Leake County Revelers

Four Sebastopol men became a Columbia Records string band, named for Leake County by a producer though not all of them came from there. R. O. Mosley ran a hardware and record store, and fiddler Will Gilmer worked at the drug store next door. After talent scout H. C. Speir of Jackson recommended them, their first session in New Orleans in April 1927 produced Wednesday Night Waltz, which sold nearly a quarter million copies. Mosley's death in 1931 ended the band. Descendants, as the Leake County String Band, played on the 1976 film Ode to Billie Joe.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chahta Immi Cultural Center — 16 mi
  The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' own museum and cultural center at Pearl River, with basketry, artifacts and the tribe's guidance on what visitors may see.
• Old Neshoba County Jail — 19 mi
  The 1955 jail in downtown Philadelphia where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were held on June 21, 1964, hours before they were murdered.
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 25 mi
  The Black church in Longdale burned by the Klan on June 16, 1964, rebuilt by its congregation, and the place Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner had gone to visit when they were murdered.
• Roosevelt State Park — 26 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps state park on 150-acre Shadow Lake beside Bienville National Forest, with rustic cabins the CCC built between 1935 and 1940.

More markers nearby

• Neshoba County Fair — 12 mi
• James Oliver Eastland — 16 mi
• Choctaw Indian Fair — 16 mi
• Bob Ferguson — 16 mi