Moon Lake is an

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located in

Coahoma County Coahoma County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26,151. Its county seat is Clarksdale. The Clarksdale, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Coahoma County. It is loc ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

, United States. Moon Lake is approximately south of Lula and approximately north of Coahoma. The community of Moon Lake is located along Moon Lake.

Moon Lake Casino

In 1926, the Clarksdale Elks Club built a lodge on Moon Lake. The property changed ownership in 1936, and the Moon Lake Casino was opened there.

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the thre ...

visited Moon Lake Casino, and referred to it in all but two of his plays. Sarah Wright, who has owned the property since 1985, stated, "they loved to go to the Moon Lake Casino, because the place served

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steaks and even flew in

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from

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, no easy task as airplane travel was then in its infancy. That was Tennessee's introduction to this place."

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...

also visited the place, and referred to it in one of his novels as "Moon Lake Hotel." Other writers and musicians, including

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and W.C. Handy, also visited and wrote about the property. In 1946, new owners named it "Uncle Henry's Place." A historic marker was placed there in 2008 by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

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Uncle Henry's Place
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