Category: Georgia

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Tenant farmhouse, Isabella, Ga.

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Tenant farmhouse, Isabella, Ga.

Here’s a dilapidated, crumbling tenant farmhouse in the Isabella of rural Worth County, which is located between Albany and Tifton in the central part of South Georgia.  The county is home to Peter Pan Peanut Butter.  Every jar made is produced in the county seat, Sylvester.

The county had about 21,300 people in 2013, according to the Census with whites representing 68.7 percent and blacks being 29.6 percent. Some 22 percent of people live below poverty levels, according to Census figures.

Photo by Brian Brown from VanishingSouthGeorgia.com is copyrighted.  All rights reserved

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Tison Grocery, Doles, Ga.

T.W. Tison Grocery, Doles, Ga.
T.W. Tison Grocery, Doles, Ga.

This is the old T.W. Tison Grocery in Doles, Ga., in rural Worth County.  Stores like this used to dot rural landscapes but many, as highlighted by Brian Brown in VanishingSouthGeorgia.com, are wasting away and closed.

Worth County, which is located between Albany and Tifton in the central part of South Georgia, is home to Peter Pan Peanut Butter.  Every jar made is produced in the county seat, Sylvester.  The county had about 21,300 people in 2013, according to the Census with whites representing 68.7 percent and blacks being 29.6 percent. Some 22 percent of people live below poverty levels, according to Census figures.

Photo by Brian Brown is copyrighted.  All rights reserved

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Boarded up, Eldorado, Ga.

Eldorado, Ga.
Eldorado, Ga.

VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown snapped this photo in 2008 of two boarded-up buildings in Eldorado, Ga., a few miles south of Tifton, Ga.

Tift County, population 40,286 in 2013, is an old agricultural market center that thrived a century and more ago thanks to lumber, cotton and other agricultural products.  Today, it is home to Abraham Baldwin College.  It continues to be a transportation as it is bisected by Interstate 75.  U.S. Highways 82 and 319 also intersect in the county.

About two thirds of Tift residents are white; about a third are black.  About 10 percent of people also identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census.  The county’s poverty rate is 22.9 percent (2008-2012), but just over 30 percent in the county seat, Tifton (population 16,405).

Photo by Brian Brown, VanishingSouthGeorgia.com.  All rights reserved.

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Abandoned farmhouse, Tift County, Ga.

Abandoned farmhouse, Tift County, Ga.
Abandoned farmhouse, Tift County, Ga.

 

There are a lot of abandoned farmhouses and great old buildings throughout Tift County, Ga., in the middle of wiregrass country, as documented here at VanishingSouthGeorgia.com by photographer Brian Brown.

Tift County, population 40,286 in 2013, is an old agricultural market center that thrived a century and more ago thanks to lumber, cotton and other agricultural products.  Today, it is home to Abraham Baldwin College.  It continues to be a transportation as it is bisected by Interstate 75.  U.S. Highways 82 and 319 also intersect in the county.

About two thirds of Tift residents are white; about a third are black.  About 10 percent of people also identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census.  The county’s poverty rate is 22.9 percent (2008-2012), but just over 30 percent in the county seat, Tifton (population 16,405).

Photo by Brian Brown.  All rights reserved.

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Store, Jordan, Ga.

Tiny store, Wheeler County, Ga.
Tiny store, Wheeler County, Ga.

This store, which VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown writes is about all that’s left in the settlement of Jordan in rural Wheeler County, Ga., looks remarkably similar to a building pictured here in Orangeburg County, S.C., more than 200 miles away.

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.

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All that’s left, Jordan, Ga.

Tiny store, Jordan, Ga.
Tiny store, Jordan, Ga.

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.

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Storefronts, Alamo, Ga.

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VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown offers this view of storefronts along Railroad Street in Alamo, Ga., as well as several other photos of the area around Wheeler County’s seat of government.

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.

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Water towers, Alamo, Ga.

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Here’s a view of Railroad Street in Alamo, Ga., the seat of government in Wheeler County, which has the highest rate of poverty in the state.

VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown writes:  “The modern independent hardware store in the foreground is a nice contrast to the old agricultural warehouses and water towers. Dot H. Brown writes that her father, J. F. Hattaway and his business partner Cecil Carroll built and operated the cotton gin and warehouses until about 1970.”

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.

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Old tenant house near Dublin, Ga.

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VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown sent along this photo of an old tenant house near Dublin, Ga., in Laurens County.

Dublin suffered during the recent recession as the unemployment rate for Laurens County, where Dublin (population 16,201) is the county seat, rose to  13.8 percent in July 2011.  Two years later it was about two points lower, but was down to 9.4 percent in December 2013, according to federal government data found at this site.

Some 23.6 percent of residents of Laurens County (population 48,434) live in poverty, according to Census data

Photo by Brian Brown.  All rights reserved.

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Storefronts, Glenwood, Ga.

Storefronts, Glenwood, Ga.
Storefronts, Glenwood, Ga.

VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown snapped this image of storefronts in rural Glenwood, Ga., population 884.

Glenwood is in Wheeler County, one of the poorest counties in the Southern Crescent.  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 by Brian Brown.  All rights reserved.