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✨ Built in 1851, this Greek Revival church has witnessed generations of history in the small town of Dayton, Alabama. It...
09/06/2026

✨ Built in 1851, this Greek Revival church has witnessed generations of history in the small town of Dayton, Alabama. Its walnut pews (featured in the photos below) once had a partition down the middle (ladies on one side, men on the other) while enslaved people worshipped in the basement with a separate preacher.

The church originally featured a tall steeple and bell, but the steeple had to be removed in the early 1900s when it began to lean. In 1936, the building was photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey, preserving its architecture and story for future generations.

Though no longer in use, the church still stands today- looking much the same as it did nearly a century ago when these photos were taken.

📸 Library of Congress, HABS collection

✨ Happy Sunday from Sheldon Church in South Carolina! (Did you spot me 👋🏼 waving in the photo?)Sheldon Church was first ...
09/06/2026

✨ Happy Sunday from Sheldon Church in South Carolina! (Did you spot me 👋🏼 waving in the photo?)

Sheldon Church was first established between 1745 and 1753 and was closely tied to the Bull family, who are buried on this property. During the Revolution, the church was burned, leaving behind only the brick walls that still stand today.

In 1825-26, it was rebuilt and stood through the Civil War, even surviving Sherman’s destructive March to the Sea. But after the war, the building was dismantled, its materials repurposed to build shelters for newly freed people in the community.

Today, you can still visit the Old Sheldon Church Ruins, strolling beneath massive moss-draped oaks as you listen for the echoes of the past.

📍 Old Sheldon Church Ruins – Yemassee, Beaufort County, South Carolina

✨I found this old church along a quiet road in Pointe Coupee Parrish, Louisiana.
09/06/2026

✨I found this old church along a quiet road in Pointe Coupee Parrish, Louisiana.

✨Spotted on the backroads of Madison County, North Carolina- this place was home to the Reeves Family at one point.
09/05/2026

✨Spotted on the backroads of Madison County, North Carolina- this place was home to the Reeves Family at one point.

✨Old farmhouse in the hills of Wythe County, Virginia.
09/05/2026

✨Old farmhouse in the hills of Wythe County, Virginia.

Spotted across a farm field, I had to slam on my brakes to turn around and find a path so I could see this place closer....
09/05/2026

Spotted across a farm field, I had to slam on my brakes to turn around and find a path so I could see this place closer. It doesn't look like much, but I could tell that it was important to someone at some point.

I did some research and learned that it was built in 1900 as the Caldwell School, located in Orange County, North Carolina. I had hoped to peek in the window to get a better look inside, but the copper head snake out front had other plans.

I went back to see it the following winter and the building had been demolished. It's always sad to see these places disappear from the landscape, but it motivates me all the more to get out and document as much as I can before they're all gone.

✨ This old home may be weathered with age, but it wears its years beautifully. I couldn’t help but admire the rusty tin ...
09/05/2026

✨ This old home may be weathered with age, but it wears its years beautifully. I couldn’t help but admire the rusty tin roof, where time and oxidation have painted it in bold, striped patterns. A reminder that even decay can be striking in its own way.

✨Spotted along the backroads of Fauquier County, Virginia
09/04/2026

✨Spotted along the backroads of Fauquier County, Virginia

Visions like this are fading fast in old Florida.While wondering the back roads of Suwannee County one day, I happen upo...
09/04/2026

Visions like this are fading fast in old Florida.

While wondering the back roads of Suwannee County one day, I happen upon this beautiful old farmhouse, surrounded by a tomato farm.

When I went back to check on it a few years later, the house was still standing but the farmland had been swallowed up by solar panels as far as my eyes could see.

✨The Country Doctors HouseThis farmhouse and the adjacent buildings represent a time when access to medical care was rar...
09/04/2026

✨The Country Doctors House

This farmhouse and the adjacent buildings represent a time when access to medical care was rare in rural communities and doctors would offer care from their own homes or during house calls.

Dr. J.L. McLean in Tattnall County, Georgia was one of these doctor and he operated an office here, beside his home, from 1870 until 1910.

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