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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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Abandoned house, Millen, Ga.

Joseph and Lucinda Applewhite House, Millen, Ga.
Joseph and Lucinda Applewhite House, Millen, Ga.

VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown writes that this old Neoclassical Revival home is currently for sale in Millen in eastern Georgia.  The house, said to have been built in 1892-93 and named the “Joseph and Lucinda Applewhite House,” reportedly did not have the columns when originally built in the Queen Anne style.  The columns were said to have been added in the 1980s during a renovation.

One person who saw the photo of the home in Millen, which had a population of 3,492 in 2000, wrote, “There’s nothing lonelier than an abandoned house.  Oh, the memories that were made there.”

Millen is the county seat of Jenkins County, which was home to 9,213 people, according to the U.S. Census in 2012, an increase of 10 percent from two years earlier. Almost 30 percent of residents live in poverty.

Photo by Brian Brown, 2013.  All rights reserved.

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Paradise Restaurant, Cooperville, Georgia

Empty Paradise Hotel, Cooperville, Ga.
Empty Paradise Hotel, Cooperville, Ga.

The old Paradise Restaurant, which apparently suffered a fire in recent years, is closed, as is the gas station at right.  Both are adjacent to a spooky old motel featured on Halloween in this post.

The complex is in Cooperville at the intersection of U.S. Highway 301 and Georgia Highway 17 in Screven County, Ga., which got started after the Revolutionary War and soon became part of the Black Belt of Georgia where cotton became an important staple crop tended by enslaved African Americans.

The county’s population jumped from 3,019 in 1800 to 8,274 by 1860, according to Census figures.  While it had 14,593 people in 2010, the county lost an estimated 391 people — 2.7 percent — by 2012, according to the U.S. Census.  In 2010, Some 25.4 percent of county residents lived below the federal poverty level, 9 points higher than the state average.

Photo taken Sept. 23, 2013, by Andy Brack.  All rights reserved.