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Over the years I’ve been visiting the little ghost town in Mississippi. Although the town isn’t truly a ghost town, its still considered a ghost town now that all of the businesses have closed their doors and many of the houses are abandoned. Today’s post is called the Houses of Rodney, Mississippi.
Houses of Rodney, Mississippi
This collection of houses found in Rodney are a mixture of abandoned houses and houses that are still lived in. Many of the houses and trailers found in town, are owned by out of town hunters. But there are still a few houses that have full time residents. Such as the beautiful house shown below.
This house was built in the early 1860’s by the Snyder family. Eventually the Rietze Family purchased the house and store, but they did not operate the store. At that time Mr. George Schober rented the store for a few years. In 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Alston purchased the store and ran it until 1983. Mrs. Arcola Alston May ran the store and the house until her death in 1983. The house was then moved to its current location in 2011 after one of the floods. – According t0 Angel Pucket Holland.
The Little Red House is one of my favorite houses in town. According to the Rodney History and Preservation Society Facebook Group this old house is currently owned by someone living in Brookhaven, Mississippi. They aren’t sure of the age, but the house has an interesting history. At one time a Doctor live there and decorated his yard with discarded items he found. He was also known for his “impressive garden”. “It was so impressive, the DEA raided and confiscated his crop. He had quite a large crop, which according to him, was for medicinal purposes.” After his death, the property became a hunting camp.–Angel Pucket Holland
As to the rest of the pictures, these are just some random pictures that do not have a known history. As I learn more about the houses I will update this article.
To learn more about Rodney or to make donation to help save this little town, check out the Rodney History & Preservation Society.
About the images
The pictures were taken over the last few years using different equipment for some of the older pictures I used my old Canon EOS Rebel T1i and those images were processed with Adobe Lightroom CC and Topaz Clarity. And some where shot with my Sony a6000 and Sony 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS Power Zoom Lens. I used Topaz Labs A.I. Clear and DXO NIK Collection to clean up the image, remove noise, and recover the lost details.
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