Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins took his stage name in 1957, the first part from Conway, Arkansas, the last from Twitty, Texas. A year later he wrote and released It's Only Make Believe, a million-seller that reached number one on the pop charts, and by the mid-1960s his rock records had sold more than sixteen million copies. In 1965 he went back to country music, and with Loretta Lynn he won the Country Music Association's duo award every year from 1971 through 1974. He died in 1993, a day after collapsing on stage in Branson.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Freedom Park — 10 mi
  An outdoor Delta Cultural Center site on the ground of a Civil War contraband camp, where thousands of people who had escaped slavery sheltered and men enlisted.
• Delta Cultural Center — 11 mi
  A state museum in downtown Helena where King Biscuit Time, the longest-running daily blues radio show, is broadcast live from the Visitors Center.
• Elaine Massacre Memorial — 11 mi
  A memorial dedicated in 2019 in Helena for the Black people killed by white mobs and troops in the 1919 Elaine Massacre, the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history.
• Delta Blues Museum — 12 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.

More markers nearby

• Robert Nighthawk — steps away
• Muddy Waters's Cabin — 7.4 mi
• Helena, Arkansas — 9.4 mi
• James L. Alcorn — 9.6 mi