Without their walls these Solvent Recovery Line buildings look like blast walls. Their concrete inner structures were part of the design so if there was an explosion inside it would ‘blow out’ with a puff instead of a bang. Now most of these are demolished or overgrown.
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The hike to the village is steep. This is looking into the valley from the halfway point.
A vent sitting at the base of one of the crumbling smokestacks.
This is the former air compressor house–one of them, at least–which turned steam power into air power to drive machinery across the production line.
A side view showing the extreme structural damage to what I believe is the Masonic Cottage. I honestly cannot unravel how some of this was done, unless the local armory is missing a 4″ canon and some cartridge shot.
If there was a problem with the conveyor belt, the grain would go out these chutes.
A windmill marks one corner of GOW.
From the catwalks below the hoisting motor in Shaft No. 1.
Another ruined spiral staircase in the mill.
Some local kids were having a fire extinguisher fight when I walked into the lab one day.