{"id":1306,"slug":"rodney-historic-district-rodney-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Rodney is the almost — the 'three votes' that's the capital's margin, the '1817' that's the year of loss. The 'river left' is the emptied — the 'changed course' that's the water's betrayal, the 'Petit Gulf' that's the first name. The 'Rattler fired' is the shelled — the 'church service' that's the capture's place, the 'cannonball' that's the scar's form.","The 'opera house' is the cultured — the 'first in state' that's the claim's rank, the 'yellow fever' that's the plague's name. The 'eight left' is the kept — the 'still home' that's the residents' count, the 'Presbyterian' that's the standing church. Rodney is the reached — the 'twelve miles' that's the road's length, the 'curb appears' that's the city's ghost.","The file keeps Rodney: the almost capital, the left river, the shelled church, and the eight who stayed.","Rodney is the archive's Mississippi file — the port the river abandoned."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Rodney is the archive's Mississippi file — the city that lost to Jackson by three votes.","A town keeps its curb — the file's suggestion being that Rodney's hold is the gone: the 'river left' that's the port's death, the 'cannonball' that's the war's mark, and the 'eight' that's the population's remnant."]}],"name":"Rodney Historic District","aliases":["Petit Gulf","Rodney"],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Ghost town in Rodney; research record.","full_desc":"Rodney Historic District is a ghost town in Rodney, Mississippi. Ghost town in Rodney; research record. The society describes a river port prospering after 1830 and decline after river movement, an 1869 fire and railroad diversion. It records an 1863 Confederate capture of Union worshipers and USS Rattler bombardment.","address":null,"city":"Rodney","county":"Jefferson County","state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":31.74463,"lon":-91.00488,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PRIVATE","access_notes":"The preservation society states that all structures in Rodney are private property.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Register of Historic Places","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Town history does not establish public access to buildings. Current occupancy and exact district boundary need enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":62.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"The society describes a river port prospering after 1830 and decline after river movement, an 1869 fire and railroad diversion. It records an 1863 Confederate capture of Union worshipers and USS Rattler bombardment. Rodney Historic District's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'History of Rodney Mississippi' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"History of Rodney Mississippi","url":"https://rodneyhistory.org/history-of-rodney","publisher":"Rodney History & Preservation Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Private property; not open to the public. View only from public rights-of-way where legal; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"History of Rodney Mississippi","url":"https://rodneyhistory.org/history-of-rodney","publisher":"Rodney History & Preservation Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}