Where the Southern Cross the Dog

The crossing that gave this marker its title is still there. In Moorhead the Southern Railway ran east to west and the Yellow Dog line ran north to south, and the junction, a level crossing called a diamond, is preserved as a historic site, even though the north-south line has been abandoned through town. Chester H. Pond, an inventor and railroad developer, is credited as the town's founder. Moorhead's population was 437 in 1900 and 1,937 in 2020. The marker stands on Washington Street, west of East Delta Avenue.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 8.0 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 20 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Dockery Farms — 20 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.
• Bryant's Grocery — 22 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.

More markers nearby

• Johnny Russell — steps away
• B.B. King Birthplace — 7.7 mi
• Freedom School Bombing — 8.1 mi
• Club Ebony — 8.1 mi