Lorman, Mississippi: Ghost Town of Rodney

Some friends and I checked out Rodney late one night in the summer of 2003. There were several old homes, buildings, and a church with a cannon ball stuck in the front wall. In addition it seems that Rodney has been overtaken by a local hunting community -- at one half of the area there were lived-in homes and flayed deer in spotlights. The latter certainly added something primal and disturbing to my experience of the place. Didn't see any people, but they're there.

Mississippi ghost town. I've not made the trip to Rodney yet but I have found a lot of info on the town. Before the Civil War this was the largest city on the Mississippi River between Memphis and New Orleans and even missed being chosen as the state capital by one vote! Very few now have heard of the town. Its demise started at the end of the war when the river changed course and left the port town landlocked. Soon after a fire almost destroyed the entire town. The final blow came when the railroad came through the town of Fayette, 15 miles east.

There's a town in South Central Mississippi called Rodney. Population zero. Modern, boarded up buildings. One of two towns with no population. The other is an old Natchez trace town that was abandoned years ago.