Everything Shaw is known for
Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Shaw.
The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.
Cotton plantation near Cleveland, Mississippi where Charley Patton, the 'Father of the Delta Blues,' lived and performed, influencing generations of blues musicians.
A Mississippian-period ceremonial center with twelve surviving earthen mounds, once a thriving community of the mound-building culture.
9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
Pull over here for a second; this is sacred ground for American music. Dockery Plantation is widely considered the birthplace of the blues. Robert Dockery established the plantation in 1895. It grew to become a…
Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil for guitar skills.
The intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, legendary site where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for guitar mastery.
Cotton plantation near Cleveland, Mississippi where Charley Patton, the 'Father of the Delta Blues,' lived and performed, influencing generations of blues musicians.
The great mound complex at Winterville didn't exist in isolation. Scattered across Washington County, smaller mound sites and village settlements surrounded the main ceremonial center like suburbs around a downtown.…
Twelve mounds rise from the flat Delta bottomland here like a skyline built from earth. Winterville was a major ceremonial center of the Mississippian world, thriving between 1000 and 1450 AD. At its height, the largest…
A Mississippian-period ceremonial center with twelve surviving earthen mounds, once a thriving community of the mound-building culture.
This unassuming spot in Mound Bayou marks the site of a truly groundbreaking achievement: the Bank of Mound Bayou. It's a testament to the resilience and entrepreneurial spirit of the African American community in the…
Pull over for a minute, because what happened here in 1942 was nothing short of revolutionary. This was Taborian Hospital, and in the segregated South, it was a beacon of hope, staffed entirely by African Americans.…