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A sign at Dockery Service Station explains the restoration underway at Dockery Farms thanks to a Save America’s Treasures grant, Aug. 12, 2016, in Cleveland, Mississippi. Dockery Farms was a 25,600-acre cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. The site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Place and part of the Mississippi Blues Trail, includes the service station, cotton gin, and other buildings. Visitors travel from around the world to see the site. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
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A sign at Dockery Service Station explains the restoration underway at Dockery Farms thanks to a Save America’s Treasures grant, Aug. 12, 2016, in Cleveland, Mississippi. Dockery Farms was a 25,600-acre cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. The site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Place and part of the Mississippi Blues Trail, includes the service station, cotton gin, and other buildings. Visitors travel from around the world to see the site. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)