Woodville 11/12/2005; back to counties

Woodville is the southwest-most county seat. This is remote country. More fairly, to the people who live here it probably seems normal. To us it was remote. It's just above Louisiana. Angola prison is in Louisiana, just below the border.

On highway 24, just a little less than 20 miles west of Woodville is Ft. Adams and we stopped in Ft. Adams. Ft. Adams was referred to in the short story Man Without A Country. The protagonist requested to be buried someplace that people wouldn't mind because it was out of the way, for example, he said, Ft. Adams. That was a good choice. Ft. Adams is certainly out of the way. There's not much there. The road terminates. There's nothing but deer and cow trails that leave the town. (Okay, there are a couple of dirt roads, but I wouldn't take them.) There's also no marker commemorating the literary significance. The marker describes the first church in the Lower Mississippi valley.