VanishingSouthGeorgia.com photographer Brian Brown sent along this picture of the old Parker Store (ca. 1927) in rural Wilkinson County in central Georgia.
Brown writes, “According to Keith Colson, Mrs. Pearl Parker opened this store in 1927 and operated it until her death in 1970. Her daughter, Henry Belle Whitaker, kept it open until 1980. I’m unsure as to the actual community in which it is located, but it’s north of Irwinton on US Highway 441.”
Today, Wilkinson County has fewer people (9,577 in the 2012 Census estimate) than it did in the 1940s (11,025 people). About three in five people are white, with most of the rest being black. Poverty is about 20 percent.
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Copyrighted photo by Brian Brown. Used by permission. All rights reserved.