Just over a mile from the beautiful Rosalie mansion lies the Arlington estate. Approaching the derelict brick mansion by way of a dirt track road, which is now part of 55 acres (22.3ha) of untended grounds, it's hard not to be moved by its sorry state, as Leland Kent of Abandoned Southeast discovered on a visit to photograph the space.

Details of the property's early history are sketchy, to say the least, but according to local legend, the land on which Arlington sits was acquired by local sheriff Lewis Evans in the early 1800s. It was reportedly sold on in 1814 to a real estate speculator called Jonathan Thompson.

Why was this Southern Belle mansion mysteriously abandoned?