Category: Demolition

June 12, 2024 / Demolition
April 26, 2024 / Demolition
February 19, 2024 / Appalachia
October 17, 2023 / Demolition
December 4, 2022 / Demolition
February 8, 2022 / Appalachia

The Amanda Furnace and BOF at the former Armco/AK Steel Ashland Works were simultaneously imploded at 8:30 AM this morning. Steelmaking operations were idled on December 15, 2015, and the plant was closed for good by November 2019. The Hanging Rock Iron Region in southern Ohio, northeastern Kentucky, and western West Virginia produced iron between 1818 and 1916, which helped build armaments for the Civil War, hulls for the Monitor and Merrimac ships, kettles and pots, tools, and wagon wheels. It was predicted that iron ore in the Hanging Rock Iron Region would last for 2,700 years but most of…

December 4, 2021 / Demolition
November 22, 2021 / Appalachia
September 16, 2019 / Demolition

The printing operations for the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, then the world’s largest magazine publishing house, was located on High Street in Springfield, Ohio. After years of underutilization and disuse, the remainder of the once-storied complex will be demolished.

December 18, 2017 / Demolition
September 29, 2016 / Appalachia

Sometimes, I revisit an old friend and discover something new, such as the long-abandoned Jefferson School in Wheeling, West Virginia. I had not discovered much about the historic structure other than its demolition in 2013.

March 26, 2015 / Demolition