Bob Ferguson

Bob Ferguson came to Mississippi in 1978 after a Nashville career. At RCA Victor under Chet Atkins he produced Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton and Connie Smith, and he wrote Carroll County Accident, the 1969 Country Music Association Song of the Year. He had also earned a master's degree in anthropology at Vanderbilt and led digs at Mound Bottom near Nashville. For the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians he became tribal historian and video producer, edited the Choctaw Times, and co-wrote a book on the Southeast's Indian peoples.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chahta Immi Cultural Center — 2.0 mi
  The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' own museum and cultural center at Pearl River, with basketry, artifacts and the tribe's guidance on what visitors may see.
• Old Neshoba County Jail — 6.5 mi
  The 1955 jail in downtown Philadelphia where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were held on June 21, 1964, hours before they were murdered.
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 13 mi
  The Black church in Longdale burned by the Klan on June 16, 1964, rebuilt by its congregation, and the place Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner had gone to visit when they were murdered.
• Nanih Waiya — 19 mi
  The Mother Mound of the Choctaw in Winston County, a sacred origin place returned to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in 2008.

More markers nearby

• Choctaw Indian Fair — steps away
• Neshoba County Fair — 4.7 mi
• Otis Rush — 6.2 mi
• Marty Gamblin — 6.5 mi