Where Main Street Meets the River

Hodding Carter Jr. came to Greenville because Delta men asked him to. After Huey Long's assassination in 1935, a group of them recruited Carter, who had attacked Long in his own Louisiana paper, to start the Delta Star, and within two years he bought out his rival and merged them into the Delta Democrat-Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for editorials against Senator Theodore Bilbo and against the government's treatment of Japanese Americans. His wife, Betty Werlein Carter, advised him for life, and the family lived, his son wrote, in a sporadic state of siege.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — steps away
  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 — 8.0 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

• Stein Mart — steps away
• Greenville's Writers — steps away
• Harriet Blanton Theobald Park — 0.6 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 1.6 mi