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Specialty Museum Attractions In Gillett

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Arkansas Post National Memorial

Arkansas Post Museum

Hollywood Casino Tunica

The Delta Blues Museum

Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art

B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center

Casino at Fitzgeralds Hotel

Sam's Town Casino

Gillett is a city in Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 691 at the 2010 census. Gillett is the home of the annual Gillett Coon Supper. The Arkansas Post National Memorial is located southeast of the town. The largest alligator ever killed in Arkansas was harpooned near Gillett on September 19, 2010. The thirteen-foot one-inch reptile weighed 680 pounds.
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Gillett

1. The Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale
William Christopher Handy was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues. An African American, Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre and was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers.
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2. B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center Indianola Mississippi
The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a Delta blues museum with the mission to empower, unite and heal through music, art and education and share with the world the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta. The museum, named for blues legend, B.B. King, is located in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, in the United States.
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Gillett Videos

Exploring Arkansas June 2009

Richland Creek Wilderness Falls, Arkansas Post National Memorial, Wattensaw Bayou Float

In a previous episode two waterfalls were featured in the Richland Creek Wilderness area in the Ozark National Forest near Ben Hur In this segment, several more picturesque waterfalls are explored in this same area. Arkansas Post National Memorial near Gillette was not only the site of the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi Valley, but also a Civil War battleground and Arkansas'only Revolutionary War battle site. A float trip down Wattensaw Bayou near Hazen closes out the episode.

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