Pete Pyle

Pete Pyle was a country singer, songwriter and bandleader, born in 1920, whose career ran mostly through the Southeast in the 1940s and 1950s. He played the Grand Ole Opry off and on from 1940 into the early 1950s, with his own band and with bands led by Bill Monroe and Pee Wee King. He wrote Highway of Sorrow, which Monroe recorded, and formed a band called the Mississippi Valley Boys. The Country Music Foundation recorded a roughly 75-minute oral history with him on October 2, 1974, covering his childhood, his recording career and his songwriting.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Contraband Camp — 13 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 14 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 16 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Tishomingo State Park — 17 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.

More markers nearby

• Brig. Gen. Henry Little — 6.6 mi
• Battle of Iuka — 6.7 mi
• Iuka Normal — 7.2 mi
• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 7.4 mi