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United States historic place


Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Passenger Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Exterior of the museum in 2017
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Location	Bounded by N. Edwards, Sharkey and Issaquena Aves., and the ICRR main track, Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States
Coordinates	34°12′3″N 90°34′15″W / 34.20083°N 90.57083°W / 34.20083; -90.57083
Built	1926; 98 years ago (1926)
NRHP reference No.	95001194
Added to NRHP	October 31, 1995

The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, is a museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing public access to and awareness of the musical genre known as the blues. Along with holdings of significant blues-related memorabilia, the museum also exhibits and collects art portraying the blues tradition, including works by sculptor Floyd Shaman and photographer Birney Imes.

The museum is located in the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Passenger Depot, also known as Illinois Central Passenger Depot or Clarksdale Passenger Depot, which was built in 1926 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Museum

The museum houses many artifacts related to the blues, notably the shack where blues legend Muddy Waters purportedly lived in his youth on Stovall Plantation, near Clarksdale. The shack was restored to structural stability through the intercession of Isaac Tigrett the House of Blues owner and transported from Stovall Plantation on a tour of HoB venues before being returned to Mississippi to the museum and rebuilt inside.

There is a 2003 30-minute documentary of the same name.

In 2013, a marker was placed outside of the museum as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail.

The museum has been visited by many notable artists such as Eric Clapton and Paul Simon. The Texas-based rock band ZZ Top, especially front man Billy Gibbons, have made this museum their pet project and have raised thousands of dollars in support.

The museum also focuses on educating young people interested in learning to play musical instruments.

Railroad building

External videos
Mississippi Roads; Delta Blues Museum, 26:46, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The museum then moved into the former railroad depot in 1999. The circa 1918 brick building served as the passenger rail depot of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and later the freight depot of Illinois Central Railroad.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
"Delta Blues Museum Blues Trail Marker Unveiling". Delta Bohemian. April 12, 2013. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31.
"Mississippi Roads; Delta Blues Museum". Mississippi Public Broadcasting. American Archive of Public Broadcasting, (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. November 16, 2006. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
"About the Museum". Delta Blues Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-06-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"1999 Heritage Awards". Mississippi Heritage Trust. 1999. Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2009-06-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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Education	Clarksdale MSD Clarksdale HS Lee Academy Coahoma Community College() Coahoma ECHS()
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*()** The community college main campus and early college (formerly agricultural) high school are not in the city limits while one college building away from the main campus is in the city limits; Clarksdale is in the community college's service area (the city was in the service area of the Mississippi Delta Community College until 1995) Coahoma County Junior-Senior High School of the Coahoma County School District is within the Clarksdale city limits, but does not serve the City of Clarksdale

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