April 11, 2011, January 18, 2011, November 27, 2012, November 30, 2012
"RIVER ROAD QUEEN WELCOME CENTER"
Highway 82 and Reed Road
Greenville, MS 38701
http://www.thedelta.org
I was passing through and had to stop and check it out. I'm glad I had my camera with me. Although it's not very big, it has a few exhibits on the second floor - mostly about Mississippi, of course. I also picked up a free Mississippi Vacation Guide as a souvenir. Greenville, MS is approximately 134 miles (2 hours and 15 mins.) from the capitol city of Jackson, MS and approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes from Memphis, TN.
The Washington County Welcome Center was a project created by the City of Greenville .The steamboat replica River Road Queen was built for the Mississippi Pavilion on the New Orleans World´s Fair in 1984. The project was to resemble a nineteenth century steamboat. The city then proposed to use the exhibit as a tourist information center after the World’s Fair was over. The second floor houses a small display of river artifacts including the whistle of the steamer KATE ADAMS (#3217). The steamboat replica was taken apart and brought back to Greenville to serve as a tourist center in 1985. The replica now sits in eighteen inches of water and is visited by tourists across the country.
"RIVER ROAD QUEEN WELCOME CENTER"
Highway 82 and Reed Road
Greenville, MS 38701
http://www.thedelta.org
I was passing through and had to stop and check it out. I'm glad I had my camera with me. Although it's not very big, it has a few exhibits on the second floor - mostly about Mississippi, of course. I also picked up a free Mississippi Vacation Guide as a souvenir. Greenville, MS is approximately 134 miles (2 hours and 15 mins.) from the capitol city of Jackson, MS and approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes from Memphis, TN.
The Washington County Welcome Center was a project created by the City of Greenville .The steamboat replica River Road Queen was built for the Mississippi Pavilion on the New Orleans World´s Fair in 1984. The project was to resemble a nineteenth century steamboat. The city then proposed to use the exhibit as a tourist information center after the World’s Fair was over. The second floor houses a small display of river artifacts including the whistle of the steamer KATE ADAMS (#3217). The steamboat replica was taken apart and brought back to Greenville to serve as a tourist center in 1985. The replica now sits in eighteen inches of water and is visited by tourists across the country.
