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A century ago, a stretch of riverfront in Kenova, West Virginia was home to a revolving door of industry, a steel company that collapsed within two years, a mine car manufacturer born from merger, and a spark plug maker turned insulator giant that survived two bankruptcies and a devastating fire....
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A quiet, undetected walk through a hidden Volkswagen graveyard in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, where decades-old Beetles and Buses sit reclaimed by the forest.
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While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an abandoned general store and hotel.
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In 2016, I spent a day tracing the remnants of the former Wheeling Terminal Railway across the hills surrounding downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.
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On a snow-covered winter afternoon in Washington County, Pennsylvania, I followed rural backroads to document a handful of historic landmarks.
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Travel into the snowy hills of northern West Virginia to document early three charcoal iron furnaces.
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Driving west along Interstate 74 at sunrise, I caught sight of the trees that once framed Fairland Recreation Park.
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Once a booming lead and zinc mining town, Picher, Oklahoma, is now known as one of America’s most toxic ghost towns.