Where in Blaine have we been?

Blaine, Mississippi.  In Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta.

Blaine is an un- incorporated little community with some tantalizing remains of the past that would thrill any shutterbug.

Here's what I found online about Blaine, Mississippi:

13 miles north of Indianola on U.S. Highway 49-W and the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Also known as Vance's Crossing, until a conflict with Vance, Mississippi, was renamed to Blaine. Blaine, as a postal stop, was closed in March 1968.

The sun was setting fast, but Gordon and I managed to snap a few pictures to share with you.

This was that same trip that we made to Ruleville, MS, to give a program.

Blaine is closer to Sunflower (the town) than it is to Ruleville.  You may not know that Craig Claiborne, longtime food critic for the New York TImes and author, was from Sunflower in Sunflower County, Mississippi!

Another old cotton gin that I just HAD to photograph.  Now, I don't know this for sure, but I would guess there was first a Fisackerly farm or plantation.

Murray might have been a big corporation farm with a number of gins, or it was a cotton gin company.

If you know for sure, please let me know.

When the Kilmichael Cotton Gin was closed, the gin equipment was sold to a third world country. Apparently many smaller, older gin equipment was shipped overseas.

Anyway, where were we? 

Anywhere I can photograph chickens, you can't drag me away.  Gordon was driving that day, or we might still be in Blaine with me following those chicken around to photograph them! 

I am fascinated by chickens, and I want to raise some here on the farm.

Then there was this very interesting home from the 20's? 30's? Unique design.

Would you call this a bungalo? Could this be one of those rare Sears Roebuck mail-order houses? If you can give this style a name, please let me know.

I love those leaded windows! Notice how the columns get get both thicker and wider... and are covered with shiplap siding?

That is shiplap, is it not? Always love to learn...