April 30, 2021
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The Edmund Orgill Park offers fishing, disc golf right, and picnic pavilions. The 6,436 yard, Par 72 yard course, established in 1972, is suitable for every skill level. The course was also listed among Golf Advisor’s Top 25 Most Improved Course List for 2016.

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April 30, 2021
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The historical marker reads: Robert Calvin Bland enjoyed a long and highly successful career as blues singer and songwriter “Bobby Blue Bland.” He spent his childhood in the community of Barretville. By age 11, he was singing for drivers of mule-drawn cotton wagons at the Barret Company gin (northeast of this site), thus earning as much as 50 cents for each rendition of country and western tunes. In less public settings, and away from his disapproving grandmother, he sang the…

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Now the Water Christian Church, this church was built in 1871 for the New Hope Church congregation that was founded ca. 1835 and is representative of 1870 rural church architecture.

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April 30, 2021
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A rural agricultural district with architecture spanning ca. 1890 to 1960, the district retains a number of Queen Anne, late Gothic Revival, and Craftsman dwellings as well as associated agricultural buildings .

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