Three Charts

The flour mill (rear) and its elevators. The taller elevator was moved here in 1955, when the Harrisons bought it from Federal, who declared it surplus. The smaller elevator replaced an earlier smaller warehouse in 1926. Taken shortly after dawn. This one picture made the drive worth it, for me. Medium Format.

Sunrise over Mill Hell, and all of Kurth’s various skyways. The elevators in the foreground date to the mid-1920s, Electric Steel is behind and is a little earlier than that.

He bites.

I really like the way this high-ceilinged room is decaying. Well, decayed. It’s demolished now.

The rocket system used several cooling methods, once of which included an evaporation pond, pictured here.

Records of dead machines rot on the accounting office floor.

Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.

In the many-windowed metal building, the lumberyard buildings and the abandoned starch works buildings are separated by a thick wall of pallets.

On top of the light hoop, 160-feet up, a ship comes into port, ready to load-up. If you look really close, you can see my shadow cast on the dock below, courtesy of the full moon.