Dockery Plantation
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Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place wher
Dockery Farms in 2005
Dockery Plantation Mississippi Blues Trail marker
Howlin' Wolf
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Chester Arthur Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into ele
Dockery Plantation
…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. The plantation was started in 1895 by Will Dockery (1865–1936), a graduate…
Howlin' Wolf in 1970