A Paradise Lost at Montpelier, MS
When I was young, I remember riding down to Starkville with my parents, and we went a route that took us through a small Clay …
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An Old Abandoned Depot at Mantee, MS
Perhaps because Woodland had been a company town, there were few buildings there that were really photogenic, but a few miles south, the town of …
Remnants of a Company Town at Woodland, MS
The village of Woodland in Chickasaw County, Mississippi is probably best known today for being the home of Woodland Furniture, which proudly boasts of being …
Old and New in New Houlka, MS
Houlka, Mississippi, in Chickasaw County, was one of the first settlements in North Mississippi, and was the site of an Indian Agency. It thrived early, …
No Future In Future City
Perhaps the only fate worse than being an abandoned city is being the suburb of an abandoned city, but such is the fate of the …
Preservation and Loss At Hickman, KY
I had only been to Hickman, Kentucky on one previous occasion, back when I was in college at the University of Tennessee at Martin. It …
A Forgotten Depot at Matson Switch
Taking the road from Union City, Tennessee to Hickman, Kentucky, I had no sooner crossed into Kentucky when I saw something rather incongruous- a railroad …
Walking The Riverwalk: Untapped Potential in Morgan City
I could have driven the more prosaic way from New Orleans to Lafayette, but I decided instead to go the back way from the West …
6/17/10: A Thursday Evening on the Square in Oxford MS
On a Thursday evening after work, I drove down to Oxford, Mississippi to eat dinner and shop at my favorite bookstore, Square Books, and then …
West Monroe’s Antique Alley
The main street of downtown West Monroe, Louisiana is known as Trenton Street after the town’s original name before it was renamed West Monroe. The …