| Rodney Baptist Church Jefferson County Mississippi |
| Also known as Mt. Zion Baptist Church No. 1, Rodney Baptist Church was constructed in 1850 and the building combines elements of both Greek Revival and Gothic Revival. It's one of two churches still standing in the ghost town of Rodney. This church is in a more precarious situation than Rodney's Presbyterian Church, because the ground around it tends to hold water. On the day my family visited, the Presbyterian Church was high and dry, but they had to wade through water mid-calf deep to reach the Baptist Church, as you'll see in the photos below. Due to repeated flooding, the interior of the building is in very poor condition. |
| The pictures on this page were taken by my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter on a recent trip to Claiborne, Jefferson and Adams Counties. They visited historic churches, cemeteries and a synagogue in Port Gibson. They strolled through the haunting ghost towns of Rocky Springs and Rodney and visited their ancient cemeteries. They took photos in cemeteries that author Eudora Welty photographed in the 1930's, when they had already been abandoned by towns that had all but ceased to be. And they wondered at the fragile nature of the monuments we build, believing that they will last forever. -- Nancy (May, 2019) |
| The link to this page is: http://old-new-orleans.com/Rodney_Baptist_Church.html Other pages about Rodney: Ghosts Along the RIver: The Old Port of Rodney 1843 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Rodney Recollections of Rodney, pub. 1885 Rodney Cemetery Rodney Presbyterian Church ~ ~ ~ Back to Road Trip Index My G-Grandfather's Attic - Home Whispers |
| On the exterior of the building, you can see the water marks all the way up to the windows left by the most recent flood. |