Couldn’t make the June 2011 meet for the Klotz Throwing Company? Looking to explore and photograph the last standing original silk mill intact in the US?
Abandoned Posts
There is something to be said for hiking in before sunrise into the largest collection of abandonments in the United States: the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.
There is not a place more worth saving than that of which has historic value and remains intact from the time of its importance than this silk mill.
The Tennessee State Penitentiary, colloquially known as the Tennessee State Prison, presents an imposing sight mere minutes from downtown Nashville. The Gothic-inspired administration building and guard shacks were constructed to instill trepidation in the incarcerated population. The layout bore a striking resemblance to a fortification, with thick, stone masonry walls intended to preclude escapes into the neighboring community.
Few relics encapsulate the essence of Kentucky’s storied bourbon tradition quite like the Old Taylor Distillery in the annals of its distinguished heritage.
Closed since July 2010, St. Mark Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio is an endangered gem, along with St. Andrew and countless other churches within the Queen City.
Could the Memorial Hall in Ironton, Ohio be the next to fall after Springfield’s Memorial Hall fell in late 2010?
The coalfields of southern West Virginia, once teeming with life and industry, now stand as somber reminders of a bygone era. My recent journey through McDowell County, deep within the heart of the state’s coal country, unveiled a landscape etched with the remnants of a once-thriving mining empire, now grappling with the harsh realities of economic decline and depopulation.
Deep within the once coal-rich veins of Buchanan County, Virginia, remnants of a bygone era of prosperity linger. This southwestern county, bordered by the coal-abundant Pike County, Kentucky, to the north and McDowell County, West Virginia, to the northeast – known for its billion-dollar coalfield – bears witness to a transformation.