The Dickinson Family

Hernando was Chickasaw land before European settlement, and after the 1830 Indian Removal Act the Chickasaw ceded most of it and most were moved west of the Mississippi. Settlers called the town Jefferson at first, then named it for the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Felix LaBauve, a French-born settler who lived from 1809 to 1879, became a community leader. The Dickinson Family marker stands on Caffey Street, beside the First Regional Library on West Commerce Street (State Route 304).

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Graceland — 15 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.
• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 18 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.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 20 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.
• Elmwood Cemetery — 21 mi
  Memphis's oldest active cemetery, a rural garden cemetery of about 1,500 trees opened in 1852, with Black civic leaders, yellow fever victims and the city's whole history in its lots.

More markers nearby

• Beale Town Bound — 0.2 mi
• Joe Callicott — 5.6 mi
• Jerry Lee Lewis — 6.0 mi
• Coldwater — 9.1 mi