The
South Delta
Rolling Fork
While most people associate Muddy Waters with Clarksdale
or Chicago. Muddy (nee McKinley Morganfield) was born in Rolling
Fork (40 miles south of Leland, 50 miles north of Vicksburg, along
US 61), before being sent to live with his grandmom on Stovall
Plantation at the age of 3. The town, at some point, was able
to cobble together enough money to have this marker erected and
construct a gazebo along with it near the county courthouse. (Photos
taken in April, 2005)
A pictorial time line of history in Rolling Fork. (From
left to right) Native Americans, Christopher Columbus, cotton
plantation, Ironclads on Deer Creek (Union boats trying to
sneak around Vicksburg), Teddy Roosevelt's bear hunt, a fiddle
and guitar player, and Gov. Fielding L. Wright (1946-52).
Side of a store in Rolling Fork (photo taken in April,
2005) (Italics designate corrections sent to me from Jody Perkins
[sorry I took so long])
Below the "Delta"
I wonder if that tugboat really wants to take those
barges up the Yazoo River instead of the Mississippi. The Yazoo
River joins the Mississippi River just at the southern edge of
Vicksburg. The Mississippi River used to flow along the edge of
town here, but due to the Army Corp of Engineers meddling, the
Mississippi jumped its banks and left Vicksburg without river
access. The solution was to reroute the Yazoo to follow the old
Mississippi riverbank in front of Vicksburg and join the Mississippi
south of town instead of north of town. (Photo taken in June 1999)
A burned out nightclub in a most unusual of places.
About 3 miles west of US 61 along the road to Grand Gulf Nuclear
Power Station (between Natchez and Vicksburg). Maybe a blues band
or two played here. (Photo taken in October, 2004)
Quintinsential Mississippi folk architecture, despite
the racial overtones. For some reason it wasn't open this particular
Saturday.
Mammy's is located on the eastside of
US 61, 7 miles south of Natchez. (Photo taken in October, 2004)
Page created on March 5, 2006/ updated on February 23, 2007
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