Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger train...
Every factory ever built was because someone had a dream. Every business ever started was a person taking a risk. Every school ever built was done so with the intention...
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Heritage started in 1849 with the opening of the Aurora Branch Railroad in Illinois from Aurora to Chicago’s west side. This grew into the Chicago,...
Although not yet fifty years old, Norfolk Southern boasts a rich heritage which includes many historic and famous names in railroading. The heritage of Norfolk Southern’s predecessor lines can still...
For fifty years, Blytheville was home to a fleet of one of the most versatile pieces of machinery in history. From the Cuban Missile Crisis, through the Vietnam War and...
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage covers the history of this amazing railroad that was founded in 1862 and completed the United States first transcontinental railroad in 1869. With the need to...
Yorktown's position of first rank in the annals of American history, earned with the British defeat there in the fall of 1781 that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War...
Gary, Indiana, was a prosperous steel city, serving as a testing ground for the assimilation and Americanization of immigrants. Although plagued with racial strife, industrial pollution, and political corruption, the...
There’s life in and beyond the French Quarter having little to do with the raucous notoriety of Bourbon Street on a Saturday night, and more to do with connecting with...
The columns in this book focus on the colorful and fascinating history of Vallejo, a shipyard town just north of San Francisco. The writing began following the publishing of author...
Through artistic documentary photography, Paul Meacham unveils the hidden history of Georgia’s coast, from the terrible legacy of slavery, disease, and warfare, through millionaires, lumber booms, and the automobile era....
Have a glimpse of the ruined and the doomed. Visiting abandonments is seductive and boosts the adrenaline for the urban explorer. A new form of art emerges from the forces...
Texas has held a special allure for settlers since the earliest days of the nineteenth century. “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas,” said famed...
Alabama is a beautiful state with a tense history. The Deep South struggles with poverty, and this creates a plethora of abandonment issues. Cotton fields abound while farmhouses are in...
Old Bay Line is the name by which the Baltimore Steam Packet Company was best known over most of its 122-year history of nightly carrying passengers and freight on Chesapeake...
Sulphur, Louisiana, is a world rich with culture, history, and bayous. This flat swampy territory is riddled with waterways, snaking like veins and arteries between forests filled with crooked cypress...
Take a tour as we discover the forgotten landmarks that have helped shape San Antonio’s history. These relics of the Alamo City’s past include industrial properties, commercial establishments, and educational...
Abandoned Tennessee Treasures is a collection of photography and adventures featuring nostalgic abandoned and forgotten roadside gems from yesteryear. Photographer and storyteller, Jay Farrell, takes you along multiple journeys through...
Eastern North Carolina, with its barrier islands, plains, and forests, is just as diverse historically as it is geographically. Hidden throughout the varied landscape are ghost towns, forgotten cemeteries, and...
Northern Virginia's forlorn footprints are close to the din of our nation’s capital, yet some still cling to their old Southern roots, especially those from areas steeped with Civil War...
Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Crumbling bricks, distressed steel, paint, wood, and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time, vandalism, and animal...
They rise, limbs interlocked like a mighty phalanx engaged in a slow northward march along Florida’s coast. Collectively, they are battered and diminished after a century-long struggle. Yet, dutiful and...
Consider these improbable vistas found along the shores of Tampa Bay—an abandoned island fortress stands guard over a federally-designated bird sanctuary. The remains of a ruined cross-bay bridge are repurposed...
Abandoned photography captures the beauty in urban ruins left behind, giving the viewer an exhilarating look at our past. With over 200 years of history, there is no shortage of...
H. Leslie Moody and Frances Johnson Moody never owned the company outright, but their dreams shaped North Carolina’s Hyalyn Porcelain, Inc. and drove it forward to the satisfaction of an...
CSX Transportation Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of this major railroad that was formed in 1980 by a merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the Chessie System, providing...
Beloved Asheville author and historian Lou Harshaw once observed that Asheville has always been a place apart. “It is not really a southern city, but always of the South. Its...
South Florida is known for its beaches, nightclubs, and party atmosphere, but underneath is a history of corruption, drugs, and violence. For those structures that have withstood the harsh perils...
Leftover bones are everywhere. They are throughout our surrounding communities, towns, and cities. They are residual pieces of history and decay, of the days gone by. They can be found...
The decades after World War II were a golden age for roadside attractions in the Sunshine State. The advent of the family automobile put Florida’s exotic flora and fauna within...
Country Store to Corner Market: Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi offers an engaging and enlightening look at country stores from early dry goods stores to mom-and-pop groceries. The book traces the...
Since she was a curious four-year-old child, Natasha Rawls has had an intense interest (and equally intense fear) of shut-down department stores and abandoned buildings. Though she admittedly suffers from...
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, has inspired artists, filmmakers, and writers since its first publication in 1843. But it was two murders a...
Join author and photographer, Kyle King, as he finds meaning in the decaying buildings found within Tennessee’s borders. Along with photographs of abandoned buildings, Finding Meaning in the Forgotten life...
Welcome to the Wiregrass, a place where abandoned doesn’t always mean vacant, and vacant doesn’t always mean empty. Nestled between Florida’s sugar-white beaches and the agriculturally rich Black Belt, there...
Montgomery, Alabama, is the birthplace of the Confederacy and the site of many protests during the Civil Rights Movement. A constant battleground of morals and politics, the city has been...
