Lloyd Green

At fifteen Lloyd Green owned a double-neck Fender steel guitar. After hearing Webb Pierce's Slowly, a hit that put pedal steel in front, he had a friend weld a pedal from a Ford Model T to the guitar's tuning system so it could imitate steel player Bud Isaacs. While at Mississippi Southern College he played Saturday-night barn dances in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He reached Nashville the day after Christmas in 1956, joined Faron Young's band, and met Dorothy Edwards at the Grand Ole Opry. They married six months later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longleaf Trace — 1.0 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.
• African American Military History Museum — 2.5 mi
  The wooden USO club that opened in March 1942 for Black soldiers training at Camp Shelby, now a museum of African American military service from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 2.5 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.
• Hub City Historic District — 2.6 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.

More markers nearby

• Roberts Schoolhouse — steps away
• Craig Wiseman — 0.5 mi
• Pinehills Neighborhood — 2.0 mi
• John L. Sullivan — 2.3 mi