Elvis Presley's Circle G Ranch

The Circle G has a longer story than Elvis's years there. The farmhouse called the Honeymoon Cottage was built around 1897 for Edson Hart, a steamboat captain and Memphis hardware merchant, and a former Delta pilot, Jack Adams, bought the place in 1963. Elvis moved his horses from Graceland and poured pads for eight house trailers for friends and their families. In 1969 he sold to the North Mississippi Gun Club, which built a pink stucco clubhouse, and in 1972 he bought the ranch back at auction. Widening Highway 302 later took the front gate. The ranch is private.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Graceland — 7.0 mi
  Elvis Presley's 1939 limestone house in Whitehaven, bought in 1957 and opened as a ticketed museum in 1982, with his grave in the Meditation Garden and a commercial visitor campus around it.
• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 7.2 mi
  A National Historic Landmark Mississippian mound town on a bluff over the Mississippi, with a university museum, a replica house and a nature trail inside T. O. Fuller State Park.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 11 mi
  A rebuilt Stax studio on the site of the old Capitol Theatre, with a replica of the sloped-floor Studio A, Isaac Hayes's Cadillac and the story of an integrated soul label.
• Elmwood Cemetery — 12 mi
  Memphis's oldest active cemetery, a rural garden cemetery of about 1,500 trees opened in 1852, with Black civic leaders, yellow fever victims and the city's whole history in its lots.

More markers nearby

• Big Walter Horton — 3.9 mi
• Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi
• Memphis Minnie — 5.1 mi
• Wooten Fallout Shelter — 5.4 mi