Tupelo Essential Info
Overview
Tupelo is a city in Northeast Mississippi that is known best for being the birthplace of Elvis Presley.
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Basics
Best Time To Go
Mar-Oct
Current Time
Current Weather
53 °F
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Fun Facts
- The very last man Babe Ruth ever hit a homer off, was Guy Bush from Tupelo.
- The king of rock and roll, Elvis Presely, was born in Tupelo.
- The last known bank robbery by Machine Gun Kelly, a Prohibition-era gangster, took place on November 30, 1932 at the Citizen’s State Bank in Tupelo.
- In 2013, Gale Stauffer of the Tupelo Police Department died in a shootout following a bank robbery, possibly the first officer killed in the line of duty in the Department's history.
- The Tupelo Automobile Museum is one of the largest of this type in North America.
Popular Foods
- Blackened Mississippi Catfish
- Southern Fried Quail