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Tennessee, North of Memphis

A view of some farmers crops in the New Madrid Bend area. This area is part of Kentucky but the only
way of getting to it by automobile is going through Tennessee. The Mississippi goes south into Tennessee,
makes a westward u-turn and then another westward u-turn. The land in the first (easternmost) u-turn is
split between Missouri and Tennessee. The westernmost u-turn's land is split between Kentucky and Tennessee.
From Kentucky's southwestern tip of its main body, one has to cross the river, a portion of Missouri and then
the river again to reach this land. (This make sense?)

Dywer County, Tn courthouse. Nothing special about it but on this day I just didn't take that
many pictures. So I included this one: I'm not sure how close this town was to the river.

Fort Pillow State Historic Park. Another park located at a Civil War Site. This is a
refurbished earthwork batteries that protected river batteries from land attacks. From the
visitor's center I followed arrows for an hour to get to this earthwork; if I would have gone
against the arrows I could have gotten here in less than 30 minutes.

One reason the arrows pointed the long way may have been this bridge. I crossed it but
wondered about its soundness. I saw know sign saying "do not use" but a path arrow seem to
point to a path that may have gone around the bridge and the ravine it crossed.

My last site was Meeman Shelby Forest State Park. It was heavily forested and contained some
deep ravines but I stopped no where to take a picture. Just on the outside of the park was this
general store. World Famous Hamburgers were served here. In Cairo, Il I had the "best barbecue
in town"; the night before I ate at a catfish place that served the "best catfish in the Universe";
so why not eat a "world famous hamburger". I enjoyed the hamburger more than the others but I'm
not sure about this "world famous" claim.

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