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 The Landing was a casual roadside restaurant in Texas. It served locals and travelers for years before closing permanently and sitting empty. |  Salem Church A.M.E. began in the 1870s as one of Willis’s very first congregations, organized by Black farmers before any white churches existed in town. |  The Silence of Urban Decay |  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. |
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 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. |  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 |
Documenting the abandoned & forgotten before it's gone.
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