Elvis Presley Birthplace
1935The two-room shotgun house in Tupelo where Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935.
16.9 mi away
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The two-room shotgun house in Tupelo where Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935.
The hardware store where Gladys Presley bought a guitar for young Elvis in 1946, when he had wanted a rifle or a bicycle.
9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
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…
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…
444 miles of historic trail from Nashville to Natchez. No billboards no trucks no stoplights.
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, 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…
The two-room shotgun house in Tupelo where Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935.
The hardware store where Gladys Presley bought a guitar for young Elvis in 1946, when he had wanted a rifle or a bicycle.
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…
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…