Location
At the intersection of Second Street and Sunflower Avenue in Indianola, Mississippi, is a 2-acre lot that symbolizes Blues history in many ways. The lot is skirted by railroad tracks that once carried Bluesmen away from Indianola to seek their fortunes in Memphis or Chicago. It also brought Bluesmen into this small Delta town to play for the locals and, on occasion, even play at a legendary juke joint, now known as Club Ebony.

A young Riley B. King watched the train and its passengers come and go as he worked at a brick cotton gin that still stands on the site. As a teenager, he could never have dreamed that one day that gin would be part of the B.B. King Museum, a place built
in his honor.

In 2002, the City of Indianola donated the 2.3-acre site to the B.B. King Museum Foundation. Renovation of the old gin, as well as construction of additional buildings on the museum campus, will transform the site into a world-class facility that houses artifacts from B.B. King’s 60-year career and interprets the legacy of Mississippi
Delta Blues.