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Comment on About by Josh Reynolds

Josh Reynolds — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:12:26 +0000

Fascinating stuff you've got here. I've done a bit of exploring myself, found some interesting things, although I doubt that my shots are quite up to the quality of yours.

Comment on Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad by Railfanning in Ohio Part II | Abandoned

Railfanning in Ohio Part II | Abandoned — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:22:30 +0000

[...] eventual involvement of Henry Ford, the owner of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DT&I) is a defunct railroad that had its beginnings as the Iron Railroad Company, which [...]

Comment on Cincinnati Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad by Railfanning in Ohio Part II | Abandoned

Railfanning in Ohio Part II | Abandoned — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:22:54 +0000

[...] with Railfanning in Ohio, Part II? Let's begin in the central part of Ohio, with the short-lived Cincinnati, Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad [...]

Comment on Exploring the Big South Fork railroads by Rob Byrd

Rob Byrd — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:47:37 +0000

Cool.

Comment on Railfanning in Ohio by Rob Byrd

Rob Byrd — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:22:48 +0000

Excellent shots. Thanks for posting them online. You are providing an artful and practical record of a big part of our history that is disappearing.

I will try to get around to sending you some of our shots that I'm sure you'll find interesting. I'm a fan of rail bridges, in particular, active and abandoned.

Are you aware of the duplication of some of your caption text?

Just wanted to send a note of appreciation for your work. ~,~

Comment on Warren County Orphan Asylum and Children’s Home by Melba Kairn Smith

Melba Kairn Smith — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:43:00 +0000

It saddens me to see what was once a beautiful building in such a state of disrepair. My sisters and I lived at Mary Haven, beginning in March 1953. I lived there until I graduated from high school in June of 1958. One would think that living in an orphanage would be a negative experience and at times it was. Most of the people working there were not as educated or as smart as the children they supervised.
I was the first high school graduate at Mary Haven to go to college. Most children were sent to the military when they graduated and/or reached the age of 18. I feel lucky and blessed because had I stayed in my family unit, I most likely would not have had the opportunity to go to college. I was told that I was the first student who had the grades and took college prep classes to go to college. I received a scholarship from the Mary Ann Klingling Foundation that helped pay my tuition.
I went to Wilmington College, then to Kent State University and became an educator/administrator. I have taught in and directed schools in Ohio, Maryland, and Indiana. Tutoring the kids at Mary Haven was the beginning of my teaching career.

Comment on Man Community Hospital by Brett Marcum

Brett Marcum — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:42:59 +0000

Hello, I stumbled upon this website and was mesmerized because I have never seen the hospital before. I was born in this hospital back in 1973 and I am saddened to see that I never got to visit it again while in operation. I have to give this hospital and its' doctors and nurses credit for saving my life as I was born over 2 months premature and in 1973 it would not have been unusual for a premature baby dying and they saved my life. I enjoy the paranormal and would love to visit it just to hopefully see what may be there after all signs of life are gone from the site.

Comment on Man Community Hospital by Jared McCool

Jared McCool — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:58:27 +0000

I stumbled upon your pictures of the abandoned Man Appalachian Regional Hospital (Man Community Hospital) while looking up abandoned buildings a couple years back, and for no understandable reason fell in love with the hospital through your photos. I made it a personal mission of mine to go down to Man, West Virginia, to see, explore, and photograph the hospital for myself, which I finally got the chance to do over Memorial Day weekend this year. The experience for me was amazing and surreal, seeing this hospital in person after wanting too for the past two years, but also was incredibly disturbing. After the hospital closed in 2001 it was never reopened and the damage done by time, nature, vandals, and copper-thieves, is incredible. The hospital sits in a state of almost complete disrepair, with little hope of it ever reopening. When the hospital was closed, they literally walked out and locked the doors, leaving everything behind (beds, chairs, computers, medical records, blood samples, copier, x-rays, CT scanner). The county currently owns the property and for the past few years has been seeking funding to tear the hospital down or find a buyer to potentially build a new health care facility. It is so sad to see this once important and life-saving building in the state it is in, and in a region in need of good health care, to see an abandoned hospital in a state of such decay, has to be a huge insult.

I didn't know if you would want an update about the hospital, but I wanted to share my thoughts after being there. If you would like to see pictures of the hospital today, I have put the address to my Flickr page containing photos of my trip there. Thanks for a great website dedicated to the history and memory of abandoned buildings.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunmiffsys/sets/72157624044264425/

Comment on M.C. Napier High School by Crystal Testerman

Crystal Testerman — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:06:59 +0000

Your facts are mistaken. Mc Napier gradueated its last class in May of 1995. As did Dilce Combs. The consolidated highschool began its first classes that fall.

Comment on Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad by Railfanning in Ohio | Abandoned

Railfanning in Ohio | Abandoned — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:49:27 +0000

[...] Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley connected the cities of Morrow, Wilmington, Washington Court House, Circleville, Zanesville and [...]