Our Pick
Posted on @rawstates
Dockery Farms and the birth of the blues
1900
Sunflower County, Mississippi
Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Charley Patton grew up on this cotton plantation and taught or influenced Son House, Willie Brown and Howlin' Wolf here. B. B. King said if you had to point to one place the blues started, it would be Dockery, a commissary, a cotton gin and a few thousand acres.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
This place has its own thread on r/rawstates
Read what people are saying about it, or add your own.