Pontotoc, Mississippi

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

• Owl Creek Mounds · 13.9 mi · Archaeological Site

  Pull off the Natchez Trace and walk a few hundred yards into the woods. Five mounds appear in a clearing, arranged around a central plaza that hasn't changed its shape in nine hundred years. Owl Creek was a small but…

• Tupelo National Battlefield · 15.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine this quiet Mississippi field once echoing with the thunder of cannons and the cries of soldiers. This is Tupelo National Battlefield, a place where the fate of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign hung in the balance. In…

• Natchez Trace Parkway · 16.1 mi · Things to Do

  444 miles of historic trail from Nashville to Natchez. No billboards no trucks no stoplights.

• Ingomar Mound · 16.5 mi · Archaeological Site

  Rising from a farmer's field near New Albany, Ingomar Mound is one of the tallest single mounds in Mississippi. It doesn't sit in a park or behind a visitor center. It just stands there, in the middle of the…

• Tupelo, MS · 16.8 mi · Local history

  Tupelo, Mississippi, owes its existence to the railroad. The Mobile and Ohio line transformed a small crossroads into a bustling transportation hub, drawing people from the surrounding rural areas and beyond. While the…

• Elvis Presley Birthplace · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker

  The two-room shotgun house in Tupelo where Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935.

• Tupelo Hardware Company · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker

  The hardware store where Gladys Presley bought a guitar for young Elvis in 1946, when he had wanted a rifle or a bicycle.

• Tupelo, MS · 16.9 mi · Wikipedia

  Tupelo's story as a city began in 1860, though it was officially incorporated a decade later in 1870. Before that, the area was known as "Gum Pond" and was developing along the important Mobile and Ohio Railroad. This…

• Pharr Mounds · 19.6 mi · Archaeological Site

  This is the largest mound group in Mississippi, and it's older than most people expect. Pharr Mounds date to around 100 AD, the Middle Woodland period, nearly a thousand years before the great Mississippian centers rose…