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The Columbia Mantel Company was a furniture and mantel factory in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s site in the Old Louisville neighborhood was demolished in 2021.

The Keneseth Israel Synagogue is a former Orthodox sanctuary at Jacob and Floyd Streets in downtown Louisville. It was demolished in 2021 after a fire.

Morgantown Ordnance Works, located in Morgantown, West Virginia, was an integral of the P-9 Project, the codename given during World War II to the Manhattan Project’s heavy water production program.

The Columbia Theatre is a closed theater in downtown Paducah, Kentucky. Efforts are underway to restore the facility as a performing arts venue.

Blue Sulphur Springs is a thermal mineral spring in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It features a historic, restored pavilion.

The Lincoln School was constructed for the children of John J. Lincoln and for the children of managers of the Crozer Land Association in McDowell County, West Virginia.

The Terrace Plaza Hotel is a shuttered hotel in a distinct 18-story International Style structure in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Elkhorn Power Plant was constructed by Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries to provide electricity to its mines in West Virginia and Virginia.

Fort Carroll is an abandoned sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River near Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The original Big Bend Tunnel was opened in 1872 to carry the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway underneath Big Bend Mountain in Talcott, West Virginia.

The West Virginia Institute of Technology’s original campus in Montgomery, West Virginia closed in 2016-17. Portions of the campus are used by a local community and technical college while others are abandoned.

Mullens, located along the Guyandotte River in Wyoming County, West Virginia, was the commercial center of the Winding Gulf coalfield.