Blue Front Cafe
107 East Railroad Ave
Bentonia,
MS
39040
(662) 528-1900
Founded in 1948, the Blue Front Café offers live Delta blues including the unique Bentonia-style, the genre of such Blues greats as Skip James, Jack Owens and Bud Spires. Also the site of the annual Bentonia Blues Festival, held on the 3rd Saturday each June in Bentonia. For a live entertainment schedule contact Jimmy "Duck" Holm...
Glenwood Cemetery
Lithinia Street
Yazoo City,
MS
39194
662-746-1815
Corner of Grady Avenue and Mike Espy Drive. The Glenwood Cemetery property was given to Yazoo City by riverboat Captain and Mrs. John Willis on March 20, 1856. After the gift of the Glenwood, the citizens buried earlier in the first city cemetery on Jefferson Street were moved here. It serves all the people of this community, all races and religio...
Greg Harkins Woodworks
3808 Bend Road
Vaughan,
MS
39179
(662) 673-8229 or (601) 362-4233
Greg Harkins Woodworks, in Vaughan is the home of talented woodworker Greg Harkins, who builds custom-designed plantation rocking chairs using techniques passed down from the 1800s. He is known as “Chairmaker to the Presidents,” having built chairs and donated them to every president since Jimmy Carter, including one for President Georg...
Historic Downtown Yazoo City
332 North Main Street
Yazoo City,
MS
39194
Yazoo City, originally named Manchester, was incorporated in 1830 and became the county seat of Yazoo County in 1848. The steadily growing river town had a major setback in 1904 when a fire destroyed almost all the town’s commercial buildings and half of its finest homes. However, from the ashes of this devastating fire arose a new beginning ...
Oakes African American Cultural Center
312 South Monroe
Yazoo City,
MS
39194
(662) 746-5038 / (662) 746-7984
Open Weekdays 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon; 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Open other times by appointment. The Oakes African-American Cultural Center is home to a museum, which chronicles the 136-year history of the Oakes family in Yazoo City. Originally a one-room structure, it was purchased in 1866 by John and Mary Oakes, an African-American couple from South Car...
Sam Olden Historical Museum
Triangle Cultural Center, 332 North Main Street
Yazoo City,
MS
39194
662-746-1815, 1-800-381-0662
The Sam Olden Historical Museum brings together Yazoo County’s diverse past – from fossils dating back some 45,000 years to Native American relics, Civil War History, and African-American History, to the legendary trainman Casey Jones, and so much more. It features exhibits from Civil Ward days, as well as those depicting World War I, t...
Wells Ranch
933 Wells Road
Bentonia,
MS
39040
662.571.3959
662.746.1237
www.yazoo.org
Wells Ranch in Bentonia, Mississippi has tons to offer any group large or small! This 250-acre working ranch, home to cows, horses, chickens, geese, ducks and a mule, has a screened pavilion with tables and seating for up to 60, 3-section grill, refrigerator/freezer, radio & sound system, flat screen TV, lit parking, enough space for a game of ...