A midwestern jungle surrounds the meat packing plant.
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One of the last times I saw the skyway standing. ADM’s Meal Elevator is in the distance.
Between lines of Number Sixes right after sun rose behind them. This photo shows how extremely lush the grounds are that make getting around in some places impossible.
Every walking path was strewn with debris. It was hard to imagine that all that was inside once.
Mitchell Avenue, the main drag of a ghost town. Traces of asphalt and curbs are barely visible through patches of grass. In the old plan of the town, Mitchell Hotel would be to my direct left in this scene, and about 10 houses would flank this street to the left and right.
One of my favorite images from my stay… Note the snowed-over road in the distance! This is looking toward Animas Forks.
The school (hospital) campus was expansive.
Fake Fact: The term ‘stovetop hat’ was coined by Island Station’s architect while trying to explain why he wanted to put the steel chimney on the station. ‘Live Here’ was part of the advertising when the building was host to artist lofts. They weren’t kidding.
This was taken before the top of the docks really started to rot-out; now this stretch past the crane is distinctly unsafe to cross. Still, you can’t beat the view of Dock #2 winding into the distance, where the approach is chopped-off before the yard used to extend.
The average sugar mill in 1915 consumed about 11,000 acres of sugar beets