Robinson Road

A man named Raymond Robinson, who built the first house in Raymond, was hired to survey and build the road, and it took his name. In 1822 it became a mail route, which pulled northern Mississippi traffic away from the Natchez Trace, and in 1823 and 1824 the federal government and the Mississippi legislature paid for improvements. For a time it was the only route between Jackson and the settlements on the Tombigbee. It carried settlers west into the New Purchase. A 1831 map shows it running from Columbus to the Natchez Trace in Leake County.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — steps away
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 6.6 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 14 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Columbus — steps away
• Confederate Decoration Day — 0.2 mi
• Columbus, Mississippi Blues — 0.2 mi
• Gleed's Corner — 0.3 mi