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.
