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One Million Views!

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Thanks to you, Vanishing South Georgia has reached a milestone.

As of today, one million views have been recorded on the website! Traffic has grown exponentially since I first launched it back in 2008. The style of the site has also changed from time to time and it continues to evolve. When I started the project, one of the catalysts was the lack of any information, especially imagery, of South Georgia on the internet. My mission has been to share my neck of the woods with the rest of the world, and with your help I’ve succeeded.  I’ve traveled to every county in South Georgia in the past four years and in the process of searching for the most forgotten and most unknown places of the region, I’ve taken over 300,000 photographs. As I’ve said many times before, it wouldn’t be possible without you and your generosity in spreading the word about my work.

Thank You!

(Update: As of 2016, we have now logged over 25 million views across multiple platforms!)

Jones Commissary & Warehouses, Colquitt

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This group of structures on the edge of Colquitt was a mystery to me for many years. Thanks to Katrina Acton, who wrote on our Facebook page: I was raised in Colquitt, Georgia. This was the old store that belonged to Mr. Harry Jones…It was a store where the families who share-cropped for him could get groceries and supplies. The shelters could be used for horses, mules, wagons, farm equipment. I spent many days at this store with his grandson…who we called “pistol ball”. Mr Harry’s wife was Esther Fudge Jones.

The shotgun style commissary likely dates to the 1930s.

There are several warehouses/barns on the property.

This was the 3,000th post on Vanishing South Georgia, and it represented an important milestone for me. After beginning the project in 2006 and the website in 2008, I traveled to every county in the southern half of Georgia. (As of 2016 I’m still shooting everything I can find). Vanishing South Georgia has forced me to slow down and appreciate my surroundings, and daily interactions with those who share the same passion for preserving our heritage reinforces my resolve to continue the work.

 

-What People Are Saying-

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The purpose of this photographic archive is to preserve what is left of the culture of rural South Georgia. I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to document my small corner of the world. Every day, modernization threatens the very fabric of life that has persisted in South Georgia for the better part of two centuries. Tobacco barns, country stores, farmhouses, Confederate icons, African-American vernacular churches, rural schoolhouses and sharecropper shacks are all disappearing at an alarming rate. Because there is no real effort to preserve these structures and the culture they represent, I feel the only way to make them relevant is to share these photographs. I hope you’ll share this blog with as many people as you can. Brian Brown, 13.5.09

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