Tag: Stories and Legends
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True Story of Johnny Keyhole
As a child I used to sit wide eyed as my grandparents told me the story of Johnny Keyhole. Even though they changed the story a little each time, it didn’t matter to me. I was mesmerized by the legend and could never get enough of how this bigger than life man terrorized Quitman and…
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Nash’s Landing, Tunica County (Ghost town)
Dr. Charles Nash was born in January, 1824 in Missouri. On December 12,1855, Dr. Charles E. Nash moved to Tunica County, Mississippi from Helena, Arkansas. He had moved to Helena shortly before 1850 from Missouri. On the 1850 U.S. Census, he is listed as living in Helena, Arkansas in a hotel owned by J.M.…
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A Haunted Curve
When my family moved to Flea Harbor Road in 1940, there was a giant oak tree in a deep curve in the road directly in front of the house. From that curve ran the drive way passing the house and ending at a farm shop. A few years later a neighbor, who lived across the…
My Delta World 