Locations
The Martins Ferry Works in Martins Ferry, Ohio, was a major galvanizing and steel finishing plant.
Wheeling Steel’s Benwood Works was a major pipe-manufacturing facility in Benwood, West Virginia.
The Harvard Company and Weber Dental Manufacturing Company were former manufacturers of dental furniture and equipment in Canton, Ohio.
Theodore Roosevelt High School, later the Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy, is a closed school in Gary, Indiana.
The Morehead State Natatorium in Morehead, Kentucky, was a historic swimming facility built in 1933, closed in 1988, and demolished in 2007.
The College Hill Railroad connected Cincinnati with College Hill and Mount Healthy, later becoming an electric interurban until 1938.
Scio Pottery of Scio, Ohio, was founded during the Great Depression and grew into one of the nation’s major manufacturers of affordable dinnerware.
The Frenchburg Presbyterian College was a former school and hospital operated by the United Presbyterian Church in Frenchburg, Kentucky.
The Illiana Motor Speedway is a closed race track located in Schererville, Indiana.
The State Line Road Bridge carried State Line Road over the Kankakee River at the boundary of Kankakee County, Illinois, and Lake and Newton counties, Indiana.
Abandoned businesses in Ohio reflect the state’s changing economic landscape.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Fairmont Subdivision was once the B&O’s primary main line between Cumberland, Maryland, and Wheeling, West Virginia.
The Board Tree Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Fairmont Subdivision in West Virginia.
Tunnel No. 6 is an abandoned railroad tunnel located along the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Panhandle Line in eastern Ohio.
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, commonly referred to as the Panhandle Route, was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. It connected Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Bradford, Ohio.
The Cherry Valley Coke Ovens consist of 200 disused beehive coke ovens constructed by the Leetonia Iron and Coal Company in Leetonia, Ohio.
The Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway (NF&G) is a former railroad, controlled by the C&O and NYC, that was named after the three counties it served in the New River coal field in West Virginia.
