As the season of Halloween approaches, it is time to explore the annals of my favored derelict structures and allegedly haunted locales.
Abandoned Posts
Over the past ten years since I started this website, many of the industrial sites that initially inspired me have undergone significant changes. From the once-active AK Steel Ashland Works to various cement companies, these places are either being demolished or restored at an astonishing pace.
“Whether it’s disused factory buildings sitting vacant all across Hamilton County or the destruction wrought by the riots of the late 1960s on inner-city neighborhoods, there is still something to be gained from focusing an artistic eye on such losses.”
The advent of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was inevitable because of the looming tempest of global conflict. Spurred by the National Defense Appropriations Act and the subsequent Munitions Program, the United States Ordinance Department enlisted private corporations to undertake the formidable task of designing and constructing munitions factories for the production of smokeless gunpowder and other ordinances.