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The Tibbals Flooring Company (and later Armstrong Flooring) is a former parquet and residential hardwood flooring manufacturer in Tennessee.

The abandoned Tunnel Nos. 3 and 4 along the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway is located near Burnside, Kentucky.

The 3.9-mile Cincinnati & Southern Ohio River Railroad (C&SOR) was completed from the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway (CISL&C) in Lawrenceburg to 3rd Street in Aurora, 1 in 1886 at the cost of $80,000. 3 4 It was originally projected to parallel the Ohio River and reach Jeffersonville or New Albany, but the line was undercapitalized from its initialization and never finished to its intended destinations. 4 Despite this, the C&SOR was able to serve local industries in Lawrenceburg and Aurora despite paralleling the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad its entire length. The C&SOR was sold to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (CCC&StL) Big Four) on December 15, 1913, becoming its Aurora Branch. 3 The Big Four was officially folded into the New York Central Railroad (NYC) in 1930. In that same year, the last passenger train operated over the line. Penn Central (PC) then owned the Aurora Branch after the NYC and Pennsylvania merged in 1968. In 1976, PC’s Aurora Branch was folded into Conrail’s L&A Running Track. 5 Conrail abandoned the branch between Lawrenceburg and Aurora in 1979, and from Lawrenceburg Junction to Lawrenceburg in 1991. 2 5 In 1994, 9 a rail-to-trail project was proposed for the former Aurora Branch between Lawrenceburg and Aurora, starting at Lawrenceburg’s Levee Park and proceeding west, crossing Tanners Creek on a restored truss bridge, over Wilson Creek over a rebuilt wood trestle, over Hogan Creek via the existing George Street Bridge, and terminate at Lesko Park in…

The Norfolk & Western Railway Pocahontas Branch is an abandoned 4½-mile coal-hauling rail line near Pocahontas, Virginia.

In Ohio, many abandoned houses stand as silent witnesses to the state’s industrial decline and population shifts, their empty frames and crumbling facades marking the passage of once-thriving communities. These structures, scattered across rural landscapes and urban neighborhoods alike, offer poignant reminders of economic cycles and changing American dreams.

Abandoned schools in West Virginia serve as poignant testaments to the state’s changing educational landscape and social fabric. These forsaken edifices, found in both secluded rural areas and bustling urban centers, were once filled with the vibrancy of education and communal engagement.

Matewan High School was a public high school in the coalfields of West Virginia. It closed in 2011 because of declining enrollment and consolidation.

The Fields Creek Coal Dock is a disused rail-to-barge operation along the Kanawha River in central West Virginia.

This gallery presents a collection of fire lookout towers located throughout the United States.

Red Ash was a coal camp established by the Red Ash Coal & Coke Company, located along the New River in West Virginia.