Highway 61 Visited, The Confederate Gibraltar, and Reverand Raymond Cooke
December 30th 2008 Highway 61 is the blues highway. It runs from New Orleans north into Memphis and then through St. Louis on into Iowa, Minnesota and on up into Canada. Bessie Smith's life ended on Highway 61. Elvis Presley's life started on Highway 61. According to legend, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads of 61 and 49. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered a few blocks off of Highway
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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more 
