Better Days; Cossie Delk’s Store And Two Abandoned Farmhouses

This was Cossie Delk’s country store. Read on and I’ll tell you a little about it. In the backgroundyou can see an old smokehouse and part of a garage. (click to enlarge)All images made with a Fujifilm X-E5Whenever I see an old abandoned building, house, factory, store or such, I find myself spending a little time thinking about what stories the old place could tell. Who lived in the old homestead? Was anyone born in the house? How many kids grew up there? What sort of games did they play in the yard? What kind of work did the father do? Did anyone die in the house? What memories still live today from someone who may have lived there? Why did they just abandon the property? Did they just walk away? Why was it left to just let time take its toll? As for businesses and factories, what was made in that factory? Who owned it? Was it family owned? How many generations worked there? How many people were employed there? You get my drift. Lots of question and, I’m sure, history. Because of…