Choctaw County Blues

The Choctaw County Blues marker stands in Weir, a very small town that a former Confederate colonel, John Weir, and his brother James settled in 1868. Weir's population peaked at 570 in the 1930 census and was 441 in 2020. Its school football program played in ten state championships between 1984 and 2004 and won six Class 1A titles. The marker, which covers musicians from across the county, is at Main Street and Front Street in Weir rather than at the county seat, Ackerman, where the Two Steps from the Blues marker stands.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 23 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 30 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.
• Nanih Waiya — 31 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

• Ackerman — 7.2 mi
• Governor Ray Mabus — 7.4 mi
• Governor J.P. Coleman — 7.4 mi
• Legion Lodge — 16 mi