Birthplace of Kermit the Frog

The frog started out as a local-television puppet. An early version of Kermit appeared on Sam and Friends, which Jim Henson debuted on a Washington station in 1955 and which ran until 1961, winning a local Emmy in 1958. Sesame Street followed in 1969, and by the early 1970s it was reaching about half of America's twelve million children aged three to five. When American networks balked at a prime-time Muppet Show in 1976, Lord Lew Grade of Britain syndicated it, and it played on stations in more than one hundred countries.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 9.7 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 11 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 15 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 17 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.

More markers nearby

• Johnny Winter — steps away
• Son Thomas — steps away
• Tyrone Davis — 0.2 mi
• Ruby's Nite Spot — 0.3 mi