Peavine Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/2/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Welcome to Boyle, MS.

The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a historic marker at the Peavine Railroad site intersection with Highway 446 in Boyle, designating it as a site on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker commemorates the original lyrics of famed blues artist Charlie Patton's "Peavine Blues" which describes the railway branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which ran south from Dockery Plantation to Boyle. A common theme of blues songs was riding on the railroad which was a metaphor for travel and escape. A term such as `peavine' came to be known as general railroad slang for any winding branch line.

The Pea Vine route was served by a train which left Cleveland at 4.00a.m. on a two-mile run south to Boyle. Lacking a roundhouse (that's access to a turntable for the locomotive) the Pea Vine was compelled to back its way from Boyle to Dockery's plantation depot. The train ran "head first" from Dockery's to Rosedale on the Mississippi and returned to Cleveland in the evening." . The whole trip covering some 60 miles.

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