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Check in
as early as 3 PM --- Check out 11 AM
Single unit cancellations
must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival date. Multiple room cancellations must
be made 5 days in advance.
the
Shack
Up
Inn and
Cotton Gin Inn
are NOW protected under the US patent & trademark office
wireless internet
for our customers,
limited use due to too much tin on the compound
the Ritz we ain't |
Blues lovers making the pilgrimage to the
cradle of the blues, the Mississippi Delta, should not miss the unique
opportunity to experience
Hopson Plantation, located only three miles from the
legendary Crossroads, Highways 49 and 61, in Clarksdale. Immerse yourself
in the living history you will find at Hopson. Virtually unchanged from
when it was a working plantation, you will find authentic sharecropper
shacks, the original cotton gin and seed houses and other outbuildings. You
will glimpse plantation life as it existed only a few short years ago. In
addition, you will find one of the first mechanized cotton pickers,
manufactured by International Harvester, as you stroll around the compound.
Spend an evening enjoying live music at
Ground Zero Blues Club
or
Red's Lounge, on the corner
of Sunflower and MLK street and then pass
out in one of
the renovated shotgun shacks or one of the newly renovated bins in the
Cotton Gin
Inn. Their
corrugated tin roofs and Mississippi cypress walls will conjure visions of
a bygone era. Restored only enough to accommodate 21st century expectations
(indoor bathrooms, heat, air conditioning,
coffee maker with condiments, refrigerators and microwave in all the units), the
shacks provide comfort as well as authenticity.
Travel the back roads between Highways 49 and 61 in search of
Lost Superstitions and the spirits of Sam
Cooke, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son
House and Elmore James. Head into Clarksdale and tour the
Delta Blues Museum,
Cat Head Delta
Blues and Folk Art,
The Ranchero,
Rock "n Roll
Blues Heritage Museum
and Hambone Art
Gallery.
Another favorite is the
Rust Restaurant on Delta Ave. Hopson has played host to such blues performers and
movie stars as Pinetop Perkins, the North Mississippi Allstars,
Dwayne, Gary and Cedric Burnside,
Kenny Brown, Elvis Costello,
Johnny Neel, Morgan Freeman, Big Jack Johnson, Samuel J. Jackson, Super Chikan, Sam Carr, Charlie
Musselwhite, Robert Plant, Mary Louise Parker, John Mayall, Ike Turner,
Barefoot Workshops
and
Jon Gindick's
Harmonica Jam
Camp just to
name a few.
Whether you're looking for an overnight stay on your way to Memphis or
Chicago or New Orleans or you need to stay longer
to conduct historic blues business, and or monkey
business, the
Shack
Up
Inn will add a new
dimension to your stay in the Delta. As you sit in the rocker on the porch,
tipping a cold one while the sun sinks slowly to the horizon, you just
might hear Pinetop Perkins radiatin' the 88's over at
his shack.
Perhaps, if you close your eyes even Muddy or Robert or
Charlie might stop to strum a few chords in the night.
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Shack Up Inn -Cotton Gin
Inn
001 Commissary Circle
Clarksdale, MS 38614
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(662) 624-8329 |
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