Behind the Four Corners Bank in Allentown, Ga., is this decaying facility, the old Hardwicke-Etter Ginning Systems building.
It’s located in Wilkinson County across a field from the old Melton store, also closed.
Today, Wilkinson County has fewer people (9,577 in the 2012 Census estimate) than it did in the 1940s (11,025 people) when my dad was a boy here before moving to the “big city” of Macon with his family. About three in five people are white, with most of the rest being black. Poverty is about 20 percent.
- More from QuickFacts from the U.S. Census.
- More from Wikipedia.
Copyrighted photo taken Feb. 16, 2014, by Andy Brack. All rights reserved.