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Rolling Fork

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Rolling Fork

Town and administrative headquarters of Sharkey County, west-central Mississippi; population (1990) 2,400. It is situated on Deer Creek, 53 km/33 mi south-southeast of Greenville and 14 km/9 mi east of the Mississippi River, in the south Delta. Settled in the late 1820s, it is an agricultural trade centre. Rolling Fork is the birthplace (1915) of blues great Muddy Waters. American Indian mounds and the Delta National Forest are nearby.



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MAZE Farmer Jim's Pumpkin Patch Lynn and Jim Newman Rolling Fork 662.
1915: Blues singer Muddy Waters was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, as McKinley Morganfield.
1915 Blues singer Muddy Waters was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, as McKinley Morganfield.
 
 
 
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