Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park & Campground

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The History of Bill Monroe’s Music Park
By 1939, the Great Depression had ended, and Hoosiers had some money in their pockets. More folks had access to automobiles and most had a little bit of free time after church on Sunday afternoons. So rural Hoosiers gathered at each other’s homes, turned on the radio, and listened to variety and comedy shows and country music. Sometimes they got out their own fiddles, rolled back the rugs, and danced, much as they had since the previous century.

Bean Blossom was a quaint, small town in Brown County, Indiana, just a few miles north of the Town of Nashville on State Road 135. Without a movie theater and the town’s only tavern closed on Sundays, people were looking for something to do. Dan Williams owned a lunch counter/filling station at the corner of State Roads 135 & 45 in Bean Blossom. Occasionally musicians would gather at his filling station and would play country and hillbilly tunes, hearing many of the country songs from the radio broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry. One day a man in a truck with a speaker system was passing through town and stopped at the filing station. He set up his speakers and played amplified music from records. This amplified music began to draw people to the filling station and seeing the interest in the music, some of the locals decided to put on free music shows.
5163 N State Rd 135
Bean Blossom, Indiana 46160
(800) 414-4677
Location
Morgantown, United States
Email
info@billmonroemusicpark.com
Phone
812.988.6422

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Name: Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park & Campground
Address: 5163 Indiana Highway 135, 5163 Indiana Highway 135, Morgantown, Indiana, 46160, United States, Morgantown, Indiana, 46160, United States
Telephone: 812.988.6422