I revisited the mill years after my documentary. Now it is even more destroyed and surrounded by new fences.
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The old men’s ward is an example of what the hospital resembled before part of the complex was modernized. Small rooms, light switches outside the door, small observation windows set into heavy wood. If you ask me, though, the tile work across the floors is the most spectacular.
No, it’s not your Mac’s desktop, it’s a beautiful Lake Superior night. Taken from near the former Pittsburgh and Reading Anthracite Plant. You can see the frame that used to hold the lifeboat that was auctioned in 2006 to the left of the Pilot House.
One thing that struck me as a midwesterner in the South was the vines. They seem to be able to completely cover a building when left alone for a few decades.
The playground used to be near the school which is now in ruins.
Footprints of houses past; tailings of mines past.
S&X seen in the background through the fog.
Construction in 2014 reveals a lost stone sign.
A bumper sticker with the usual tagline. Note the detail on the radiator!
There are a few campers parked in the abandoned buildings around the NAD. I am guessing that they were once a more secure place to store such things OR they have always been wide open, and this was a quick and free way to dump unwanted toys.