Old Tomato Barn in Beech Grove, Mississippi

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Back in February 2020 I was out exploring near the Pearl River looking for an old abandoned bridge that crosses the Pearl. As I neared the bridge I came across a very small community referred to as Beech Grove. When looking at Google Map the town doesn’t exist. Today there’s just a few houses, buildings, what remains of an old service station, and a modern church.

Old Tomato Barn in Beech Grove, Mississippi

One of the abandoned Mississippi Facebook Group members found some pictures from the area and we got to commenting back and fourth when I asked about an old barn sitting in a large field near the intersection where the old Beech Groove community was. My contact didn’t have the exact dates but the community moved to its current location about 1900 when the GM&O railroad was built. Today, the railroad is gone, the only evidence left is the rise and fall in the road where the tracks passed through. If you look at the tree line in the back of the images, that’s the old rail line.

At one time, one person owned most the land in the area. The images don’t do it justice. You need to see the area to understand how much the owner had. He had the land between the tracks and the river. On the other side of the road from the farm was the settlement. One of the roads is still a “Front Street” that leads almost to the barn.

The barn sits in the middle of what use to be old an old Tomato Farm. Once again, there aren’t exact dates but the barn was actively used during the tomato boom in Copiah County (lasted until the 1940s). So maybe from the turn of the century to the 1940s was when it was built and used. My contact said it was used for sometime after the boom. It was fixed and repaired over the years and may have been rebuilt over the years. Today, it sits unused or is used for storage.

About the Images

The Old Tomato Barn in Beech Grove, Mississippi images were shot on a gloomy rainy day. When I shot the barn it was raining hard and you can see the rain in the image. Due to the low light and rain I had to do a lot of editing. I used my Sony a6000 and my Sony SELP18105G E PZ 18-105mm F4 G OSS with a Gobe UV Filter by hand. I then edited the images with Adobe Lightroom CC and Topaz Labs Denoise AI and Topaz Labs Sharpen AI and DXO NIK Collection to clean up the images, remove noise, and recover the lost details.