Ivory Joe Hunter

Hunter's songs traveled further than he did. I Almost Lost My Mind topped the R&B chart in 1950, and Pat Boone's later cover reached number one on the pop chart. Since I Met You Baby went to number one on R&B in 1956, and Sonny James took it to number one on the country chart in 1969. Elvis Presley, who met Hunter at Graceland in 1957, recorded several of his songs, among them I Need You So and Ain't That Lovin' You Baby. Hunter's own first recording was a 1933 session for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 0.7 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 — 2.4 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 — 5.6 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.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 6.8 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Selman Field — 1.7 mi
• Selman Field Navigator Memorial — 1.8 mi
• Claire Lee Chennault — 2.3 mi
• OH-6 Cayuse Helicopter — 2.4 mi