McNutt

Alexander Gallatin McNutt took office in January 1838 as Mississippi sank into depression. He signed the Union Bank into law in hope of relief, and when it failed in 1839 he judged the state's bonds could not be paid and the legislature repudiated them, a fight that lasted until the 1890 constitution. He was also a published humorist whose hunting tales ran in the New York Spirit of the Times. He died in 1848 on the campaign trail, and the town of McNutt, once the Sunflower County seat, lost its courthouse when Leflore County formed and faded away.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bryant's Grocery — 9.9 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 11 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Dockery Farms — 15 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.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 20 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Guitar Slim — 10 mi
• Itta Bena ("Home in the Woods") — 11 mi
• Robert Johnson Gravesite — 11 mi
• March Against Fear — 11 mi