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Clarksdale

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Clarksdale

City in northwestern Mississippi, USA, in the Delta, on the Sunflower River, 113 km/70 mi south-southwest of Memphis, Tennessee; seat of Coahoma County; population (2000) 20,600. Clarksdale has various light industries.

Settled in the 1840s, Clarksdale became a cotton processing and shipping centre, surrounded by flat expanses of the crop. It is known as a centre of blues music; it houses the Delta Blues Museum, and major blues figures including Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson lived in the vicinity. The composer W C Handy said he had first encountered blues here. Sunflower Landing, 23 km/14 mi to the west, is thought to be the spot where Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi River in 1541.



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amp;ldquo;It includes nothing more modern than a four-row planter and a two-row cotton picker,” says Barnes, a Clarksdale, Miss.
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