Tupelo, Mississippi

Along the Natchez Trace we found some other locations worth mentioning. At the city of Tupelo (MP260) we toured the birthplace of ‘the king’ – that’s right - Elvis Presley. Elvis was born in 1935 in a small 2-room house on ‘the wrong side of the tracks’. It’s amazing that from this humble beginning he met with such success, and at such an early age. He was recording music by the age of 18, and bought Graceland in Memphis for his parents in his early 20s.