2023 Aug 18, Day Trip to Jackson, Tennessee

Today, we rode Jackson, Tennessee, by way of Highway 72 through Iuka, Burnsville, to Corinth, Mississippi. In Corinth, we took Highway 45 through several small towns to Jacksonville, Tennessee. 

We stopped at Murphy's in Jackson, Tennessee, to fill up with gas, which cost $42.75 at 10:47 AM.

Our first stop was at the Carnegie Legends, "The Legends of Tennessee Music Museum."

This museum is located in the old Carnegie  Library, where Carl Perkins played his first guitar when he was just a boy. 

This museum houses such artists as Carl Perkins, Tina Turner, Eddy Arnold, Sonny Boy Williamson, Maybelle, Isaac Tigrett, and Jonathan Singleton. 

Many items that were once in the Rock-A-Billy Museum are now housed in this museum. 

The gold statue of Elvis Presley and the large poster pictures of Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and many others are also located in this museum.

GOLD ELVIS

The Rock A Billy Tribute Sculpture of a Guitar by Don Worth on November 29, 2006, was also placed on the lawn of this museum.

Next, we visited Rusty's TV and Movie Car Museum, located at 323 Hollywood Dr in Jackson.

Owner Rusty Robinson has over 35 cars in his museum.

The Blues Brothers 

Some of the cars that you will see are:

Rust-E-Ze # 95 Race Car 

Jurassic Park Jeep #29

The A'Team GMC Van 

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure bicycle 

Barbie's pink Corvette

Tow Mater Towing and Salvage in the movie Cars 

Knight Riders Tran-am 

The Blues Brothers Pq1 Police Car 

The RV was used during the Christmas Vacation. 

Starkey and Hutch Red and White Ford 

The van used by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 

Ghost Busters Station wagon 

the car used in the movie Christine 

The Bat Mobile 

The Mystery Machine Van used by Scooby Doo and Friends 

And many more.

We stopped at the Madison County Courthouse to take pictures of markers. 

We ate lunch at Catfish Cabin around 2 PM, where we ate hushpuppies, shrimp, catfish, white beans, and coleslaw.

On the wall were pictures of WC Handy, Carl Perkins, BB King, and Furry Lewis. 

Golden fried shrimp with White Beans and cole Slaw! Yum!

Some of the towns we came through going home were Finger, Adamsville, Crump, and Savannah, Tennessee.

 

2016 March 8, Tuesday, Waynesboro, Lawrenceburg, Mt Pleasant, Columbia, & Spring Hill, Tennessee

Yesterday was a gorgeous, breezy day for traveling and to take pictures.
Our first stop was at Randy's One Stop to purchase lottery tickets for two weeks and to grab a quick snack of cheese crackers and soda
Next, we travel up Hwy 43 taking the new overpass west on hwy 64 to Waynesboro, Tennessee.
From Waynesboro we traveled thru Lawrenceburg taking hwy 43 north.
From Lawrenceburg we took the scenic route through Sandy Hook and through several small un-incorporated towns along the old Lawrenceburg highway.

Lawrenceburg Old Highway

Next, we traveled through Mt Pleasant stopping just long enough to take a few pictures of old historic homes and buildings.

We stopped at St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery where many of President Jame A Polk relatives are buried.
Four of the Polk brothers donated the land and built St John's Episcopal Church.
Now a historic building and site no longer used for services.
I walked along the grounds stopping to take pictures of the church and cemetery.

St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery  in Mt Pleasant

St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery 

Next, we took highway 243 into Columbia.
We stopped at Columbia Academy, now a private Christian Academy but once was called Columbia Military Academy.
The Academy was built as an arsenal for the US Army in 1891.
There were several building built in the Colonial Revival Romanesque, Georgian Revival style sitting on sixty seven acres on West seventh street.
The first building had three levels with a red slate roof, white brick or stone, lots of windows, and rounded arched door ways.
One of the buildings had two chimneys, triangle roof with black shingles, and a tin covered porch.
The last historic building also had three chimneys, triangle roof, open porch on the first and second levels with lots of windows.

Columbia Military Academy

Columbia Military Academy

We stopped to take a picture of an historic white building built 1859 that had been used as a bank now abandoned and for sale.

Built 1859 home but used by a bank 

Next, we rode into the historic downtown area of Columbia  stopping along the way to  take a few pictures of historic building and homes.
Columbia is the home to our President James K Polk.

Downtown Columbia

Maury County Courthouse

First Presbyterian Church 

President James K Polk Home/Museum 

St Peters Church in Columbia

1835 The Rectory of the Athenaeum School for Girls 1852-1904 now a museum 

We finished the day by riding farther north to Spring Hill.
We stopped at Moe's Southwest Grill for dinner.

I ordered a fully dressed taco it was a crispy corn tortilla with chicken, pico de gallo, corn chowder, homemade Guacamole, sour cream and and cheese dip with chips.

 Hubby ordered a Home-wrecker  

It was served on a flour tortilla with seasoned rice, beans, shredded cheese, pico de gallo with lettus, sour cream and guacamole.
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Taco with chips and cheese dip

We walked next door to Sweet CeCe's Frozen Yogurt.
$3.99 was the cost to fill your cup with yogurt and goodies.
I filled mine with strawberry yogurt and five chocolate covered almonds.
What a way to end the day.