Story of a Delta Merchant Family
My family came to Lula around 1940 and started a farm on Flea Harbor Road. The Mississippi Delta offered only a few pathways to having a better life in those…
My family came to Lula around 1940 and started a farm on Flea Harbor Road. The Mississippi Delta offered only a few pathways to having a better life in those…
The Tunica Museum is dedicated to the history of Tunica County. The area that would become Tunica was opened up to settlement after the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832.…
Picture from Research provided by the Tunica Museum and Jennie Burton Some people become teachers because they view it as an easy job. It isn’t. Others become teachers because they…
The Sunday of December 5th, 1926 looked to be promising for Abraham Levine. He had been told that a Mexican living out from Lula had hides for sale. All he…
For the last thirty years my parents and I have had to take care of Dowd Cemetery out from Maud in Tunica County. One of those tombstones at Dowd belongs…
Like many young men from rural Mississippi, Willie Gordon was drafted and reported for training in Little Rock, Arkansas. Whether he dreamed of becoming a hero or simply living through…
Years ago when I was a teenager, my Father and I went out to a little cemetery he knew about. I had driven by the place many times and never…
Between Six Mile Lake and the Tunica/Quitman County line lies an area known as Green River Deaden. Not many people live here today. In fact, there are only a few…