Church, Left Behind.

Church Left Behind 2, originally uploaded by Delany Dean.

Yesterday when I was going to the jail in Pattonsburg, MO to do an evaluation, I took a back road, and used the Google Maps application on my phone. It told me to turn off on a little road, and then... it told me I was there. But nobody else was there... it was incredibly spooky... I was in a deserted town. It turns out that Pattonsburg was flooded (twice!) in 1993, and after that they simply moved the town 3 miles up the road. What is left is something of a ghost town.

After I finished up at the jail, I drove back to take some pictures. Above is the old Methodist Church, almost entirely engulfed in trees and brush (and poison ivy! I hope I didn't get any of it on my skin!).