Millen – Building a better South

November 12, 2014November 6, 2014

Old commercial building, Millen, Ga.

VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown believes this three-story building in Millen, Ga., once served as a hotel or a bank. Another view.

Millen, which had a population of 3,492 in 2000, 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.

January 12, 2014

Car wash, Millen, Ga.

The bright color and mural on this car wash in Millen, Ga., caught the discerning eye of VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown.

January 8, 2014November 16, 2014

Abandoned 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.