Everything Itta Bena is known for
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Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Itta Bena.
The last rural juke joint in the Mississippi Delta, operated by Willie 'Po' Monkey' Seaberry out of his sharecropper shack from 1963 until his death in 2016.
Cotton Row along the Yazoo River in Greenwood, once the commercial heart of the Delta's cotton economy and self-proclaimed cotton capital of the world.
The store in Money, Mississippi where fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman in August 1955, leading to his kidnapping and murder.
The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.
9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
See that water? This spot might just mark the very beginning of the Civil War. In January 1861, the Star of the West, a civilian steamship, was headed to Fort Sumter to resupply the Union garrison there. As it…
This unassuming spot was once a crucial Confederate stronghold, holding back Union forces during the pivotal Vicksburg Campaign. In early 1863, Confederate troops built Fort Pemberton here, at the strategic confluence…
Greenwood sits at the edge of the Delta where the Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers converge, and it's been a crossroads for a lot longer than the highway signs suggest. A cluster of Mississippian mound sites in Leflore…
The last rural juke joint in the Mississippi Delta, operated by Willie 'Po' Monkey' Seaberry out of his sharecropper shack from 1963 until his death in 2016.
Cotton Row along the Yazoo River in Greenwood, once the commercial heart of the Delta's cotton economy and self-proclaimed cotton capital of the world.
Greenwood, Mississippi, owes its existence to the fertile land bordering the Yazoo River. Before it was a town, this flat Delta land saw Choctaw settlements, and then the rise of sprawling cotton plantations. The river…
The store in Money, Mississippi where fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman in August 1955, leading to his kidnapping and murder.
The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.
Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil for guitar skills.
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