Craig Wiseman

Craig Wiseman grew up two blocks north of this park on Donwood Place and walked past it on the way home from Thames Elementary. After his father died in a 1974 plane crash, he listened to whatever came over Hattiesburg's WFOR, took up drums at eleven, and became drum captain of the Hattiesburg High School band. He moved to Nashville in 1985 and played in a cover band seven nights a week for twenty-five dollars a night. His first cut came in 1989, a song co-written with Wesley Orbison for Roy Orbison's last studio album.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longleaf Trace — 1.4 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.8 mi
  Hattiesburg's "Civil Rights Church," a Freedom School site in 1964 where Pete Seeger taught music and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke weeks before his death.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 2.8 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.
• Hub City Historic District — 2.8 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.

More markers nearby

• Lloyd Green — 0.5 mi
• Roberts Schoolhouse — 0.6 mi
• Pinehills Neighborhood — 1.7 mi
• John L. Sullivan — 2.0 mi