Walking down the street, Lumber City, Ga.

Pedestrian, Lumber City, Ga.  Photo by Brian Brown.
Pedestrian, Lumber City, Ga. Photo by Brian Brown.

Vanishing South Georgia photographer Brian Brown offers this photo of a pedestrian walking down a Lumber City, Ga., street that has a medical clinic behind the bright red doors.

Lumber City has about 1,300 people, a third of whom live in poverty.  It’s on the eastern tip of Telfair County, which as 16,349 people, according to the 2012 Census estimate.  Just over 60 percent of residents are white.  About 36 percent are black.  About 13 percent of people consider themselves to be Hispanic or Latino.  As with Lumber City, a third of the county’s population lives in poverty.

2012 copyrighted photo by Brian Brown.  All rights reserved.