Hot Tamales and the Blues

Rosedale was first settled around 1838 and became one of Bolivar County's two county seats in 1872. It incorporated as a town in 1882, the year railroad construction brought a stop on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line, and it became a city in 1930. In 2020 the census counted about 1,584 people, nearly 89 percent of them Black. The Hot Tamales and the Blues marker stands where Main Street, Mississippi Highway 1, meets Brown Street, on the left going north.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 16 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.
• Mound Bayou — 17 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Arkansas Post National Memorial — 22 mi
  The site of Arkansas's first European trading post, opened in 1686 beside the Quapaw town of Osotouy, later a territorial capital and the scene of a January 1863 Union victory.
• Dockery Farms — 25 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.

More markers nearby

• Rosedale — steps away
• Mildrette Netter — 0.4 mi
• Otis Clay — 5.8 mi
• Eddie Shaw — 14 mi