Helena, AR Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The small Mississippi port of HELENA , roughly sixty miles south of Memphis, was once the shipping point for Arkansas's cotton crop, when Mark Twain described it as occupying "one of the prettiest situations on the river." A small historic district bordered by Holly, College and Perry streets reflects that brief period of prosperity, before the arrival of the railroad left most of the river towns obsolete; today Helena's central core is little more than the slightly run-down Cherry Street on the levee. That said, there are three good reasons to visit Helena. Musicians among its large black … more »