Rosedale

Rosedale's depot stood on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line that carried many migrants north in the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Johnson's original lyrics to "Travelling Riverside Blues" trace a route from Friars Point south to Rosedale and Vicksburg, and north to Memphis. Locals say Johnson sold his soul to the Devil where highways 1 and 8 meet, but other Delta towns tell the same story about their own crossroads, and scholars disagree about where the legend began.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 16 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.
• Mound Bayou — 17 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Arkansas Post National Memorial — 22 mi
  The site of Arkansas's first European trading post, opened in 1686 beside the Quapaw town of Osotouy, later a territorial capital and the scene of a January 1863 Union victory.
• Dockery Farms — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Hot Tamales and the Blues — steps away
• Mildrette Netter — 0.5 mi
• Otis Clay — 5.7 mi
• Eddie Shaw — 14 mi