Exploring Mississippi

Clarksdale

• Delta Blues Museum
• Sunflower River Trading Company
• Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art

Cleveland

• Historic Crosstie Shopping District
• Cleveland Depot Library

Greenville Welcome Center Greenwood

• Cottonlandia Museum

Canton

• Allison Wells School of Arts & Crafts
• Historic Business District

Jackson

• Old State Capitol
• Governor’s Mansion
• Mississippi Ag Museum

Vicksburg

• Biedenharn Coca Cola Museum
• Old Courthouse Museum
• River City Blues Museum
• Vicksburg National Military Park

Natchez

• Tour Dunleith Plantation antebellum home

Gulf Coast

• Biloxi Shrimping Trip
• Beauvoir Historic Home
• John Stennis Space Center

Meridian

• Jimmy Rogers Museum
• Dentzel Menagerie Carousel

Columbus

• Columbus Welcome Center - Tennessee Williams Home
• Self-guided Walking Tour of historic homes area

Tupelo

• Elvis’ Birthplace & Museum
• Tupelo Automobile Museum

Corinth

• Curlee House
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center
• Northeast Mississippi Museum

Day 1 Clarksdale from Memphis (75 mi / 120 km) From the 30’s on through the 50’s Clarksdale was a major blues town. John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner, Little Junior Parker and Sam Cooke were born here. Robert Nighthawk, Bukka White, “Gatemouth” Moore, Eddie Boyd, Son House, and Charley Patton all once lived in the area. Clarksdale became the center of the blues world by virtue of its location smack in the middle of the Delta and Delta blues still come from this source. Here you’ll find the old train depot and the Delta Blues Museum. Also see the junction of Highways 61 and 49 where the Robert Johnson made his infamous pact with the Devil! As you leave Clarksdale and drive down legendary Highway 61, you will realize that you are in the true “Birthplace of the Blues” and some the world’s richest farmland as well. Out of these fields came the original blues singers who performed in local honky tonks and juke joints. The best of these brought their talents to Beale Street in Memphis. A must stop is the Sunflower River Trading Company for some of the South’s most unusual items for sale. Next stop at the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Inc, which is a 6-day-a-week store that features a full selection of blues CDs, videos, DVDs, books and collectibles as well as an affordable mix of Southern self-taught, folk and outsider art. “It’s kind of like shopping in a juke joint.” Overnight Clarksdale.