Dockery Farms Historic District

MS 8 E, Dockery, Mississippi. County/parish: Sunflower.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 31, 2006. NRIS 06000250.

8 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Dockery Plantation

Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73892025

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