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This trail honors Blind Willie McTell, the Piedmont blues master and 12-string virtuoso who spent his youth in Statesboro. His 1928 recording 'Statesboro Blues' became a standard, later electrified into a rock anthem by the Allman Brothers.
Willie McTell Trail is a historical marker in Statesboro, Bulloch County. It is one of 40 historical markers documented in Bulloch County, among 134 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.4483, -81.7804 near Statesboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Statesboro, Georgia (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Dover & Statesboro Railroad, Jaeckel Hotel, and The Fabulous Fifty of 1906 / The Delegates.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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