While traveling back along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I passed through a typical array of roadside establishments: declining motels, run-of-the-mill gas stations and convenience stores, and greasy spoon diners.
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It was a quiet walk along the Rockaway River in Boonton, New Jersey, but this narrow valley was once bustling with pig iron blast furnaces and rolling and slitting mills to produce nail rods and bar iron.
have long wanted to explore the northern reaches of New Jersey to capture some of its historical sites, particularly its iron furnaces.
A sleepy community lies at the southern terminus of the long-defunct Eastern Kentucky Railway in eastern Kentucky. At its center was the Sulphur Springs United Baptist Church.
When you drive through the rolling hills and valleys of Lebanon County today, it’s hard to imagine this pastoral setting was once a hub of industry and agricultural commerce. Centuries-old farmhouses and neatly tended fields give way to another modern behemoth–a mammoth distribution center seeming to rise up from the earth itself.
Modest one-room schoolhouses were the educational anchors of rural communities in bygone eras, including the former Buffalo/Claylick School in northeast Kentuckly.
Demolition work has begun on the abandoned Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company factory in Cleveland, Ohio.
It has been 38 years since a train last rumbled through southeast Ohio’s Campbell and Eagle tunnels. Located near Ohio Route 32, one tunnel is accessible on foot while the other is sealed with concrete blocks.
The Shawnee Lookout Tower is a historic but endangered fire detection tower in Hocking County, Ohio.
The Pioneer Furnace stands as a vestige of the once-thriving iron industry that proliferated across the Hanging Rock Iron Region, encompassing southern Ohio, northeastern Kentucky, and western West Virginia.
The Belle Isle Zoo in Detroit, which closed over 20 years ago, still exists today, although it has been heavily covered in graffiti and subjected to vandalism.
The Rubber Bowl, located in Akron, Ohio, was a historic stadium that was a unique place in the city’s history.
As I photographed the construction of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River between Michigan and Ontario, the silent blast furnaces on Zug Island nearby caught my attention.
On March 28 of this year, a fire destroyed the former Pentecostal Determine Church of God in Cleveland, Ohio.
During my recent visit to the Traverse City State Hospital campus in Traverse City, Michigan, I had the privilege of participating in PreservationWork’s final full tripod photographic tour.