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December 12, 2002 (201 S. Bolivar Ave. Cleveland: 2: Alligator Mounds: July 24, 1974 (Northwestern quarter of the northeastern quarter of Section 32, Township 26 North, Range 5 West [6
The five oldest existing clubs west of the Mississippi River are the Pacific Club in Honolulu (1851), the Pacific-Union Club (1852), Olympic Club (1860), and Concordia-Argonaut Club (1864), all in San Francisco, and the Arlington Club in Portland, Oregon (1867).
Po' Monkey's was a juke joint in unincorporated Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States, outside of Merigold. [1] The juke joint was founded in the early 1960s and was one of the last rural juke joints in the Mississippi Delta. [2] [3] It ceased operating after the death of operator Willie "Po' Monkey" Seaberry in 2016. [4]
It is difficult to find traces of the earliest blues styles, but it was in the delta, in Cleveland, Mississippi, that W.C. Handy heard a man singing a blues in 1895. [ 6 ] Although the complete history will never be known, there is a central theme to the development of what is known as the blues, and that is the plantation that Will Dockery ...
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The Phantasy Entertainment Complex, consisting of the Phantasy Nite Club, The Chamber, Symposium, and Phantasy Theater, first opened in 1918 when it was known as the Homestead Theater. The theater played movies until 1979 and at one point was referred to as the Detroit Theater. Between the years 1976-1977 it was called The Last Picture Show.
Mississippi Highway 33, 4 miles south of Mississippi Highway 24 31°02′23″N 91°06′09″W / 31.039722°N 91.1025°W / 31.039722; -91.1025 ( Holly Centreville vicinity
Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.