My sitemeter logs, among other things, “referrals,” which are the sites from which visitors to this blog clicked links to arrive here; and it reveals a steady flow of readers who find this blog by doing websearches on “Choctaw Ridge” or “Where is Choctaw Ridge” or similar variations, no doubt curious about the Bobbie Gentry song.
Choctaw Ridge doesn’t turn up on many sites apart from those with Gentry lyrics. It seems to be an archaic description.
I visited the area in the early 70s with Bobbie Lee herself. At that time I worked with her in Las Vegas. We have remained friends ever since. Much of the area in and around the famed Tallahatche Bridge is not what it was 30 years ago, actually poorer. It is in Chickasaw County, not far from Greenwood Mississippi. The bridge was, back then, almost unuseable. The so-called Choctaw Ridge is just one of many areas identified by the locals as “up on the ridge”, all with various little names. It is unlikely any map would identify the exact location of a Choctaw Ridge, people of the area called the same place different things. I can only say it is a real place, and probably long forgotten by most in the area now.
hello always wanted to where this place was especially The Tallahatchi Bridge as featured in the song, I imagined a huge bridge over a revene
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