The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has erected a marker commemorating Mississippi John Hurt at the intersection of Highway 7 and County Road 204 near Avalon, Mississippi.
![Mississippi Department of Archives and History marker for Mississippi John Hurt, Highway 7, Avalon, Mississippi.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/John_Hurt-MDAH_marker-Avalon-mississippibluestravellers-P5022230-1662x1247.jpg)
This marker reads:
” MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT – John S. Hurt (1893-1966) was a pioneer blues and folk guitarist. Self-taught, Hurt rarely left his home at Avalon, where he worker as a farmer. Although he recorded several songs in 1928, including ‘Avalon Blues‘ and ‘Frankie,’ he lived in relative obscurity before he was ‘rediscovered’ in the blues revival of the 1960s.”
![Mississippi Department of Archives and History marker for Mississippi John Hurt, Highway 7, Avalon, Mississippi.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/John_Hurt-MDAH_marker-Avalon-mississippibluestravellers-P5022229-1662x1247.jpg)
Other nearby sites of interest include: Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Mississippi John Hurt ; Mississippi John Hurt’s gravesite.
Other sites within easy driving distance include: possible Robert Johnson gravesite at Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church near Money, Mississippi ; Mississippi Freedom Trail marker for Bryant’s Grocery in Money, Mississippi ; the site where Robert Johnson was poisoned in 1938 is not known with certainty. It may have happened at the intersection of Highway 49E and Highway 82, near Greenwood.
![Mississippi Blues Trail marker commemorating Mississippi John Hurt, Avalon, Mississippi](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mississippi_John_Hurt-MBT_marker-Avalon-mississippibluestravellers-P5022235-1662x1247.jpg)
![Mississippi John Hurt grave, Avalon, Mississippi, with tributes left by fans.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mississippi_John_Hurt-gravesite-mississippibluestravellers-P5022249-1662x1247.jpg)
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