Rodney Bryan fertilizes the peanut, cotton, watermelon and corn crops at Cotton Hall.

The landscape is really changing at the old peanut plant next to Cotton Hall.

Just as you turn off the Colquitt Square onto Main Street heading west, you would think you are back on the farm.

Since planting season, Rodney Bryan has broken the land that has been under old buildings and was later part of a peanut plant for the past 50 or 100 years. It was not the best land to plant, but Rodney has a good-looking crop of peanuts, corn, cotton and watermelons growing right here in downtown Colquitt. The people who come to the Mayhaw productions and Swamp Gravy productions will be happy to see where these crops come from.

Birdsong Peanut Co. donated this large lot to the Colquitt/ Miller Arts Council last year. They have been moving the old equipment and clearing the lot.

Recently, an old-fashioned cedar rail fence was installed on the Main Street side and next to the crops.

The ladies of the Colquitt Garden Club have landscaped the rail fence with the help of Mr. Charlie Boyd and his boys who did the hard work, compliments of the Miller County Sheriff's Department and the County Jail.

Front row, L-R): Libba Fudge and Iva Tabb get ready to mulch the flower beds next to Cotton Hall.

This fence is fragile and is not to be climbed or sat on. It is placed just as they were in days of old, just laid one slat on top of the other.

Things are looking up around Cotton Hall, and the flowers will be blooming along the street in a few days.