Harrisburg State Hospital and the Question Nobody Answered
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
Dispatches from the road — personal essays, travel stories, and observations from two decades of exploring America's overlooked corners.
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
Weirton's 2024 shutdown was the final blow in a slow 60-year decline: how "mini" mills, legacy costs, and lost marketshare undid American blast furnace…
A century ago, a stretch of riverfront in Kenova, West Virginia was home to a revolving door of industry, a steel company that collapsed…
While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an…
The abandoned Adena Branch of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway follows a former coal-hauling route through the hills of eastern Ohio.
Explore the history of the Wheeling, West Virginia, iron and steel district, from its early nail mills to its long decline.
In 2016, I spent a day tracing the remnants of the former Wheeling Terminal Railway across the hills surrounding downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.
In eastern Ohio, the story of one railroad mirrored the rise and decline of regional heavy industry. The Lake Branch of the Baltimore &…
A road trip through Michigan nearly a decade ago centered on its Lake Huron lighthouses, but the journey extended beyond...
About a decade ago, while traveling north along US 23 toward Cheboygan, I came across these cottages.
On a snow-covered winter afternoon in Washington County, Pennsylvania, I followed rural backroads to document a handful of historic landmarks.
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.