VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown writes that this tiny store is about all that’s left in the settlement of Jordan in rural Wheeler County, Ga.
According to 2011 poverty estimates by the U.S. Census, Wheeler County, which had 7,421 people in 2010, had a 42.2 percent poverty rate. What’s remarkable about that is it is one of the few high-poverty counties where the overall rate is higher than the rate for children under 18.
About two thirds of the residents of the south-central Georgia county are white with the remaining almost all black.
Copyrighted photo taken in March 2014 by Brian Brown. All rights reserved.