Mississippi Piney Woods

Front matter

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Opening pages

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Introduction The Piney Woods Early Settlers Folk Architecture Tools Construction The Campground Churches Barns Grist Mills Recycling Materials Conclusion Transcriber’s Notes

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.