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Sights & Landmarks
Elvis Presley Mural - by Ryan “ARCY” Christenson
Address: Reed’s Department Store (corner of West Main and Front Streets)
131 Main StTupelo, MS 38804
photo by Kid-Friendly Mississippi
Tupelo National Battlefield
More than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers fought here between the morning of July 14 and the evening of July 15, 1864.
Address: 2680 Natchez Trace ParkwayTupelo, MS 38804
Phone: 1 (800) 305-7417
photo courtesy of Chris Light
Greetings from Tupelo, Mississippi Mural
Address: 202 West Main Street Tupelo, MS 38804
ELVIS PRESLEY HOMECOMING STATUE - TUPELO
This larger than life statue of Elvis’ 1956 Homecoming Concert at the Tupelo Fairgrounds was based on a famous shot called “the Hands” by Roger Marshutz. The statue was placed by the Tupelo Elvis Fan Club and the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau in August of 2012 to commemorate Tupelo’s most famous native son. Facing east toward his Tupelo birthplace, the statue is poised for a perfect photo op with Tupelo City Hall standing behind his right shoulder and Tupelo Hardware visible over his left shoulder. The statue stands on the site of the old fairgrounds where the concert took place and was created by Mississippi sculptor Bill Beckwith.
Address: Fairpark, Tupelo, MS 38804
photo courtesy of https://www.tupelo.net
Pharr Mounds - near Tupelo
This site complex consists of eight burial mounds built during the Middle Woodland period, between 1 and 200 A.D. Ranging in height from two to 18 feet, the mounds are distributed over an area of about 85 acres. They comprise one of the largest Middle Woodland ceremonial sites in the southeastern United States. Four of the mounds were excavated in 1966 by the National Park Service. The mounds covered various internal features, including fire pits and low, clay platforms. Cremated and unburned human remains were found in and near these features, as were various ceremonial artifacts, including copper spools and other copper objects, decorated ceramic vessels, lumps of galena (shiny lead ore), a sheet of mica, and a greenstone platform pipe. The copper, galena, mica and greenstone did not originate in Mississippi; they were imported long distances through extensive trade networks. Such ritually significant nonlocal items typify the Middle Woodland period.
Admission: Free
Hours: Open to the public daily dawn to dusk
Address: Pharr Mounds are located on the Natchez Trace Parkway (milepost 286.7), about 23 miles northeast of Tupelo, Mississippi
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