Birthplace of Billy Lee Riley

Riley's career did not end with Sun. He left the label in 1960 and co-founded Rita Records with guitarist Roland Janes, and the label put out Harold Dorman's Mountain of Love. Riley later played the harmonica solo on Johnny Rivers's version. In 1962 he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a session musician for Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert and Sammy Davis Jr. In the early 1970s he quit music and started a construction business in Arkansas. Covers of his songs by Robert Gordon and Link Wray in 1978 drew him back.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 9.0 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 15 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 23 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Wear Kibler Schoonover 1910-1982 — 0.3 mi
• Randolph County Court House — 0.4 mi
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley — 0.4 mi
• The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial — 0.6 mi