Dockery Plantation

The Dockery Plantation was a 60 km ² large cotton farm near Ruleville in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The plantation employs several hundred workers who lived with their families on the premises and had its own village-like infrastructure, there were, among others, a dry goods store, a furniture store, a church, a cemetery, a sawmill, and even a train station. The workers were sometimes paid in its own currency.

Founded in 1895 by Will Dockery, conducted in 1906 by Joe Rice Dockery and until 1982 under his leadership in operation, it employed the early 20th century at times the bluesmen Charley Patton. With its increasing fame numerous other blues musicians moved to there, including Son House, Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Howlin 'Wolf, John Lee Hooker and many more. Thus, the Dockery Plantation became famous as " the birthplace of the Delta Blues". Today it is a tourist attraction because of this reputation.

• Blues
• Sunflower County
• Culture ( Mississippi)