The average sugar mill in 1915 consumed about 11,000 acres of sugar beets
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Scanned after being recovered from the bottom of an old wooden box for a few years. Circa 2005. The only photo I have showing the steam locomotive out front.
A row of security lights line the roof of the power station.
Where the trees are sprouting–below the skyways and criss-crossing pipes–are two sets of railroad tracks that turned through this narrow alleyway through the middle of the production line to drop off raw materials and pick up finished product.
Looking from a high window in the abandoned Ogilvie’s elevator across “The Kam”, the true size of the Starch Works is surprising.
Don’t know what’s heavier… the bricks or shadows.
A quick shot to show the mineshaft in context with the smelter. Did I mention the smelter’s stack is unreasonably gigantic?
From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.
The parking lot is in better condition than most of the complex. The left building is the lab.
The roof was in bad shape, but too beautiful to avoid. This is the spot were I used to study medieval Latin.