Webb Pierce

At fifteen Webb Pierce hosted a weekly fifteen-minute show on KMLB in Monroe. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in September 1952 in the spot left when Hank Williams was fired, and resigned on February 19, 1957, over booking commissions. His 1954 single Slowly is described as the first successful single to feature pedal steel guitar, and In the Jailhouse Now spent 21 weeks at number one in 1955. In Nashville, tourists paid to see his guitar-shaped swimming pool until neighbors, led by Ray Stevens, sued to stop the tours.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.9 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.3 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 4.0 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 6.0 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Don Juan Filhiol Historic Preservation District — steps away
• Site of First City Hall of West Monroe — steps away
• The Ouachita Candy Company Building — 0.3 mi
• Art Alley — 0.4 mi