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Gone: A Photographic Plea for Preservation
Photographs from Gone: A Photographic Plea for Preservation by Nell Dickerson
Nell Dickerson
This circa 1845-1850 house was photographed a year before Hurricane Katrina in Hancock County, Mississippi. Like so many old homes damaged by flood water and wind, the structure was demolished after the storm.
Nell Dickerson
The facade of Rodney Presbyterian Church in Jefferson County, Mississippi (circa 1832), still bears the scars of the Civil War today. A cannonball from the Union gunboat the USS Rattler remains lodged above the second floor windows.
Nell Dickerson
In 1928, State Highway 66 was constructed near St. Mary's Episcopal Church (circa 1857) in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, blocking public access to the antebellum building forever.
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Tags: Architecture, Civil War
Lives were not all that was lost during the Civil War. Many of the South’s grand antebellum homes that weren’t burned by Union troops were left to fall into decay.











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