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The Best Attractions In Mississippi Delta

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The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The region has been called The Most Southern Place on Earth , because of its unique racial, cultural, and economic history. It is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing circa 4,415,000 acres, or, some 7,000 square miles of alluvial floodplain. Originally covered in hardwood forest across the bottomlands, it was developed as one of the richest cotton-growing areas in the nation before the American Civil War . The region attracted many spe...
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The Best Attractions In Mississippi Delta

  • 1. Horseshoe Casino Tunica
    Horseshoe Lake is a town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 292 at the 2010 census.The town is named after Horseshoe Lake, an oxbow lake at the eastern tip of which the town is located.
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  • 2. 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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  • 4. Tunica Roadhouse Casino Tunica
    Tunica is a town in and the county seat of Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi River. Until the early 1990s when casino gambling was introduced in the area, Tunica had been one of the most impoverished places in the United States. Despite this economic improvement, Tunica's population continues to decline from its peak in 1970.
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  • 5. 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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  • 6. Winterville Mounds Greenville Mississippi
    Winterville is an unincorporated community located in Washington County, Mississippi, near Mississippi Highway 1. Winterville is approximately 3 miles north of Greenville, the county seat, and approximately 4 miles south of Lamont. The Winterville Site, a National Historic Landmark featuring more than twelve major earthwork mounds from the period of 11th to 15th centuries, is located near Winterville along Mississippi 1. It is the type site of the Plaquemine Mississippian culture, from which the Natchez Indians descended. Preceding cultures also constructed mounds in this area.
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  • 7. The Rock & Blues Museum Clarksdale
    Mississippi is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city. The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on...
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  • 11. Hollywood Casino Tunica Tunica
    Hollywood is an unincorporated community located near U.S. Route 61 in Tunica County, Mississippi, United States. It is approximately 4 miles north of North Tunica, approximately 5 miles north of Tunica, and approximately 22 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.
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  • 13. River Bend Links Tunica
    The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. The stream is entirely within the United States , its source is Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota and it flows generally south for 2,320 miles to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth-longest and fifteenth-largest river by discharge in the world. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.Native Americans ...
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