Augusta and Wynne

From Bald Knob, I headed east across the White River into the small town of Augusta. Founded in 1848, Augusta is the county seat of Woodruff County. The county courthouse here was built in 1900.



Next to the courthouse was an old house I wanted to check in on - the Ferguson House. It was built in 1861, and managed to survive the Civil War (when most of the other buildings here were destroyed). But it looks like the house could not survive our modern era. It is completely gone now,  replaced with nothing but an empty lot of overgrown grass.



But there are still some interesting old homes and buildings here:







From there I continued driving east. I wanted to find another old building that I had taken a picture of in the past, to see it if was still standing. I never did see it, so I'm guessing that it is gone now as well. But I did find a few other things to get pictures of, including this seemingly abandoned looking area. I didn't linger here too long, it felt kinda creepy.



I made it as far as the town of Wynne before I decided to turn around and head home. Wynne is another old Delta town, and it has a nice collection of old buildings. Wynne was hit really hard by a tornado in 2023 (the same storm system that produced the tornado in Little Rock that same day).



And one last picture, before I headed home. It was a warm and muggy day in this little section of the Delta.