Grenada Blues

Grenada began as two rival towns. Pittsburg, laid out by Franklin Plummer, and Tulahoma, founded by Hiram Runnels, stood side by side, separated by what is now Line Street, and in 1836 they were joined and incorporated as Grenada. The land had been Choctaw country until the federal removal of the Choctaw people from the area in the early 1830s. Townspeople also founded the Yalobusha Baptist Female Institute here in 1851, for educating young white women. The marker stands at 1st Street and Green Street in Grenada.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — steps away
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.
• Holly Springs National Forest — 13 mi
  A patchwork national forest of about 155,000 acres in the north Mississippi hills, assembled in the 1930s from worn-out cotton fields and replanted in pine by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 20 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Edward C. Walthall — 0.5 mi
• Magic Slim — 0.6 mi
• Grenada Dam — 2.4 mi
• Magic Sam — 4.6 mi