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The Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the ghost town of Rodney, Mississippi, is in a severe state of decay.

The historic church was featured in the 2014 James Brown biopic, "Get On Up," directed by Tate Taylor.

Efforts to restore the building have been unsuccessful due to the estimated $1 million cost to move and repair it.

Rodney, Mississippi, is all but a ghost town with only a few reminders of the days when it was a flourishing port on the Mississippi River during the 1800s. It is best known for the Rodney Presbyterian Church that has a cannonball stuck in the front of it that serves as a reminder of when it was fired on during the Civil War.

The Rodney Presbyterian Church has been restored and is structurally safe and sound, but nearby is another church with a dif

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