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Ma Rainey's house
1900
Fifth Avenue, Columbus, Georgia
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Gertrude Pridgett started singing in tent shows as a teenager, married into them, and worked out on the road what a blues record would sound like years before anybody made one. She recorded about a hundred sides in the twenties, taught Bessie Smith the business, wore a necklace of gold coins on stage, and bought this house with the money. She came home to it and died here.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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