Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie recorded some two hundred songs over three decades, including "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" and "Bumble Bee." She was probably born in Tunica County, though she claimed New Orleans and said she was raised in Algiers. At seven she moved with her family to Walls, south of Memphis, and her father later returned there and died in 1935. Guitarist Robert Wilkins claimed he had tutored her, and her songs included "When the Levee Breaks."

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 7.1 mi
  A National Historic Landmark Mississippian mound town on a bluff over the Mississippi, with a university museum, a replica house and a nature trail inside T. O. Fuller State Park.
• Graceland — 10 mi
  Elvis Presley's 1939 limestone house in Whitehaven, bought in 1957 and opened as a ticketed museum in 1982, with his grave in the Meditation Garden and a commercial visitor campus around it.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 13 mi
  A rebuilt Stax studio on the site of the old Capitol Theatre, with a replica of the sloped-floor Studio A, Isaac Hayes's Cadillac and the story of an integrated soul label.
• 1866 Memphis Massacre Marker at Army Park — 13 mi
  A privately funded NAACP marker in a small downtown park, placed in 2016, that names the May 1866 attack on Black South Memphis as a massacre.

More markers nearby

• Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi
• Elvis Presley's Circle G Ranch — 5.1 mi
• Chucalissa Indian — 7.1 mi
• Ernest C. Withers House — 8.8 mi