Alligator Blues

Alligator takes its name from Alligator Lake, a body of water in the town that once held a large alligator population. By the 2020 census only 116 people lived here, down 44 percent in a decade. In 2009 voters elected Tommie "Tomaso" Brown the town's first Black mayor, ending a run by Robert Fava, who had held the office since 1979. The Alligator Blues marker stands at 1st Street and Fava Street, in Bolivar County.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Delta Blues Museum — 11 mi
  The state's oldest music museum, in a restored 1918 freight depot in Clarksdale, with Muddy Waters's rebuilt cabin and instruments from Delta players.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 14 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.
• Mound Bayou — 14 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the Tallahatchie County Courthouse — 22 mi
  The 1955 courthouse in Sumner where Emmett Till's killers were acquitted, restored to that year, and the interpretive center across the street that opened after the county's 2007 apology.

More markers nearby

• Fred Coe 1914-1979 — steps away
• Little Junior Parker — 3.9 mi
• Henry Townsend — 10.0 mi
• Hopson Plantation Established 1852 — 11 mi