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Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) 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. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Dockery was born in Love, Mississippi, [4] and went on to graduate from the University of Mississippi in 1885. He left the family farm and purchased, with a $1000 gift from his grandmother, tracts of forest and marshland outside of Cleveland, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta between the Yazoo River and the Sunflower River.
Grapes grow on a vine at Galloway Family Farm near Ocean Springs, where visitors can learn about how to grow food on a small, family-run farm. He has more than 3,000 plants on a 1-acre plot, next ...
The Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms were started in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1936; and Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1939, respectively.The farms were founded and run by missionary evangelist and author Sherwood Eddy, and Reverend Sam H. Franklin, with the goal of helping southern sharecroppers out of their economic plight (caused in part by side effects of the New Deal's ...
Blantonia Plantation House is a historic Southern plantation of Blantonia in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi.John Blanton and Martha Belton "Patsy" Whitaker established the plantation in the early 1800s.
The McGehee Plantation is a historic site and former cotton plantation, located at 50 Ed Nelson Drive in Senatobia, Mississippi. [1] The mansion has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 3, 2007, for its architectural significance.
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