Fred Carter, Jr.

Born in Winnsboro on December 31, 1933, Fred Carter Jr. became a Nashville session guitarist in the early 1960s. He played guitar and bass on Bob Dylan's Self Portrait and Nashville Skyline, and his credits include Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence and Bridge over Troubled Water, Joan Baez's Any Day Now and Muddy Waters's Woodstock album. He produced Levon Helm's American Son in 1980 and owned Nugget Records in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. He died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on July 17, 2010, aged 76.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 23 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 30 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 31 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Masur Museum of Art — 32 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.

More markers nearby

• Franklin Parish — 0.4 mi
• Lainey Wilson — 6.2 mi
• Jerry Cupit — 6.2 mi
• Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault — 8.6 mi