Ghost town of Rodney, MS (October 4, 2018)

Between Jackson and Natchez, along the Natchez Trace Parkway, is the ghost town of Rodney. This must have been a church.  I like the arched shutters above the window.

Many churches we saw had cupolas rather than steeples.  An architectural style popular in the mid-1800s?

My Pepa Meek, who farmed cotton, had a similar gas pump outside his house for filling tractors and probably trucks too.  You could see the gasoline (diesel?) level in the glass container on top.

I wonder who last sat in those chairs, and why they left them behind.

Squint or make the photo larger to see the cannonball lodged above the middle window on the second floor. In 1863, the pastor--a Union sympathizer--invited the captain and 18 men from the Rattler, a Union gunboat, to attend a service at the Presbyterian church.  Confederates showed up and took the Union soldiers prisoner.  Word got back to the Rattler, moored on the Mississippi, and cannons were fired upon the church.  The Confederate leader threatened to hang the Union prisoners if the barrage continued; it stopped.  But a cannonball remains lodged in the church wall as a reminder of that long ago day.