Stein Mart

Stein Mart's road from one Greenville store to a national chain ran through Memphis. After Jay Stein succeeded his father, Jake, as chief executive in the late 1970s, the company opened a Memphis store in 1977 and recast itself from discount department store to fashion store. Nashville followed in 1980 and Jacksonville, Florida, in 1983, and headquarters moved to Jacksonville in 1984. By 1992 the chain ran forty-five stores and was listed on NASDAQ, and in 2001 Jay Stein's successor became the first chief executive from outside the family.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 0.3 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 5.1 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 8.2 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 12 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Where Main Street Meets the River — steps away
• Greenville's Writers — steps away
• Harriet Blanton Theobald Park — 0.4 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 1.6 mi