Little Italy (La Piccolo Italia)

Italians came to the Delta partly because planters wanted them. Leroy Percy and other large Washington County planters tried importing Italian farmworkers, and by 1910 more than a thousand Italians lived in Bolivar and Washington Counties. Greenville's Italians formed a mutual benefit society, and most stayed Catholic, which helped the church grow in the state. Their cooking took root too: Doe's Eat Place began in 1903 as a grocery run by the Italian immigrant Carmel Signa.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 2.3 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 7.4 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 8.0 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 10 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Holt Collier — 0.3 mi
• Original Chinese Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 0.9 mi
• First Legal Liquor Store — 1.9 mi