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Somewhere in Ky, west of I-65, found it last year. Some old car parts on the porch and inside the building as well

thanks!

Dawson City, Yukon Territory

We were just there a couple weeks ago. My daughter's jazz band played there.

An old farmhouse east of town. I stop to look at these old places and wonder, what was Christmas dinner like-did the kids get what they had hoped for?

The Nat. Forest in Northern Wisconsin was more or less clear cut at one time. Then alot was sold off as farm land. Found this barn a few years ago, and took a cell phone picture today (can't find my camera).



^^ The slab for the house is just to the right. Along with two smaller building foundations. The silo foundation is just to the left. I also found a small patch of apple trees not too far away.

It freaks me out how Mother Nature can take stuff back so quick.

Everybody that goes through Jerome, AZ probably shoots this.

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she wont last to much longer....kinda sad innit was once a substantial family home...

William H. Donner, built 1914.

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Built in the early 1700's, apparently this was a feeding station on one of General Wade's roads. Scottish Highlands.

I find these old farms and ranches all over the American SouthWest. It seems very sad to me, every farmhouse, barn, outbuilding, shed, corral, business, silo, whatever, represented someones dreams, now broken and abandoned. What happened to those familys, what happened to those dreams? If I were a photographer/writer, I'd do a coffee table book, but along with the pictures, would be "the rest of the story".

Sounds like a good idea to me.

I see a fair number of these crumbling houses where the owners just stopped doing the maintenance. Once the house gets bad enough they drop a trailer on the property and move to that or build a new house.

i often wonder about the stories in these places. I m also sad that no one see what they could be use for like below . Lots of these place could be move or build into new building like below. Also a fair number of them used first generation old growth wood that is worth as much cash as oil is. Companies charge mega bucks for the wood and use it as flooring etc. \
Tiny Texas Houses .com makes them

The old Control Tower at Greenham Common (UK) - for those that may not know Greenham Common is the site of an ex RAF / USAAF base that was used during various campaigns and politically sensitive periods. It was the location for numerous protests against nuclear weapons by organisations such as the CND.

Yuma County, (Northeast) Colorado

Same place

The Worst Hard Time, (Amazon Link), is really worth a read. A really compelling examination of what went wrong in the OK panhandle, western KS area. A really sad story.

I did a lot of riding on unfamiliar roads and places today mainly towards West Blocton and Centreville, AL. On my way out of Montevallo off Hwy 25 I stopped by the old Absalom Pratt House just past Brierfield Ironworks Park...











I went on down Hwy 25 for a way then turned right onto River Bend Rd. It sounded cool so I took it. It crosses back over the Cahaba River and has a few high speed sweepers to play on. Exiting one of the sweepers I came on another long straight but noticed something in the road. Played around with the brakes to see if I could get ABS to come on but nope lol. The rear brake is starting to work out just fine. The fronts have plenty 'o bite even on the hot greasy asphalt! I thought it was a fallen tree limb or something but nope. A damn peacock just chillin' in the countryside. He would not move either. I had to rev the bike right next to him while blasting the road runner horn and he defiantely bitched and sqauwked across the road.