house. Hereally believes thatthe house is olderthan 1838.

The house is mentioned inpapers about a 1932 WPAProject on Smith County;this is the documentationthat dates it to 1838 or 1840.

The Key BrothersAviation PictorialExhibit atMeridianRegional Airport

LauderdaleCounty, Meridian

Key Brothers set the worldendurance record in 1935.Exhibit reviews theirachievements and Meridi-an Airport’’ aviationhistory.

Public Transportation:aviation

Sparta CommunityAirport; Hunter Field(Randolph County, IL)

Visitors are not aproblem; exhibit canbe seen when airportis open.

These brothers broke theendurance record establishedby the Hunter brothers in1929.

General ArthurFox’s GreekRevival Cottage

Lawrence County,Wanilla

Built in 1848, house hasbeen restored. General Foxfought in the War of 1812.

Private Architecture; MilitaryHistory

NA Can drive by andsee.

None

Jewel Thomas’sHouse

Carroll County,Carrolton

House decorated with acollage of farming andautomotive tools.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: folk art;Working People

NA Open to visitors. Owner is a retired truckdriver and pulpwood cutter.

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Graceland Too Marshall County,Holly Springs

Antebellum home filledwith collection of ElvisPresley memorabilia.


Other Presley-relatedsites

Tours by two full-time occupantsMonday-Sunday,noon-8 p.m.

Contains original recordings,ticket stubs from lastconcert, large newspaper/video archive.

Jerry ClowerMuseum

Amite County,west of Liberty

Personal collection ofcomic memorabilia of“America’s favoritecountry comedian”accumulated over a longcareer.

Private Recreation; ExpressingCultural Values

NA Open Mon.-Fri. 10-2:30, no charge.Tours by appoint-ment, usually con-ducted by a paid tourguide. From time totime, Jerry Clowerand wife are home.

Clower grew up in AmiteCounty; played football forMississippi State. Comedianhas decades of laughs to fallback on.

Site of Battle ofCoffeeville

YalobushaCounty, nearCoffeeville

Civil War Battlefield Public Civil War Other Civil War sites Recently erectedmarker, funds areavailable for moredevelopment.

Cemetery on site; soldiersfrom both sides are buriedthere. One soldier wasburied standing up; tomb-stone resembles a chimney.

Ole Opry House Lincoln County,Brookhaven

Built around 1948 as abarn, now in use as abeauty shop, but was usedin the 1970s as OpryHouse on Saturday night.A stage was built, andgroups came from MS,AL, and LA. Advertised inVicksburg and Jacksonpapers (see “Comments”).

Private Expressing CulturalValues: music(country); Recreation

Other CountryMusic/Bluegrass sites

Now contains abeauty shop.

Earl Ward approached Har-rison Case about convertingbarn to a club so daughter,Lisa Ward, and group Hy-lites could perform. Othergroups: McCall CreekBluegrass, Cash McCool[New Orleans], Gospelartists Aaron Gillis and KenStevens.

Gertrude Smith’sBarn

CovingtonCounty, Collins

Cattle barn converted to astudio/art gallery. Containspaintings done by Smithranging from nature toabstract, but mostlyabstract.

Private Working People;Expressing CulturalValues: fine arts

Kate Freeman Clark ArtGallery

Artist lives andworks here. Can callbefore dropping by.

Has participated in severalarea events.

WhitworthCollege forWomen

Lincoln County,Brookhaven

Set of three buildings atopa hill; they once formed awomen’s college startedby Reverend M. K. Whit-worth in 1859. Date ofclosing uncertain.

Public Education NA Potential will not befulfilled untilrestoration iscompleted.

The location of the buildingson the hilltop gives them theappearance of being in aseparate world.

Town of D’Lo Simpson County;D’Lo

During WW II, 150 of town’s approximately400 citizens served in military.

Military history; localhistory

Other war-related sites Do not believe thereis a marker.

None

Prentiss City Hall Jefferson DavisCounty, Prentiss

Courthouse built in 1903and still in use.

Public Architecture; LocalGovernment

NA Can drive byanytime

None

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Prentiss Normaland IndustrialInstitute

Jefferson DavisCounty, Prentiss

Junior college founded inMay 1907 by Laurel nativeJonas Edward Johnson andhis wife, J. E. (Bertha)Johnson, a Wesson native.They had no money andtwo babies in arms.

Private Education; CulturalDiversity

William Holtzclaw,Piney Woods

Has been closedsince early 1990s; atone time tours werepermitted.

The Johnsons Organized theCommittee of One Hundred,which now is continued bycoalition of 100 blackwomen and others.

William H.HoltzclawLibrary; UticaInstitute

Hinds County,Utica

Library named after UticaInstitute Founder, which,as Utica Institute, educatedAfrican-American menand women from 1903until it merged with HindsCounty Junior College.

Public Education; CulturalDiversity

Prentiss Institute; PineyWoods; WilliamHoltzclaw House

NA Pictures of Holtzclaw hangon the wall and a bust standsin library. His autobiographyand biography are also in thelibrary.

William H.Holtzclaw House(across from UticaInstitute)

Hinds County,Utica

House of founder of UticaInstitute, who was a nativeof Alabama and aTuskegee graduate.

Public Education; CulturalDiversity

Prentiss Institute, PineyWoods; HoltzclawLibrary

House is closed andinaccessible. House,believed to havebeen a plantationhouse, was on thissite before Holtzclawfounded institute.

Utica Institute was founded1903. Holtzclaw alsoorganized the Farmer’sConference, which helpedraise black farmers’ standardof living. Like many blackcollege founders, he wasvery influential. He died in1943.

Templeton MusicMuseum andArchives

OktibbehaCounty, Starkville

Museum housed in a 1910building on campus ofMississippi State Uni-versity. Includes an exten-sive collection of antiquephonograph music boxes,recordings, sheet music,and Nipper Dogs.

Public Expressing CulturalValues: music

Other music-related sites Open by appoint-ment only.

None

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Battlefield-Belmont Mississippi Countynear East Prairie

Civil War Battlefield: Nov7, 1861, U.S. Grant’s firstCivil War engagement.Attacked town of Belmontfrom Mississippi River,forcing the Confederatesto retreat after 4 hours offighting. Overconfident,the Federals set no de-fenses and were drivenback.

Private Civil War Other Civil War sites None None

Margaret HarwellArt Museum

Poplar Bluff Fine Arts Museum in an1833 home houses a grow-ing collection of works bycontemporary Missouriartists.

Private Recreation Museum None

New MadridHistorical Museum

New Madrid Exhibits on New Madridearthquake, Civil War,Native Americans, andturn-of-the-century items

Public The River/Civil War Island No. 10, BelmontBattlefield, Burnt Mill

Museum Also an observation deckoverlooking theMississippi River

Altenburg Perry County,Altenburg

Founded in 1839 by thecongregation of TrinityLutheran Church. FirstMissouri town establishedfor purely religiouspurposes.

Varies-seeindividual sites

See individual sites See individual sites See individual sites Of seven closely groupedSaxon Lutheran settle-ments, only Altenburg,Frohna, and Uniontownremain; Dresden, Seelitz,Johannisberg, and Witten-berg declined.

Darnstaedt House Perry County,Altenburg

One-room log cabin builtc. 1839

Private Vernaculararchitecture

Other Altenburg sites None In 1840, house accom-modated Johann Darn-staedt, wife, and fourchildren.

Old TrinityLutheran Church

Altenburg, PerryCounty

One-story structure, c.1845. Vernacular con-struction, built withvarious sizes of limestone.Converted in 1867 to aschool; closed in 1969.

Private Spirituality Other Altenburg sites Building is now amuseum displayinglocal church items,including an 1845baptismal tray andthe original churchbell, cast in Spain,1761.

None

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Log Cabin College Altenburg, PerryCounty

One-story structure c.1839. First Lutheran semi-nary west of MississippiRiver; moved here in 1912from Dresden. From thisevolved ConcordiaSeminary, oldest Lutheraninstitution of higher learn-ing in Missouri.

Public Spirituality Other Altenburg sites College has beensemi-converted intoa museum withexhibits.

None

Trinity LutheranChurch

Altenburg, PerryCo.

Large church, c. 1866 Private Spirituality Other Altenburg sites Open to the public. Built from locally quarriedsandstone

St. LaurenceCatholic Church

Scott County, nearNew Hamburg

Built c. 1857 by Belgianimmigrants. Built withlocally quarried stone.Church burned during theCivil War; only a shell ofa church (just walls)remain.

Private Civil War Belmont Battlefield,Burnt Mill, Island No. 10

No visitation No comment

Iron CountyCourthouse

Iron County,Ironton

Iron County’s first andonly courthouse (enlargedin 1964.) Two-story redbrick structure with Ital-ianate influences. DuringCivil War, each side occu-pied the courthouse twice.Bullet scars still visible.

Public Civil War Belmont Battlefield,Burnt Mill

Visitors may strollgrounds, though notmuch of the interioris open to public.Courthouse is stillin use.

Also on grounds, an 1898gazebo

Shot Tower Site Jefferson County,Herculaneum

Bronze plaque Public WorkingPeople/Conflictbetween people andnature

Iron furnaces Downtown displayssome good exam-ples of late 19thcentury architec-ture.

Town named for theRoman town buried byMount Vesuvius. Townfounder Moses Austinlikened the smoke from thelead mines to that ofVesuvius. Town isevidence of Missouri’smining heritage. Towersbuilt c.1819.

Sandy CreekCovered Bridge

Jefferson County,Goldman

Built in 1872 to spanSandy Creek. Destroyedin 1886 flood; rebuilt tosame specifications.

Public Conflict betweenpeople and nature

Shot Tower site, IronFurnace

None Bridge was one of sixcovered bridges along theHillsboro-Lemay Ferry Rdthrough the mining areas toSt. Louis. Testament to theimportance of mining inthe area.

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Doolittle Phelps County Small town established in1944, named for WW IIGeneral Jimmy Doolittle.On farmland along oldRoute 66. Sights alongRoute 66 in and nearDoolittle: Aaron’s Radia-tor, Malone’s ServiceStation, EisenhowerStreet.

Private Recreation Rolla Cemetery None Appearance has notchanged a great deal; thissection of Route 66 israther well preserved.Tours might be profitable,at least a brochure toillustrate the immensecultural impact of Route66.

Topaz Mill Douglas County Built c.1893, Topaz Millis reportedly the area’soldest mill. Built on theNorth Fork of the WhiteRiver by a Choctawwoman and her husband.

Private Native Americans;Conflict betweenPeople and Nature

Shot Tower site, CowanCemetery

Maps are availableat Mountain GroveChamber ofCommerce

Mill is in an idyllic setting,seems to be begging forrestoration and a visitorcenter. There are othermills in the area.

Potosi Washington County Population 2,683. In 1797Moses Austin (father ofStephen F. Austin) ac-quired a mine and 3square miles of land as aSpanish grant. The minebecame a successful year-round operation. It includ-ed a shot tower, a leadprocessing plant, mills,and stores.

Public/Private See individual sites See individual sites Chamber of Com-merce provides mapand history of town.

Sites: Creswell FurnaceChimney, WashingtonCounty Jail, Folk artcemetery, Museum/ MosesAustin’s grave

Creswell FurnaceChimney

WashingtonCounty, Potosi

Stone ruins, built c. 1838;only chimney remains.There was Scotch hearthhere that had a dailyoutput of 2.5 tons of piglead.

Private People vs. Nature;American Economy

Shot Tower site, Ironfurnace

None None

Folk Art Cemetery WashingtonCounty, near Potosi

Behind a wood fence inthis cemetery lies thegrave of Daley Nicholas,owner of Nicholas Farms.Monument includes twolife-size plastic bulls and acarved headstone depict-ing a bull, a trailer, and atruck.


Cowan cemetery None None

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Museum/MosesAustin’s grave

WashingtonCounty, Potosi

Built c. 1833. WashingtonCounty historicalmuseum, formerly aPresbyterian Church(congregation disbanded1908). Houses local itemspertaining to local culture:medicine, music,education, mining, etc.Austin’s grave lies in theadjacent cemetery.

Public Working People;Expressing CulturalValues; People versusNature

Shot tower site, Cowancemetery, other Potosisites

None None

Washington Countyjail

County, Potosi Two-story brick jail withstone foundation and ironbars, built in 1892.

Public Peopling Places Other Potosi sites None Not much developmentavailable; this is still aworking jail; however, it isan interesting stop for awalking tour of Potosi. Notmany jails this old are stillin operation.

Downtown MarbleHill

Bollinger County Numerous buildings fromlate 19th and early 20thcenturies: Wisecarver bldg(two-story brick, 1893,across from courthouse);Conrad House (two-storygranite, c. 1900); WillMayfield College (1884-1930, several campusbuildings remain,Mayfield Dr.)

Public/Private Working people Log Cabin College Chamber of Com-merce has bro-chures on townhistories andbuildings.

The number of well-preserved buildings givesvisitors a sense of a typicalsmall Missouri town fromthe turn of the century.

Cowan Cemetery Wayne County Rural cemetery that fea-tures a tall, carved 1870shaft, which marks themass grave of seven Con-federate soldiers shot byFederal forces on May 28,1865. Testament to thefierce sectional conflict.

Private Native Americans;Civil War

Burnt Mill, BelmontBattlefield

Cemetery is fairlyisolated.

Land was originally settledby Native Americans, thenby the R.D. Cowan family.Brochures seem a viableoption; should be availablein town.

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Island No. 10 Scott County, NewMadrid

No longer exists; island 2miles long, 0.5 miles wideblocked all river trafficduring Civil War, washeavily protected by afloating battery of guns.Federal Gen. Pope wasordered to attack island.

Civil War Cowan Cemetery,Belmont Battlefield

New MadridMuseum

With 20,000 men, Popetook the town and islandby cutting a 12-milechannel west from theMississippi River tobayous emptying into ariver near New Madrid. OnApril 18, 1862, theConfederates surrendered.

Catholic Cemetery WashingtonCounty, nearSullivan

Local lore claims thatToussaint Charbonneau isburied here. Charbon-neauwas the famous trapper,husband of Sacajawea,who served as guide andinterpreter for the Lewisand Clark expedition.

Private Native Americans;Expressing CulturalValues

Cowan Cemetery None. Markerneeded; the Lewisand Clark expedi-tion began inMissouri.

Charbonneau was the hus-band of Sacajawea, a Sho-shoni Indian who mediatedbetween explorers and In-dians during the expedi-tion. She is honored bymore monuments than anyother Native Americanwoman.

Murphey’s FurnaceChimney

WashingtonCounty, nearWashington StatePark

Pyramid-shaped rockchimney 40 feet tall marksthe location of a leadsmelting furnace built c.1848 by Irish immigrants.

Public Conflict betweenpeople and nature;American Economy;Cultural Diversity:Irish settlers

Shot Tower site, Ironfurnace

None; perhapsworth a brochure

Chimney is a testament tothe importance of miningin the area, as well as thevaried ethnic groups thatsettled here.

Old Mines Washington County Early lead diggings wereconducted at this site byCreoles c. 1726. Villageof Old Mines establishedc. 1802. Never incorpor-ated, the town today islocated in the originalmining concession, anarrow strip of landparalleling SR 21 and OldMines Creek.

Public/Private Cultural Diversity:Creole settlers

Murphey’s FurnaceChimney, Catholiccemetery, St. JoachimCatholic Church

None As recently as 1941,Creole customs andlanguage were still evident.Supposedly these weresome of Missouri’s firstmines.

St. JoachimCatholic Church

WashingtonCounty, just westof Old Mines

Brick church with win-dows and doors in acruciform design, built c.1828; restored in 1945.Original belfry, spire andstained glass windows.Adjacent cemetery hasheadstones with Frenchinscriptions.

Private Spirituality; CulturalDiversity: Creolesettlers; ExpressingCultural Values

Odd Fellow cemetery, St.Mary of the Barrens,Murphey’s FurnaceChimney

None Cemetery had dividedsections for Irish, slaves,freedmen and NativeAmericans. Near cemetery,two restored 19th centurylog cabins chinked withsections of split log and amixture of clay and straw.Outside are original Frenchbread ovens.

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Grace LutheranChurch

Perry County,Uniontown

Church, vernaculararchitecture, built 1876.Brick frame and animposing steeple. Oldcemetery behind church.

Public Spirituality; CulturalDiversity: GermanLutheran settlers

St. Joachim CatholicChurch, Old Mines

None Uniontown is one of sevenclosely grouped Lutherancommunities. Townsitesettled 1839 by 15 chartermembers and called thePaitzdorf Settlement.Church’s present nameadopted 1929 (was OldLutheran Church ofPaitzdorf for 90 years).

Tower Rock/Superstition Rock

Perry County, nearWhittenburg. Rockis a short distancefrom the banks ofMississippi River;site is in the river.

Large rock formation.When river is low, visitorsmay walk to rock. Duringlast century, settlers calledthis “superstition rock.”

Public The river Sites in Altenburg None An interpretive sign orbrochure would help toexplain this story, which isindicative of the fears andbeliefs of early settlers.

Odd FellowsCemetery

Mississippi County,Charleston

City cemetery. Buriedhere: Robert AnthonyHatcher (1819-1886),Missouri state representa-tive, major in ConfederateArmy, representative inConfederate Congress.

Public Civil War St. Joachim CatholicChurch, Burnt Mill,Island No. 10

Charleston Cham-ber of Commerce

None

City Cemetery Cape GirardeauCounty, CapeGirardeau

Cemetery features gravesof settlers and prominenttownspeople.

Public Cultural Diversity;Expressing CulturalValues

St. Joachim Catholiccemetery, Grace Lutheranchurch, Odd Fellowscemetery

Cape GirardeauCham-ber ofCommerce

Buried here: AlexanderBuckner (1785-1833),Missouri state senator,member of Missouri StateLegislature.

Poplar Bluff Butler County, onU.S. Hwy 67

Named for a dense copseof yellow poplars thatearly travelers used as aland-mark. Grew rapidlyas a trading and loggingcenter. Many sites intown. Historical Museum:early 20th century build-ing, houses, logging-related tools and localitems.

Public/Private People versus Nature;VernacularArchitecture

Margaret Harwell ArtMuseum

City and historicalpreservation groupshave maintained allsites and interpretthem.

Davis House: Folk Vic-torian, c. 1889, 19thcentury furnishings, 522Cherry Street. SpurlockCabin, c. 1900, turn ofcentury furnishings, W.Davis at 13th Street. FriscoDepot, 1927, No longer inuse; caboose and baggagecar display, railroadmemorabilia.

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St. Mary of theBarrens. Many siteson grounds: Churchof the Assumption,Rare Book Museum,Rosati’s Cabin, andSeminary

Perry County Museum includes excerptsfrom a Guttenberg Bible.Seminary founded byVenetian missionaries in1818. Oldest institution ofhigher learning west of theMississippi River.

Public Spirituality; CulturalDiversity: RomanCatholic missionaries

Grace Lutheran Church,St. Joachim CatholicChurch

Museum Perry County Courthousefeatures a Civil War statueof a Union soldier honor-ing the 1800 veterans ofthe county, donated bysons of the veterans. MostSouthern towns pay hom-age only to Confederateveterans.

Rolla Cemetery Phelps County,Rolla

Buried here are towns-people and Civil War vet-erans. Large headstonemarked “Broadway” is thegrave of a Gypsy whodied in Rolla alongside Rt.66 here in 1964. Sincedeath of “Broadway,”many area gypsies (see“Com-ments”).

Public Vernacular creativity;Cultural Diversity: theGypsy community

Cowan cemetery, Folk artcemetery

None Many area gypsies havebeen buried here. Broad-way’s grave is adornedwith carved wooden birds,flowers, and other vernac-ular art.

Conical andSlaughter Sinks

Phelps County,near Rolla

Two of the most spectacu-lar sinkholes in Missouri.Conical; separated fromroad by a chain link fence,is approx. 100 ft deep and300 ft in diameter.Slaughter, adjacent toConical, 150 yards northof the road (see“Comments”).

Private Brimstone Museum, IronFurnaces

Sinkholes and cavesare prominent inMissouri, more sothan in any otherstate. The state’sdistinctive geologyhas prodigiouslycontributed to itshistory and culture.

Slaughter Sink is about0.25 mile long and 175 ft.deep. Any developmentmight disrupt the solitudeof the site.

Burnt Mill St. GenevieveCounty

Ruins of Stone Mill, builtc. 1800, by Francois ValleII. Mill burned in 1864during the Civil War. Re-maining walls are 65 fthigh.

Private Civil War Island No. 10, Cowancemetery

None Part of the site’s distinctionis its isolation.

ExperimentalMines, Universityof Missouri, RollaCampus

Phelps County, inRolla

19 acres; begun in 1914on 7 acres. Two under-round mines and twosmall quarries are main-tained for instruction andresearch.

Public People versus Nature;Building the AmericanEconomy

Old Mines, Shot TowerSite

Guided toursavailable

University of Missouri -Rolla was created in 1871as the University ofMissouri School of Minesand Metallurgy. Testimonyto the importance of themining industry in thestate’s history.

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Dillard Mill Crawford County,near Dillard

Mill at the confluence ofHuzzah and IndianCreeks, where a rock damcreates a waterfall thatfalls into a millpond. Builtc. 1900, restored to work-ing order. This red framegristmill (situated on 132acres) ground corn until1960. Original machinery.

Public People versus Nature;Building the AmericanEconomy; VernacularArchitecture

Burnt Mill, Steen’s SyrupMill, Topaz Mill

Picnic areas, trails,tours.

None

Route 66 sites inSullivan, MO

Franklin County Two Rt. 66 sites �TheShamrock Motel, con-structed of hand-cut stone,and a McDonald’s restau-rant remodeled as amemorial to Rt. 66

Private Recreation Rolla cemetery These are sitesalong a thorough-fare that has as-sumed mythicproportions.

The Shamrock is importantas a cultural site along thishistoric road.

EmersonPark/Grant’s Statue

Iron County,Irontown

Park. First landscaped forthe 1867 Lindsay-Emerson House, now partof St. Marie du LacCatholic Church. An 1886bronze statue of a Unionsoldier was erected here(see “Comments”).

Private Spirituality; CivilWar; ExpressingCultural Values

Iron County Courthouse,Rolla Cemetery

Statue bears adescriptive marker.

Statue was erected byveterans of the 21st Illinoisto commemorate the spotwhere Grant received hiscommission as general.After his promotion, Grantwas put in charge of theDistrict of SoutheastMissouri (which includedSouthern Illinois).

Greenville, MO Wayne County Town has population of437, but adjacent to townare remnants of “OldGreenville.”

Public People versus Nature Brimstone Museum; massgrave for hurricanevictims

Map is available atCorps of Engineersoffice in nearbyWappapello, MO.Ruins of towncoupled with mapevoke a sense of theloss experienced bycitizens. Visitorsenses historicaltension betweenlocals (heritage,pride) and govern-ment.

During Civil War, Green-ville was fought over andalmost half of the townstructures were destroyed.In 1938 the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineersrelocated the town whilebuilding dam to formWappapello Lake.

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Iron Furnaces Phelps County,near Newburg

Site of Ozark Ironworks,established 1873. An 1833financial panic broughtironworks to ruin. Twolarge furnaces remain,along with the ruins of theironworks’ brick adminis-tration building.

Public People versus Nature;Building the AmericanEconomy

Brimstone Museum, ShotTower site

Interpretive plaque During the 1930s theAlhambra Grotto of St.Louis, a degree of theMasonic Lodge, remodeledthe administration buildingas resort for its members.Burned in 1970.

Old MountainGrove

Wright County,town of MountainGrove.

Remnants of town wellmark the site of OldMountain Grove. Asrailroads came through thearea, various closelyspaced communitiessprang up on the Wright-Texas County borders inanticipation of commerce.

Public Working People;Peopling Places

Greenville, MO Chamber ofCommerce.

Town square dedicated in1915 by Vice President T.R. Marshall, rededicated1987 by V.P. George Bush.Town’s demise is evidenceof fierce competition inarea near to railroad.Towns of Mountain Groveand Eyan were establishedon neutral ground.

Boomland Mississippi County,Charleston

Fireworks emporium cumdepartment store, displaysa 1974 and 1975 LincolnContinental Mark IV, oneof which belonged toElvis Presley, the other tohis girlfriend LindaThompson. Also a cream-colored 1976 CadillacElvis bought for a Denverpoliceman.

Private Recreation; Music Municipal Auditorium inShreveport, FrankieJean’s Pik Quick

Highly developedfor visitor use.

Elvis merchandise sold.

Vera Cruz, MO Douglas County Cemetery and originaltown remnants (a rockbuilding and the dam of aformer mill)


Old Mountain Grove,MO; Greenville, MO

None Vera Cruz was the countyseat 1857-1869. Boundarychanges of DouglasCounty led to bitterrivalries for county seatthat continued into 20thcentury. Many courthouseswere burned and courtrecords stolen.

AbandonedSharecropper’sCabin

Pemiscot County,Wardell

Abandoned dwelling 20feet from road

Public Working People;Building the AmericanEconomy; VernacularArchitecture

New Madrid HistoricalMuseum

None; surroundingland still farmed bypresent owner.

House is indicative ofsharecropping system andthe living conditionsfostered by such a system.

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Dunklin CountyMuseum

Dunklin County,Kennet

Contains the Birthrightletters, a collection ofcorrespondence betweenformer slaves and theirowners, as well as artifactsdetailing the county’shistory and culture.

Public Race relations;Slavery

New Madrid HistoricalMuseum

Museum Contains a record-sizealligator gar.

Hornersville SwampConservation Area

Dunklin County,near Hornersville

This 3,166-acre preservewith a variety of localfauna provides an exampleof how the Missouri Boot-hill appeared before thecreation of the Little RiverDrainage District. .

Public People versus Nature;Manipulating theEnvironment; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

Shot Tower Site, OldMines, MO

MissouriDepartment ofConservationmaintains area.Hunting, fishing,hiking, camping,nature study, etc.,available.

Little River Drainage Dis-trict, created in 1905, is thelargest privately fundeddrainage system in theworld. Its creation con-verted the boothill fromswamp to farmland.

Skyline AutomobileLoop

Carter County,Near Van Buren

Route gives broad, scenicviews of hardwood-pineridges, hollows, the townof Van Buren, granite-topped Stegall Mountain,and a 1,000-foot ridge.

Public Recreation New Madrid HistoricalMuseum

None Good example of ruggedterrain of Eastern Ozarks.

Indian Trail StateFish Hatchery

Dent County, nearSalem

Facility is basically un-changed since CCC builtit in 1938. Water issupplied by gravity-assisted pipes fromBlackwell Lake. No wateractivities on lake.

Public Native Americanissues; Agriculture

Cowan Cemetery Available forvisitors.

Signs for a section of theTrail of Tears, whichpassed through the presentpark.

Harlin HouseMuseum

Howell County,West Plains

Museum is housed in an1889 vernacular architec-ture building; contains anart gallery, as well as amuseum detailing historyand culture of the area.

Private Recreation; Music;Sports

Meadows Art Museum;Moses Austin’s grave

Museum Contains artifacts andmemorabilia of formerresidents, such as baseballplayers Preacher Roe andBill Virdon, and entertain-ers Porter Waggoner andJan Howard.

Mine La Motte Madison County By 1725, Phillip Renaultwas producing 1,500pounds of lead here perday in one of Missouri’sfirst mines. Evidence ofmining activity can beseen along SR OO, whichruns through town.

Private Working People;People versus Nature;Building the AmericanEconomy

Old Mines, MO; ShotTower Site

Interpretive marker None

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Wilderness, MO Oregon County Small town composed of aformer WPA Folk school(now a church), one gro-cery store, and a formergas station. Land original-ly bought by a CatholicChurch in Old Mines,MO, (continued in“comments”)

Private Diversity of populace(Irish laborers)

Rolla Cemetery None Land originally bought forIrish railroad workers andimmigrants affected by thePanic of 1857; 40 familiessettled in area by 1859, butforced to flee by maraudersduring Civil War. Townexists today due to thelumber industry.

Rockbridge, MO Ozark County Former county seat ofOzark County. Stillstanding: a 3-story framemill, a restored 1903 bank,and an 1894 general store.Site is part of a fish andgame complex.


Dillard Mill Visitors are wel-come to tourbuildings, butowner’s primaryconcern is runninga fishing and gamepreserve.

None

CentervilleCourthouse

Reynolds CountyCenterville

One of Missouri’s oldestcourthouses still in use.Built 1874. Vernacularclassical revival architec-ture; made of handmadebricks. Set in a parklikeenclosure and fenced by astone wall.

Public Vernaculararchitecture

Rolla Cemetery Courthouse is stillin use, but groundsare open to public.

Original courthouse des-troyed in Civil War. Sever-al polished granite markershonor the citizens of Rey-nolds Co. who have servedin wars since WW I. Also,the old jail is adjacent tocourthouse and is currentlyused for record storage.

Current RiverHeritage Museum

Ripley County,Doniphan

This 7,000-sq. ft. museum,established 1922, containsextensive county historicalrecords, as well as histori-cal artifacts and area artsand crafts.

Public Meadows art Museum,Museum/Moses Austin’sgrave

Museum One of few museums inarea still in operation after70 years

Stoddard CountyMuseum

Stoddard CountyBloomfield

An old red brick churchhouses historical items:tools, furniture, and one ofonly three existing copiesof the first edition of TheStars and Stripes.

Public Civil War Rolla Cemetery, BurntMill

Museum Plaque at courthouse. TheStars and Stripes is theofficial newspaper of theOverseas Dept. of Defense.First printed in Bloomfieldon Nov 9, 1861, by fourFederal soldiers.

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Bonne TerreMemorial Library

St. FrancoisCounty, BonneTerre

Italian Renaissance archi-tecture, built c. 1905. Ex-quisite detailing. Builtfrom dressed limestone bySt. Joseph Lead Co.president Dwight Jones.

Public Recreation Shot Tower Site, CreswellFurnace

Visitors welcome;information detail-ing library’s historyavailable inside.Includes a marblefireplace, an oakinterior and an 18thcentury grandfatherclock.

Bonne Terre was once asuccessful lead-miningtown. St. Joseph Lead Co.became the largest miningcompany in southeastMissouri by 1900.

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Tennessee RiverFresh Water PearlFarm Tour &Museum

Benton County Only facility of its kind inthe U.S.; very important toworld pearl production.Growing river industry.

Private �aquaculture pearlfarm.

Developing theAmerican Economy;resource extraction

Tennessee River FolkLife Museum

Visitor center andmuseum

Admission charged; PearlFarm open April throughNovember. Must call forreservation to take tour.Pearl Museum open year-round.

Tennessee RiverFolklife Museum

Benton County,Nathan BedfordForrest State Park

Center has collection ofdocuments relating theexperience of river peopleafter the development ofthe Tennessee ValleyAuthority. Documentsdeal with peoples’ recov-ery and adaptation to anew life.

State Transforming theEnvironment; TVAprojects

Tennessee River FreshWater PearlFarm/Museum

Visitor center No admission charge.Open daily from August toNovember; center also haslibrary with video andaudio collection.

Cary’s SorghumMill

Camden; BentonCounty

Sorghum productionfacility. Works on sameprinciple as mule andhorse powered equipment.Sorghum products avail-able for purchase.

Private Agriculture; Expres-sing Cultural Valuesthrough foods.

NA None. People stopfrom time to timeand talk withowners.

Mill harvests sorghum andproduces syrup Septemberthrough mid-October.Interested persons need tocall the mill to place orderor to find out when thesorghum is being milled.Supply of sorghumdepends on weather.

Patsy ClineMemorial

Camden; BentonCounty

Benton County is the siteof the plane crash thatclaimed the lives of PatsyCline and members of herband.

City Expressing CulturalValues; Music

NA Chamber ofCommerce, BentonCounty

Visitors need to callBenton County Chamber ofCommerce to confirm dateof event.

JohnsonvilleReenactment


Civil War reenactmentcommemorating Forrest’sloss at Pilot’s Knob, ariver fortification.

State Civil War; ExpressingCultural Values

National Battlefield StatePark

Visitor Center Event is held in October.

T. J. Whitfield’sBraille Boat


Whitfield was a local riverfisherman. The Brailleboat was equipped withhooks used to harvestmussels.

State River life;Transportation

Nathan Bedford ForrestState Park

Visitor Center Center contains manyaudio and video recordingsdepicting the life of thepeople who made theirhomes and livings on theriver.

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Maggie Lee SayrePhotographCollection at theTennessee RiverFolklife Museum

Benton Co. Maggie Lee Sayre grewup on a shanty boat in theriver. She recorded her lifethrough a black and whitecamera. The images are agreat record of river life.

Tennessee RiverFolklife Museum

Tennessee River;Expressing CulturalValues; People of theDelta

Nathan Bedford ForrestState Park

Visitor Center Maggie Lee Sayre is deafand unable to speak, agreat resource for folklifeinterpretation.

Thornton’s TradingPost

Benton County Trading post similar to aturn-of-the century mer-cantile. Specializes inhorseware and has Amishand antique carriages ondisplay.

Private Cultural Diversity;Transportation

Other Benton Countysites

Retail facility Area at one time had anAmish community, but itno longer exists. Thorntonhas a manufacturingfacility to produce his owntack.

Oak Hill Cemetery Huntingdon;Carroll County

Burial site of Gov. GordonBrowning

City State Politics; PublicEducation

Gordon WeaverBrowning Museum,McKenzie

Museum, or mayuse Carroll CountyChamber of Com-merce

None

Gordon WeaverBrowning Museum/Carroll CountyHistorical Society

McKenzie; CarrollCounty

Museum contains Brown-ing memorabilia andgenealogical resources.

Private State Politics; PublicEducation; ExpressingCultural Values

Oak Hill Cemetery Museum Brownig’s major politicalcontribution was to thepublic education system ofTennessee; Served in bothworld wars; Gubernatorialterms were in the 30s and50s .

“The world’s largestcoon hunt”

Parsons; DecaturCounty

An annual event held toraise money for St. Jude’shospital. Participants treethe coons but do not killthem. The hunt is basedon a point system.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; Recreation

NA May use DecaturCounty Chamber ofCommerce

This is a large event for thetown of Parsons that hashelped raise $1 million forSt. Jude’s. The organiza-tion is rebuilding facilitiesdestroyed in a 1995 fire.

B & F Fish Market Parsons; DecaturCounty

Local market where riverfishermen come to selltheir catfish. Market is apoint of processing,shipping, and retailing.

Private Developing theAmerican Economy,Resource Extraction;Expressing CulturalValues; Fishing as anIndustry

NA Employees taketime to talk withtourists; the site isaccustomed to hav-ing visitors.

Parsons is a town of 2,000situated on the TennesseeRiver. Fishing is a signifi-cant industry. Local rivercatfish business threatenedby catfish farming.

Ferry Boat Parsons; DecaturCounty

Ferry boat has up to six-car capacity and presents achance to experience anantiquated form of trans-portation.

Private Transportation; Manvs. Nature

“World’s Largest CoonHunt”

May use DecaturCounty Chamber ofCommerce

Group is currently rebuild-ing facilities.

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Dr. Walter E. DavidWildlife Museum

Dyer CountyDyersburg StateCommunityCollege, GloverBuilding

Collection of everyspecimen of duck found inMississippi flyway

State Mississippi river & itsdrainage systems;Human interactionwith environment

Dyersburg Army Air Base Dyer CountyChamber ofCommerce

Museum is open daily; fullaccessibility for personswith disabilities; no admis-sion charge.

K & N Rootbeer Dyersburg, DyerCounty

Restaurant with 50s/60slook; establishment is alocal hangout. Ownermakes his own root beerand offers barbecue, corndogs, and other short orderitems. Still has carhops.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; food

NA Restaurant Has a 30-year plus history.

T. G. ShepherdBoyhood Home

Humboldt, GibsonCounty

Shepherd is a countrymusic celebrity.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; music

NA Humboldt museum.Visitors may seetown that shapedShepherd’s earlylife.

None

Strawberry Festival- Historical museum


Collection of local mem-orabilia, exhibits on towndevelopment, evolution oftelephone, collection/exhibit relating to WW IIBrig. Gen. Claude Adams.

City Southern TownDevelopment;Expressing CulturalValues; festivals;military; agriculture

NA Self-guided None

University ofTennessee – WestTennessee Agri-culture Museum

Milan, GibsonCounty

Museum interprets theagriculture communityfrom 1850-1950.

State Developing theAmerican Economy;agriculture

Carroll County BrowningMuseum and Oak HillCemetery

Site offers guidedtours.

Facilities include a frontier,agricultural community(church, schoolhouse,blacksmith, private homes,etc.) horsedrawn agricul-tural equipment and birth-lace of GovernorBrowning.

Davy CrockettCabin

Rutherford, GibsonCounty

Reproduction of cabinincorporating some of theoriginal timbers

Private Peopling Places; FolkHeroes

Burial site of JohnWesley Crockett, son ofDavy

Cabin is museum Cabin is a reproduction,including timbers fromCrockett’s last Tennesseehome. His mother is buriedon the grounds.

City of Rutherford Gibson County City hosts Davy CrockettDays annually on the firstof October.

City Expressing CulturalValues;- music;festivals; storytelling;frontier settlement

Davy Crockett Cabin Gibson CountyChamber ofCommerce

Festival began in 1968 as aRutherford Centennialcelebration. The eventincludes pioneer trade craftdemonstrations, old-timestring band music, and talltale contests.

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Ames Plantation Grand Junction,Hardeman County

Plantation hosts theNational Field Dog TrialChampionships for birddogs.

Private Recreation;Expressing CulturalValues

National Bird Dog Hall ofFame

Plantation is openfor tours on the 4thThursday fromMarch throughOctober, othertimes by appoint-ment.

None

National Bird DogMuseum & FieldTrial Hall of Fame

Grand Junction,Hardeman County

Museum exhibits bird dogart, wildlife murals, gamebird & wildlife specimens.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; recreation

Ames Plantation Tour of exhibits None

The LittleCourthouse

Bolivar, HardemanCounty

Log courthouse built in1824 served as firstcourthouse of HardemanCounty. In 1827 it becamea private home and wasremodeled. One of the fewsurviving examples of logcourthouse structures.

Association forthe Preservationof TennesseeAntiquities

The Pillars NA Chamber of Com-merce of HardemanCounty

Open by appointment; cancall Hardeman CountyChamber of Commerce.

The Pillars Bolivar, HardemanCounty

Construction dates to1826. Maj. John HoustonBills purchased it in 1831.One of the original settlersof west Tennessee, Billswas a member of a groupthat surveyed and estab-lished the territory. TheBorders house is beingrestored.

Association forthe Preservationof TennesseeAntiquities

Peopling Places;effects of explorationand settlement;Architecture

The Little Register Chamber ofCommerce

Visitation is by appoint-ment; must contact Harde-man County Chamber ofCommerce. House is alsoassociated with SamHouston, President JamesK. Polk, and other promi-nent 19th centurypoliticians

Tennessee RiverWaterway Museum

Harden County Museum’s collection cen-ters on Tennessee Riverbeing used for powergeneration.

Federal Transforming theEnvironment; TVAprojects

NA Self-guided tour. Pickwick Dam is part ofTVA. These projects hadmajor effects on the landuse and people of this area.Museum and tours are free.

Nutbush/TinaTurner HeritageResource Center

Brownsville,Haywood County

Center has a collection ofvideo and audio record-ings of Ike and TinaTurner; also has a collec-tion of musical recordingsof early blues, country,and gospel artists from thearea.


Nutbush Tina TurnerTour

Resource centerserves as visitorcenter.

To schedule a visit tocenter or find out date offestival, can call 901-772-4265 or 901-772-8157.

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Tina Turnerchildhood hometour

Nutbush, HaywoodCounty

Various sites associatedwith the childhood of TinaTurner, music celebrity


Tina Turner ResourceCenter

Resource Center A building is beingrefurbished to display anexhibit on Tina Turner.Although house is nolonger standing, one maygain a sense of TinaTurner’s childhoodexperiences and influences.

Lincoln Museum/Haywood CountyMuseum

Brownsville,Haywood County

County museum coveringthe history of the area andthe people; also has col-lection of AbrahamLincoln memorabilia.

City Expressing CulturalValues; Civil War

NA Museum Collection contains photosof community, warmemorabilia, agriculturaltools, etc.

Battle of Parker’sCrossroads

Parker’sCrossroads,Henderson County

Self-guided tour of battlearea. Tour consists ofseven markers with textdescribing battle.

NA Civil War NA Cotton PatchRestaurant serves asinformation center& museum.

None

Paris, TN Henry County onTennessee River

Town hosts the “World’sLargest Fish Fry”

City Expressing CulturalValues; food (catfish)

Kentucky Lake, Old CityCemetery

Chamber ofCommerce

In last week of April, townhosts event includingparade, catfish races,rodeo, etc.

Old City Cemetery Paris, HenryCounty

Cemetery is burial site ofJohn Dewitt ClintonAtkins. Atkins was Ten-nessee’s delegate to theConfederate ProvisionalCongress and also itsrepresentative in theConfederate Congress.

City Civil War NA Paris/ HenryCounty Chamber ofCommerce

None

Old City Cemetery Paris, HenryCounty

Burial site of John WesleyCrockett, son of David“Davy” Crockett

City Folk legends of theSouth

Davy Crockett Cabin inRutherford

Paris/Henry CountyChamber ofCommerce

None

Reelfoot Lake StatePark Museum

Tiptonville, LakeCounty

Museum exhibits aspectsof natural and culturalchange in area.

State Transforming theEnvironment; naturalactivity; humaninteraction

Calhoun Boatworks Interpretive Center Interpretive focus is onnatural and culturalchanges of lake and people.Natural focus:-1811-12new Madrid earthquake,siltation problems. Culturalfocus: commercializationof hunting and fishing

Reelfoot Lake StatePark


Lake, created by the 1811-12 earthquake, is Tennes-see’s only natural lake.

State Transforming theEnvironment; NewMadrid earthquake of1811-12; Recreation

NA Visitor center atmuseum

Reelfoot lake is the winterhome for ducks and geese.Park also boasts an Ameri-can eagle population.

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Calhoun Boatworks Tiptonville, LakeCounty, acrossfrom Reelfoot lakeState Park

Builds Reelfoot StumpJumper; a type of boatused on Reelfoot lake

Private Transportation Reelfoot Lake State Park Boat workswelcomes visitors,who can also usevisitor center atPark.

Calhoun’s work has beenexhibited at SmithsonianInstitution and at the 1982world’s fair in Knoxville,Tennessee

Saltillo HistoricDistrict and Ferry

Saltillo, HardinCounty

One of a few remainingriver ferries, Saltillo is anearly river town dating tocirca 1840. Town hasexamples of farmhouses,Greek revival and Italian-ate architecture.

NA Transforming theenvironment;Transportation;Architecture

NA Harden CountyChamber ofCommerce

Fee is charged for ferrytransportation.

Tennessee RiverMuseum

Savannah, HardenCounty

City museum housingcollections of local history

City The River; Managainst Nature,Developing theAmerican Economy;Transportation;Expressing CulturalValues; music

NA Collection has re-sources on Indianculture, early riversociety, freshwatermussel harvesting,Civil War.

NA

Cherry Mansion Savannah, HardinCounty

1830s house built onformer Indian mound.Queenie Haley, grand-mother of Alex Haley,worked here near turn ofthe century.

Private Architecture, SouthernLiterary Figures andInfluences

City Cemetery; AlexHaley house in Henning,TN

Grounds are open topublic; building isnot open for tours.

House, its inhabitants, andsurroundings inspiredAmerican writer AlexHaley.

Catfish Capital ofthe World

Savannah, HardinCounty, on theTennessee River

River Town that is richwith fishing opportunities.The town’s big draw iscatfish.

City Expressing CulturalValues; food, music,festivals, andpageants.

Tennessee River Museum city visitors center City hosts large tourna-ment, catfish & hush puppycookoff, Miss Catfishpageant, and gospel sing.

City Cemetery Savannah, HardinCounty

Cemetery for the town ofSavannah. Burial site ofAlex Haley, Sr., andQueenie Haley, grand-parents of author AlexHaley.

City Expressing CulturalValues -literature andstorytelling

Cherry Mansion, AlexHaley House

City Visitor Center City Cemetery is burial siteof Hank Deberry, BrooklynDodgers catcher, andElizabeth Patterson, baby-sitter on the “I Love Lucy”show. These people grewup in Hardin County. Un-fortunately, their childhoodhouses are not standing.

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Red Sulphur Bed &Breakfast

Hardin County House dates to 1843,originally the Red SulphurSprings Hotel.

Private Civil War; VernacularArchitecture; folkfigures

Hardin County sites Bed/breakfast. Cancall CountyChamber ofCommerce forphone number.

Served as an early healthspa because of the abun-dance of sulphur springs.Hideout spot for Frank &Jesse James in 1870s. Wasused as a hospital in theCivil War and as lodgingfacilities during the Battleof Shiloh.

Harbor-PittsCompany

Savannah, HardinCounty

1910 general store built onthe banks of theTennessee River is still inoperation.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; Literature andStorytelling;Recreation

Hardin County sites Store serves ascenter

Owners host storytellingnights. Can call to inquireif any events arescheduled.

Henning - JimHickman’sHometown

Henning,Lauderdale County

Hometown of baseballplayer Jim Hickman

City Recreation, baseball Lauderdale County sites Lauderdale CountyChamber ofCommerce

Can see town in whichHickman grew up, sitesassociated with his child-hood.

Alex Haley HouseMuseum


House where Haley liveduntil his preteen years andthen spent summers. Itwas here that he heard oralhistories of ancestors andAfrican roots, whichinspired his novel“Roots.”

Private Expressing CulturalValues; Literature andStorytelling

Cherry Mansion, CityCemetery of Savannah,

Museum None

Ripley, Tennessee Lauderdale County Site of the LauderdaleCounty annual TomatoFestival

City Expressing CulturalValues; agriculture

Lauderdale Cellars, otherLauderdale County sites

Lauderdale CountyChamber ofCommerce

Festival highlights Ripley’sagricultural community.Tomatoes, one of the area’smore important crops, areknown for their quality.

Lauderdale Cellars Ripley, LauderdaleCounty

Winery specializing intomato wine

Private Expressing CulturalValues; agriculture

NA Gift Shop Lauderdale Cellars pro-duces a unique product inits tomato wine. It alsooffers wines made fromwatermelon, pear, appleand blueberry.

John Lee “SonnyBoy” Williamsongravesite

Jackson, MadisonCounty

Cemetery for the OldBlairs Chapel church;John Lee “Sonny Boy”Williamson is buried here.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; religion,music

Tied to Shannon Street inJackson

Madison CountyChamber ofCommerce

None

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Rock TempleChurch of God inChrist


Brick church buildingwhere blues singer Mabel“Big Maybelle” Smithattended as a child.


John Lee “Sonny Boy”Williamson’s gravesite


Building is basically thesame structure as whenSmith used it. Some of thearea has been cleared fordevelopment.

Shannon Street,Jackson


Shannon Street is anintegral part of John Lee“Sonny Boy” William-son’s music.

City Expressing CulturalValues; music

Sites tied to “Sonny Boy”Williamson and MabelSmith


Undergoing revitalization.

Shannon StreetMusic Festival


Festival celebratesJackson’s blues heritage.

City Festivals and bluesmusic

Sites tied to “Sonny Boy”Williamson and MabelSmith


None

Buford PusserHome & Museum

Adamsville,McNairy County

Home of Pusser preservedto period just before hisdeath

City Interpretation ofTennessee lawenforcement officer

NA Museum Interprets family and homeof County Sheriff BufordPusser, who led fight to ridcounty of prostitution, ille-gal gambling, and moon-shine. Movie Walking Tallwas about Pusser.

Flippens Fruit Farm& Hillbilly Barn

Troy, ObionCounty

Family-owned fruit farm(apples and peaches)produces the “World’sBest Fruit Pies.”

Private Peopling Places;Agriculture;Adaptability/Versatility; Expressing CulturalValues; food

Reelfoot Lake Site has fruitmarket, restaurant.Business is familyowned andoperated.

Flippens established thisbusiness in the 1950s.Adapted from cotton tofruit.

Dixie Gun Works /Old Car Museum

Union City, ObionCounty

Museum’s collection in-cludes antique guns, cars,electrical equipment, anda log cabin ca. 1850s.

Private Developing theAmeri-can Economy;technol-ogy;weaponry; auto-mobile; electricity;Architecture

NA Museum Collection begun by ownerof Dixie Gun Works.

Davies Manor Brunswick, ShelbyCounty

Two-story log house builtbefore 1807 by Indianchief. Purchased in 1838by Davies family andbecame large plantation.

Davies ManorAssociation

Peopling Places;Expressing CulturalValues; VernacularArchitecture

NA NA Working on documentingthe history of the house.House is being reinter-preted to the 1850 period

Heritage Railroad &Memphis Transpor-tation Museum traindisplay

Colliersville,Shelby County

Museum exhibits historictrain cars from the 1910sto the 1940s.

City Transportation:railroad

NA Must call for anappointment to seemuseum.

None

Burkle Estate /Slavehaven

Memphis, ShelbyCounty

1849 house used as a stopon Underground Railroad.House was built byGerman immigrants.

Private Peopling Places; CivilWar; Slavery

NA Tour byappointment

Must call for reservation tosee house

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Center for SouthernFolklore


Organization documentingthe people and traditionsof the South

Private, nonprofit People of the Delta NA Gift shop Interprets various aspectsand people of the Delta andMemphis areas; conductstours of Beale Street.

Charlie Vergo’sRendezvous


Restaurant specializing incharbroiled ribs begun in1948 by Greek immigrant;blends Greek and South-ern cuisines.


NA Restaurant Restaurant is well knownin and out of Memphisarea.

Coletta’s Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Italian restaurant estab-lished in 1923 servesbarbecued pizza.


NA Restaurant None

Cotton RowWalking Tour


Tour consists of 10 siteslocated between WagnerPlace and Monroe Street,downtown Memphis.

Public/Private Agriculture: cotton’simpact on the 20thcentury

NA Memphis VisitorsBureau

Cotton Row has been thecotton commercial tradecenter for the centralMississippi Valley. Mostbuildings date to the late19th or early 20th cen-uries.

Crying AngelCemetery


Cemetery used by olderfamilies of the area. Onegrave is marked by anelaborately carved life-sized figure of an angelwith swept-back wingsand its head bowed inprayer.

Private Cemetery architecture NA Memphis Visitors’Bureau

Located in a lonely spotfrom Millington. Nightvisitors have claimed tohave seen the angel’swings move in the breezeand tears roll down itscheeks.

Daisy Theater Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Building constructed c.1917 by Sam Zerilla, whobuilt the first movie housefor blacks. It now houses ablues museum.

Private Early 20th centurydevelopment of black-owned enterprises;blues music

Beale Street sites Visitor centerlocated at 340Beale Street; bluesmuseum tour

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Ducks Unlimited Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Headquarters of DucksUnlimited, a wetlandconservation organization

Private The River;Conservation ofHabitat and Wildlife

NA Can tour facilities,view exhibits ofmemorabilia andwetlands,ecosystem.

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Elmwood Cemetery Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Cemetery founded in1852, a nonprofit venture.Final resting place of 18Confederate generals,political figures, andnotable citizens ofMemphis. Still in use.

Private Cultural Diversity;Civil War; Southernsense of tragedy;cemetery architecture

Other sites in Memphis Visitor center offersguided or self-guided tours.

Cemetery has examples ofVictorian period statuaryand some ironwork. Futureplans are to turn currentoffice building into agenealogical researchfacility

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Elvis Presleydriving tour


Tour of Memphis sitesrelated to Presley’s teenyears and early recordingcareer

Public/Private Cultural Icon - ElvisPresley

Ohter Memphis sites Visitor informationcenter

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The Firm WalkingTour

Memphis, ShelbyCounty. Sites arelocated in down-town Memphisbetween Beale andAdams Streets.

Sites were used in the filmadaptation of JohnGrisham’s book The Firm.

Public/Private Expressing CulturalValues; Literature,Southern writer

NA Visitor informationcenter

Tour consists of notedMemphis architectural sitesand restaurants.

First Baptist BealeStreet Church


First Memphis churchconstructed for blacksbetween 1867-1881

Private Nonresidential Archi-tecture; Spirituality;Reconstruction period;African-Americans


None

Four Way Grill Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Restaurant specializing insoul food open daily from7 a.m. to 11 p.m.


NA Restaurant None

Frisco Bridge Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Cantilever bridge built in1892 to bring seven raillines across the Mississip-pi River; original built bythree railroad companies.

NA Transportation; Build-ing the AmericanEconomy


Bridge is considered to bea landmark of Americanengineering; exhibitsAmerica’s “taming” of theriver and working toexpand the economy.

Ghost Tour ofMemphis


NA Public/Private Southern themes:tragedy andmelodrama

NA Can pick up guideat visitorinformation center

None

Gridley’s Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Specializes in “wet” ribs.These are sticky, messyand glazed with a fruityred sauce. Also servesbarbecued shrimp.

Private Expressing CulturalValues : food

NA Restaurant Restaurant makes its ownbreads and desserts; rivalsRendezvous to be the bestin Memphis.

Hunt-Phelan house Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Antebellum home was astop on the UndergroundRailroad. Site contains aFreedman’s Bureauschool.

Private Slavery; Civil War;Reconstruction;Architecture


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Leonard’s Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Restaurant specializing inbarbecue

Private Expressing CulturalDiversity; food

NA Restaurant Site is well-known in areaand is reputed to be quitegood.

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Memphis Belle B-17 Bomber


WW II bomber. This wasthe first U.S. bomber tocomplete 25 missionsagainst Nazi Germanywith no casualties; subjectof a movie.

City Warfare, Weaponry,Aviation


Months of operation areMarch-October. Cannotenter interior of plane.

Mississippi RiverMuseum

Memphis, ShelbyCounty, Mud Island

Museum covers the10,000-year history ofMississippi River.

City People of the Delta;Mississippi River


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Mud Island Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Large (52-acre) complexon Mississippi River,containing river walk andother exhibits.

City Mississippi River NA Visitor informationcenter

Open March throughOctober

Music Driving Tourof Memphis


Sites important to theMemphis music scene arescattered between ElvisPresley Blvd., UnionStreet, and Beale Street.

Public/Private Expressing CulturalValues; music

NA Center for SouthernFolklore, located onBeale St.

None

National CivilRights Museum


Museum in the motelwhere Martin LutherKing, Jr., was killed hasexhibits spanning theAmerican civil rightsmovement.

Private Race Relations;African AmericanHeritage; Slavery;Civil RightsMovement

NA Museum None

NationalOrnamental MetalMuseum

Shelby County,Memphis, 374Metal MuseumDrive

Museum is one of a kind;its mission is to preservethe art and craft of metal-working. It has a workingblacksmith’s shop.

Private Building the AmericanEconomy; technologyof metalworking

NA Museum galleriesand gift shop.

Changing exhibits thatrange from jewelry makingto architectural metals.

The Peabody Memphis, ShelbyCounty

One of the finest hotels inMemphis; established forover 100 years. Home ofthe Peabody ducks, whichare on display in the lobbydaily.

Private Architecture; Buildingthe AmericanEconomy

NA Hotel andrestaurants

Hotel claims that the Deltabegins in the lobby

St. Mary’sEpiscopal Church.


Oldest Episcopal cathedralin the South, built be-tween 1898 and 1926. Thepresent structure replacedan 1857 Gothic Revivalwooden building.

Private Nonresidentialarchitecture:Spirituality


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Sun Studio Memphis, ShelbyCounty

Recording studio wherebig-name performers likeElvis Presley started theirmusical careers.


NA Offers tours None

Tri-State BankBuilding


This building, constructedin 1907, houses the thirdblack-owned bank inMemphis. Pace & HandyMusic Company, a black-owned enterprise, occu-pied the second floor1913-1918.

Private Expressing CulturalValues; music;Developing theAmeri-can Economy;devel-opment ofblack-ownedbusinesses.


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Walking tour ofdowntown churchesand public build-ings, Memphis

Memphis, ShelbyCounty. Sites arelocated betweenAdams and MarketStreets.

Various styles of architec-ture are represented.Buildings are of historicaland architectural signifi-cance.

Private/Public Cultural Diversity inthe Delta; Religion;NonresidentialArchitecture


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Cobb-Parr Park Covington, TiptonCounty

City park where theTipton barbecue festival isheld.

City Expressing CulturalValues: Festivals andfood

NA Tipton CountyChamber ofCommerce

City of Covington hostsfestival, which boasts theworld’s oldest barbecuecooking contest.

Bozo’s BarbecueRestaurant

Mason, TiptonCounty

Barbecue restaurant inoperation since 1923serves chopped or shred-ded style pork withvinegar-based sauce.


NA Restaurant Owners were sued by Bozothe Clown for infringementover use of name Bozo;the case made its way tothe U.S. Supreme Court;owners won.

Fort Wright Tipton andRandolph Counties

Fort used in Civil War.Only remaining powdermagazine in Tennessee.Breastworks still exist. Itwas a training facility forNathan Bedford Forrest’stroops.

Public/Private Civil War NA Tipton CountyChamber ofCommerce

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Ruffin Theater Covington, TiptonCounty

Built in July 1937, remod-eled 1941 in the art decostyle. The building retainsthe art deco motifs in themarquee, courting seats,and swirl patterns on theceiling, Renovated andrestored in the 1980s.

Tipton Fine ArtsCouncil

20th century; nonresi-dential architecture

NA Arrangements forviewing can bemade through theTipton CountyChamber ofCommerce.

Southern buildings of thisstyle are rare.

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South Main HistoricDistrict, Covington

Covington, TiptonCounty; SouthMain & SouthMaple Streets

Street of historic resi-dences; four-five homesare open for tour; frontyards have demonstrationsof period domesticactivities

NA Architecture, festivals NA Can purchasetickets for tour

Small fee is charged.Carriage rides are offered.

Tennessee Gins Covington, TiptonCounty

Cotton gin and warehouse.Ginning facility was oneof the first in the nation tobecome automated.

Private Developing theEconomy: technology;Agriculture: cotton

NA Visitors can tourfacility.

Need to call for guidedtours.

Home of MikeSnider

Gleason, WeakleyCounty,

Town where Grand OleOpry member MikeSnider grew up andcontinues to maintain ahome.

Private Expressing CulturalValues: country music

Town of Gleason City Hall serves asvisitor center.

None

Gleason, TN Weakley County,extreme NWTennessee; bordersKentucky

Gleason began as a rail-road town. Some historicstructures remain alongthe railroad.

City Developing theAmerican Economy:transportation; railroadcompany town.

NA City Hall serves asvisitor center

None

Boyette’sRestaurant


Family-owned restaurantthat was established in1921 as a country store.Specializes in family stylemeals.


Reelfoot Lake State Park Restaurant None

Cranetown Tiptonville, LakeCounty, locatedwithin ReelfootLake State Park

A swampy area of hugecypress trees. Used assetting for RaintreeCounty movie starringElizabeth Taylor andMontgomery Clift.

State Expressing CulturalValues: Southernthemes in film; man’simpact on nature.

NA Visitor centerlocated at museum

Area was dynamited forcrews to gain entry. Humantraffic negatively affectedthe wildlife population.

Kentucky Lake Paris, HenryCounty

One of the largest man-made lakes in the world,created through Tennesseevalley authority floods ofthe 1930s.

Tennessee ValleyAuthority

Mississippi River:TVA projects

NA Henry CountyChamber ofCommerce

Lake located in Paris(Henry Co.), Tennessee,the oldest incorporatedtown in west Tennessee.Fishing is a major recrea-tional sport in the area.

Center of PopularMusic, MiddleTennessee StateUniversity

Murfreesboro,Rutherford County

Center for research/scholarship in Americanpopular music, mid-18thcentury to present.

State Expressing CulturalValues : music

NA Center maintainslarge library andarchive of printmaterials and soundrecordings.

Site is out of the study areabut is a wonderful resourcefor researching and under-standing the music of theDelta and America.

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Fort Pillow StatePark


Fort Pillow was one ofseveral river fortificationsused by the Confederacyfor defense. The area hadriver batteries and anextensive system ofbreastworks. Controlledby both Confederate andUnion forces.

State Civil War NA Interpretive center None

Doug Atkinshometown


Boyhood town of Atkins,figure in the NationalFootball League. Sites andenvironment relate to theformative years of Atkinsand his football career.

City Recreation: sports NA Humboldt CountyChamber ofCommerce

None

R & J’s Restaurant Rutherford, GibsonCounty

Specializes in barbecueand ribs. Serves pulledbarbecue with tomato-based sauce, as well ascatfish.


NA Restaurant Restaurant has won severalawards.

Jack Boone Henderson, ChesterCounty

Boyhood home of JackBoone, writer of “DossieBell is Dead.” Boone wasa southern writer andrecipient of the O. Henryaward in the 1930s.

City Civil War; ExpressingCultural Values:Southern themes,literature

Hurst Nation HistoricMarker

Chester CountyChamber ofCommerce orCounty Library

Boone was a poet andwriter of short stories,including the publishedwork “Dossie Bell isDead.” The subject of thebook is Col. FieldingHurst, who formed theHurst nation.

Hurst NationHistoric Marker

McNairy County,located off hwy. 45between BethelSprings and Selmer

Hurst nation was an areaoccupied by union sympa-thizers and named for theHurst family. Main areawas part of McNairy andChester Counties.

NA Civil War: CulturalDiversity of the Delta

Jack Boone’s house inHenderson, TN.

McNairy CountyLibrary

Hurst’s wartime home stillstands. It was the onlystructure spared by Unionand Confederate forces.Hurst was leader of Unionoutfit in TN. He lived inthe Purdy community.

Col. Fielding Hurstgravesite

McNairy County,Mt. Gileadcemetery

Gravesite of Col. Hurst,union officer in Tennessee6th cavalry.

Private Civil War Hurst Nation HistoricMarker; Jack Boone’shouse

May use McNairyco. library as center

Cemetery dates to 1823.

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Elvis Presley’sGirlfriend’s House


House purchased by Elvisfor girlfriend in 1975.Decorated by Elvis’sinterior designer. It alsohas original woodenguardhouse from Grace-land.

Private Cultural icon: ElvisPresley

Graceland, Elvis Presleydriving tour

Visitor informationcenter. Can tourGraceland but mustsee this site fromstreet.

None

Magnolia Place Somerville, FayetteCounty

Mansion built in 1911. NA Residentialarchitecture

NA Tours are availableand can scheduleluncheons.

None