In eastern Ohio, the story of one railroad mirrored the rise and decline of regional heavy industry. The Lake Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio once carried the materials that built the region’s economy.
Category: History
A 19th-century pig iron blast furnace was more than a single stack: it was a carefully engineered industrial system built into the landscape itself.
Travel into the snowy hills of northern West Virginia to document early three charcoal iron furnaces.
The Mead Paper Company’s Chillicothe Works was one of Ohio’s largest paper mills, symbolizing over a century of industrial progress in Ohio.
The Barnes House, once a prominent residence in the Scioto River Valley, now stands in a state of severe neglect.
The Ravenswood, Spencer & Glenville Railway, incorporated in 1886, once linked Ravenswood and Spencer, West Virginia.
Near Miami, Oklahoma, a nine-foot stretch of pavement survives as the only remaining section of old U.S. Route 66.
Rock Island’s Tucumcari–Amarillo line once linked the Midwest to the Southwest before its decline and dismantling in 1984.
Drive twenty miles east out of Tucumcari on old Route 66 and you’ll land in San Jon, New Mexico, a near-forgotten village.
Two Guns, Arizona, is a ghost town on Route 66 overlooking Canyon Diablo. Once a thriving tourist stop with a zoo, trading post, and “death cave.”
I love exploring old highways for something new and unique—especially places like the Kozy Corner Trailer Court in Antares, Arizona.
Fort Wingate’s history is deeply entwined with U.S. efforts to manage, suppress, and later reconcile relations with the Navajo people.
Tucked into the Grand Canyon, the Bat Cave Mine once held the promise of immense fortune through the extraction of bat guano.
Travelers journeying westward along Colorado’s Eastern Plains once found a captivating stop in Genoa: the World’s Wonder View Tower.
Washington Square Mall in Indianapolis opened in 1974 as a major retail hub but declined over the decades.
Washington Mall in Pennsylvania, once a bustling shopping center, is being redeveloped into a new retail hub featuring Costco.
Nanty Glo, located in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, grew from a small lumber camp into one of America’s prominent coal mining communities.
Perched atop Little Flat on Tussey Mountain in Rothrock State Forest, the Little Flat Lookout Tower stood as a sentry in Pennsylvania.