Mississippi Piney Woods: A Photographic Study of Folk Architecture

by Patti Carr Black

Mississippi Piney Woods:
a photographic study of folk architecture

by
Patti Carr Black

an exhibition
at the
Mississippi State Historical Museum

Cover photograph: Grist mill at Lake Bounds, Clarke County

MISSISSIPPI PINEY WOODS
a photographic study of folk architecture

by
Patti Carr Black

Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Jackson, Mississippi
1976
Reprinted 1980

Tennessee Hills Black Prairie Pontotoc Ridge Flat Woods North Central Hills Jackson Prairie Brown Loam and Loess Hills Delta PINEY WOODS

My appreciation and thanks to the many residents of the Piney Woods who gave me directions, information, and access to their homes, especially Miss Gertie Ainsworth, Hulan Purvis, Bob and Patricia Harris, Clarence Smith, Charles A. McGee, S. D. Sullivan, and Mrs. L. E. Turner.