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 St. Paul Church: A Delta RelicTucked along Old Highway 49 near Clarksdale’s Hopson Plantation, St. Paul Church, built in 1963, was a spiritual haven for Black sharecroppers on the 4,000-acre estate. |  Vaiden High School, constructed in 1943 in Vaiden, Mississippi, is a historic two-and-a-half-story, U-plan building made of poured monolithic concrete with a low-slope roof hidden behind parapet walls. |  Shaw High School, built in 1923, was designed by architect N.W. Overstreet in Prairie and Italian Renaissance styles. |  The I.T. Montgomery House, located at 302 West Main Street in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was built around 1910 for Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (1847–1924), a former slave of Joseph Davis who co-founded Mound Bayou in 1887. |
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 Po’ Monkey’s Lounge, a legendary juke joint in unincorporated Bolivar County near Merigold, Mississippi, was founded in the early 1960s by Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry. |  In Mississippi's cotton-rich Delta, the abandoned Hollandale Cotton Oil Mill on West Mill Street endures as a relic of early 20th-century industry. |  The Beauty in Neglected Places |  Tucked away in the quiet town of Beaumont, Mississippi, I stumbled upon a forgotten slice of Americana that’s equal parts eerie and captivating. |
 Clarksdale’s Bobo High School, later known as Clarksdale High School, was a historic institution overlooking the Sunflower River in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Designed by architect P.J. Krouse in the Gothic Revival style, the three-story building opened around 1930 and served as a cornerstone of education in the Mississippi Delta. |  Nitta Yuma, a near-ghost town along Highway 61 in Sharkey County, Mississippi, carries a name rooted in the Choctaw language, meaning “trail of the bear.” |
Documenting the abandoned & forgotten before it's gone.
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