Work has been progressing at the former Mt. Sterling High School.
It’s not too often I make my way back down to central and eastern Kentucky anymore, but when I do, I like to at least do a check up of some of my old haunts. The Mt. Sterling High School in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky is located within a quaint and quiet community. Several years ago, I photographed the high school, then in a state of disrepair.
The long abandoned Paramount Theatre is located in Youngstown, Ohio and was closed to regular performances in 1976.
Take a stroll back in time with a before and after of the Lexington Mall.
Ghost towns along the New River in West Virginia are aplenty but what makes these three unique is that they lay within the New River Gorge National River. Prior to the creation of the national park in the late 1970s, much of the land was used for the production of coal and coke. Small, company-owned towns were developed for the miners and their families, and when those mines closed out—so did the communities.
Despite the overarching theme of Abandoned to explore an abandonment in urbanized areas, there is a lot to be said for getting lost through the rural, blank landscape of the Midwest.
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