Rodney

Rodney was a busy Mississippi River port founded in 1828 that lost out when a sandbar moved the river miles away in the 1860s, then lost most of its buildings to an 1869 fire and the railroad to Fayette. The red-brick Presbyterian church of about 1832 has a curved parapet and a cannonball in its wall from a Civil War shelling incident in 1863, though the ball there now is a later replacement. The town was disincorporated in 1930 and the church's ownership and condition are uncertain.