The Center for a Better South
The southern Williamsburg County town of Lane, S.C., once was a thriving railroad town, photographer and retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree writes. Now, however, few businesses remain. A number of store fronts are open to the elements; others are boarded up.
Copyrighted photo taken in June 2014, by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.
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.