On Holly Ridge Road, 0.2 miles west of Holly Ridge Holmes Road, on the left when traveling west.
The most important figure in the pioneering era of Delta blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934), helped define not only the musical genre but also the image and lifestyle of the rambling Mississippi bluesman. He roamed the Delta using Dockery as his most . . . — — Map (db m170525) HM
On Heathman Road, 0.3 miles east of U.S. 82, on the right when traveling east.
Built in 1911, this building served as a
commissary, a post office, a voting precinct,
and a medical office for the Heathman Plantation.
Established in 1871 by J.M. Heathman, the
property was on the site of an earlier plantation
known as . . . — — Map (db m170315) HM
