A roadside marker tied to Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 Mississippi bear hunt and the story that helped inspire the name "teddy bear." The event's popular retelling has become part of American toy folklore, making this a compact but meaningful OddWay stop.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: visitmississippi.org/trip-ideas/mississippi-eccentricities-you-have-to-see/