Peavine

Charley Patton's "Pea Vine Blues" turned a small Delta railroad branch into a song. In it a lover leaves on a train that ran to and from Dockery, and Patton sings, "I think I heard the Pea Vine when it blowed." He cut it at his 1929 Paramount session. The junction sat where the Southern met the Dog, a line he also sang about, just a few miles south of Dockery Farms. Few blues titles name such a modest piece of track.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dockery Farms — 6.6 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 11 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Mound Bayou — 12 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 18 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Gospel and the Blues — 2.5 mi
• Adath Israel Temple — 2.7 mi
• Chrisman Street — 2.7 mi
• The Enlightenment of W.C. Handy — 2.8 mi