Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum

About music history and legends.

The birthplace of the Delta Blues is about 5 miles east of Cleveland on State Highway 8. Dockery Farms was a 28-square-mile cotton plantation and sawmill along the Sunflower River. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Delta State University, and the Dockery Farms Foundation have teamed up to bring the history and culture of the blues back to the area through the local schools.