Golf in Lyon

Lyon is a small Coahoma County community in the Mississippi Delta near Clarksdale, the Coahoma County seat that has emerged as the recognized capital of the American blues heritage tradition. The Delta Blues Museum, Crossroads marker, Ground Zero Blues Club, and the storied Riverside Hotel have created an authentic cultural destination that draws music pilgrims from across the world. The agricultural landscape of flat Delta fields and small communities like Lyon provides the geographic and historical context for the blues tradition that originated in this exact landscape. The small communities around Clarksdale collectively form the cultural landscape where the Delta blues tradition developed in the early twentieth century, making even modest communities like Lyon part of a world-significant musical heritage.