Archives: Locations

November 12, 2024 /

The Kentucky Speedway is a closed, 1.5-mile tri-oval track located in Sparta, Kentucky. It previously hosted events for NASCAR and IndyCar racing.

October 30, 2024 /
October 29, 2024 /

The Indiana Central Canal was a never-completed canal intended to create a connection between the Wabash & Erie Canal and the Ohio River.

October 24, 2024 /
October 24, 2024 /
September 26, 2024 /

The Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital, a closed medical center in Indianapolis, Indiana, was established in 1931 with the support of Congressman Louis L. Ludlow and local veterans groups. It was the first general medical and surgical facility for veterans in the state.

August 14, 2024 /

Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, has been vacant for several years and is currently undergoing stabilization and renovations.

August 1, 2024 /
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July 11, 2024 /
July 11, 2024 /

The Lehigh & New England Railroad (L&NE) was a defunct railroad that operated in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It was the second notable railroad in the United States to be completely abandoned.

July 11, 2024 /
July 8, 2024 /

The Boonton Iron Works is an abandoned pig iron furnace complex that contained rolling and slitting mills for producing nail rods and bar iron along the Rockaway River in Boonton, New Jersey.

July 3, 2024 /
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June 20, 2024 /

The River Road Bridge is a steel pin-connected Parker through truss that carried River Road over the Schuylkill River near Auburn in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

June 18, 2024 /
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The Campbell Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel in southeast Ohio that was part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad’s Hocking Valley Division.