Binnsville, Mississippi
Binnsville (variant name Binnville) is a ghost town in Kemper County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving commercial and educational center, nothing remains of Binnsville but a church and cemetery. History The earliest record of settlement was the Chapman (or Chatam) Church, organized about 1840. It was later known as the Prairie Church, and then the Binnsville United Methodist Church, rebuilt in 1974. The settlement's namesake, George Binn, located to the area in the 1870s and opened a store with a post office. Binnsville was the center of a rich farming region, with access to a riverboat port on the Noxubee River about north. By the late 1800s, Binnsville's population had grown to approximately 500, and it was described as "a bustling town" and "a thriving and prosperous community". The settlement had as many as 16 stores, a post office, two drug stores, three churches, a Masonic Grand Lodge, a cotton gin and a grist mill. Binnsville Cemetery was located south o ...
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Ghost Town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason (e.g. a host ore deposit exhausted by mining). The town may have also declined because of natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged Drought, droughts, extreme heat or extreme cold, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, nuclear and radiation-related accidents and incidents. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighborhoods that, though still populated, are significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific ...
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