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Moorhead, Mississippi

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History of Moorhead

The Crossroads - Robert Johnson Legend

1930

The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.

5.3 mi away

Po' Monkey's Lounge (Site)

1963

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.

12.9 mi away

Greenwood - Cotton Capital of the World

1830

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.

19.4 mi away

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Everything Near Moorhead

9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • The Crossroads - Robert Johnson Legend · 5.3 mi · Historical Marker

    The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.

  • The Crossroads · 6.0 mi · Things to Do

    Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil for guitar skills.

  • Po' Monkey's Lounge (Site) · 12.9 mi · Historical Marker

    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.

  • Star of the West · 16.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    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…

  • Fort Pemberton (Mississippi) · 16.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    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 Mounds · 17.9 mi · Archaeological Site

    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…

  • Jaketown Mounds · 18.7 mi · Archaeological Site

    Three thousand years ago, the Yazoo Delta was already on the map. Jaketown is one of the oldest mound sites in Mississippi, first built by the Poverty Point culture between 1500 and 1350 BC, long before the…

  • Greenwood, MS · 19.3 mi · Local history

    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…

  • Greenwood - Cotton Capital of the World · 19.4 mi · Historical Marker

    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.

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