Located along the Ohio River in Ashland, Kentucky, this near-700-acre facility contains a coke plant, one blast furnace, a basic oxygen furnace, and other production facilities. Of interest is the abandoned blast furnace and hot strip, both of which was demolished after many years of disuse.
3 Photos
Cement silos adorn this abandoned cement factory in Ironton, Ohio. Once producing quality cement for such projects for a major bridge project and providing foundations and roads for the area, it offered the residents of the nearby towns a chance for quality, high paying jobs.
69 Photos
Alpheus Coal Preparation Plant, Gary, West Virginia
4 Photos
2 Photos
The Ault & Wiborg Company on East 7th Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio was constructed in 1930 on the western fringe of the central business district for the Queen City Printing Company. The 57,159 square-foot structure was home to multiple businesses and industries over the years, and was demolished in 2009. The company was a manufacturer of printing inks and dry color dyes and pigments that innovated the industry with coal-tar dyes.
26 Photos
The Barboursville Clay Manufacturing Company was located in Barboursville, West Virginia, and operated from 1904 to 1979.
54 Photos
Brach’s Confections was a candy manufacturing company located in Chicago, Illinois that operated between 1904 and 2003.
1 Photos
The Krypton Loadout is a small surface coal mining operation one mile west of Krypton, Kentucky. It is located along the CSX Eastern Kentucky Subdivision, formerly part of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
5 Photos
The Buckeye Ordnance Works was in operation for only three brief years during World War II, and was later used in the production of agricultural products, bio-fuel, and various chemicals in South Point, Ohio.
67 Photos
24 Photos
Once providing plentiful jobs to an industrious region, the Carlyle Labold Tile and Brick Company in Coal Grove, Ohio provided hard ache for many who reside near it. Contaminated with ground chemicals and literally falling apart due to age and numerous fires, the property was demolished and has been remedied for future development.
59 Photos
Clyffside Brewing Company is a defunct brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio. The brewery, which began in 1933 when Paul Esselborn, who was educated at the Royal Bavarian School of Brewing in Germany, organized the company in the former Mohawk Brewery structures on West McMicken Avenue. The company's signature selections included Felsenbrau beer and Old Hickory Ale that was "aged in the hills."
23 Photos
16 Photos
Closed in 1993, Consolidated Grain consisted of 40 silos that dominated the skyline in the west side of Cincinnati, Ohio for decades.
38 Photos
The Crosley Radio Corporation, which was at one time the largest manufacturer of table-top radios in the United States, was based from Cincinnati, Ohio. Headed by Powel Crosley, Jr., he pioneered the ideal of affordable radios, appliances and other housewares.
10 Photos
The Crowell Publishing Company was the world’s largest magazine publishing house and the manufacturing plant was located in Springfield, Ohio. By the early 1900s, Crowell was home to The American Magazine, The Woman’s Home Companion, Collier’s, The National Weekly, Farm and Fireside and The Mentor, among others. It had a monthly circulation of over 10 million copies with an average of ten carloads of magazines produced per working day.
20 Photos
3 Photos
10 Photos
The Fisk University steam plant was located in Nashville, Tennessee.
21 Photos
21 Photos
Once a huge glass producing plant of over 1,000 employees, foreign competition and outdated equipment forced the Fostoria Glass Company's closure in 1986 in Moundsville, West Virginia.
196 Photos
5 Photos
Founded in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1885, the Hudepohl Brewing Company relocated to its Queensgate location that was formerly home to Herman Leckman Brewing Company. Hudepohl vacated its Queensgate facility in 1987, and merged with the Schoenling Brewing Company, and relocated its manufacturing line to a location along Central Parkway. Vacant for more than 20 years, the ailing Queensgate location has drawn the ire of the city for its extensive deterioration, although active plans have the site being re-purposed into a mixed-use development.
90 Photos
The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP), located just southeast of Charlestown, Indiana, was spurred by the passage of the first National Defense Appropriations Act.(10) Four days later, the Munitions Program was passed, in which the U.S. Ordinance Department sponsored private manufacturing corporations to design and produce ammunitions factories, producing smokeless gunpowder and other ordinances.
1 Photos
Once operating as a textile for nearly as long as the river town of Maysville, Kentucky has existed, the January and Wood Company closed its doors in 2003. Demolition began soon after, but was ordered stopped due to improper demolition techniques. It has since been fully demolished.
23 Photos
The Jeannette Glass Company was founded in Jeannette, Pennsylvania in 1887 and has been closed since 1983. The property has steadily deteriorated since then, and is heavily contaminated.
1 Photos
The John Kauffman Brewing Company is a defunct brewing operation at 1622 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was known for its "Gilt Edge," "Columbia," and "Old Lager" beers. It closed in 1919 when Prohibition was enacted, and Kauffman never reopened.
13 Photos
Calcite mines were once in great numbers through central Kentucky, calcite used in the manufacture of gunpowder that was important during the Civil War. Calcium enriched water due to the abundance of limestone was vital and plentiful.
13 Photos
Most of the structures have been restored, although there are a few that lay in disrepair or are abandoned. A railroad spur once stretched from the now-abandoned Morehead and North Fork line but has been abandoned since the 1970's.
12 Photos
Lempco was an industrial facility located in New Lexington, Ohio that manufactured die sets, guiding components and springs for the automotive industry. Based out of Cleveland, the company was founded in 1917 by James F. Strnad, who began a small machine shop to work on government projects during World War I. The New Lexington facility closed on December 31, 2003 after a prolonged decline in business.
4 Photos
The Lonaconing Silk Mill, also referred to as the Klotz Throwing Company, is the last intact silk mill in the United States. It is located in Lonaconing, Maryland within the National Lonaconing Historic District, and the site was nominated by the George's Creek Watershed Association for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
1 Photos
Longmont Sugar was a sugar processing facility located in Longmont, Colorado that operated between 1903 and 1977.
1 Photos
The Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) Paddy's Run Power Plant is a defunct power generating facility in southwestern Louisville, Kentucky, located at the confluence of Paddy's Run stream and the Ohio River. Planning for the coal-fired power plant in the Rubbertown district of the city began in the 1930s, when the majority of the 140 antiquated steam power plants that dotted the city only decades prior were being phased out.
5 Photos
Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant is an abandoned power generating facility in Marble Hill, Indiana. It was abandoned in 1984 after $2.7 billion was expended.
36 Photos
A multitude of structures litter this valley in the now-dead town of Superior, Ohio. Once a prosperious area boasting a hotel and a movie theatere, most of the town was abandoned in the 1960's.
165 Photos
The Moser Leather Company was founded in 1878 in New Albany, Indiana, and produced high grade leather for harnesses and collar manufacturers, before expanding into a wholesale leather business. At the height of operations, Moser was one of five tanneries in New Albany, attracted to the area in part due to the abundance of native chestnut trees. The trees have a natural tannin in the tree bark, and nuts that were used in the tanning process. The natural materials used resulted in a vegetative tanning process. Moser closed in 2002.
15 Photos
The Cyclops steel mill and coke plant at New Boston, Ohio once employed over 5,000 during its height of the 1950s. But increased foreign competition and a glut in steel during the 1970s led to the mill into bankruptcy and its subsequent closure in 1980. The coke plant survived until 2003.
48 Photos
Once a large rail shop facility for Norfolk Southern in Knoxville, Tennessee containing everything including a roundhouse, most of it has been demolished, leaving only a few scattered buildings to remain. The yard closed in 1998.
22 Photos
A major coal-fired power plant in Toronto, Ohio that has been demolished.
67 Photos
Old Crow Distillery, located south of Frankfort, Kentucky has its history traced back to the early 1800's. Once famous for producing Old Grand Dad, Bourbon DeLuxe, Sunny Brook among many others, it has been closed since 1987 as a result of a buy-out from competitor Jim Bean.
2 Photos
Old Taylor Distillery is a defunct distillery located along Glenn's Creek south of Frankfort, Kentucky. Constructed by E.H. Taylor, Jr. in 1887, Old Taylor was known for a fine, quality product that was the first to produce one million cases of straight bourbon whiskey.
87 Photos
Located within a very rich clay deposit, fire brick was produced for decades in Olive Hill, Kentucky that was shipped worldwide.
13 Photos
Located within the heavily polluted West Virginia Ordnance Works facility, this small manufacturer of resins had its own wealth of environmental problems.
3 Photos
Parker Tobacco Company was tobacco redrying and threshing plant that became a large tobacco leaf purchasing, processing, marketing and commercial storage operation in Maysville, Kentucky.
158 Photos
Peter's Cartridge Company is a former smokeless ordnance and shot shell ammunition factory in Kings Mill, Ohio. Located along the Little Miami River, the 71-acre Peters Cardridge factory began production of ordnance in 1887, ending in 1944.
3 Photos
Closed in 2001, the Pilgrim Glass Company was located in Ceredo, West Virginia.
2 Photos
Located in the tiny community of Blackfork, Ohio, this once former brick factory begun its operations in the early-1900s.
9 Photos
The Portsmouth Brewing and Ice Company is a defunct brewery in Portsmouth, Ohio.
5 Photos
20 Photos
Reymann Brewery, located in Wheeling, West Virginia, was once an integral part of the city's rich German heritage that date to the 19th century. Wheeling, known as an early prominently German community in the northern panhandle of the Mountain State, boasted its unofficial nickname, the Beer Belly, with pride as it was a city filled with over 130 taverns and saloons. The largest of the breweries in the state was Reymann.
33 Photos
This very large industrial building in Winchester, Kentucky was once home to Rockwell International, which made truck axles. When it left 15 years ago, the building became abandoned and was only revived in the past two years by a recycling company and a truck driving school. Other parts are currently used for storage.
15 Photos
Schmidt Brothers Brewery is a defunct brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio, located at 135 and 138 East McMicken Avenue in Over-the-Rhine. It was founded by Friedrich and Heinrich Schmidt and brewed what they referred to as the "common ale" of the city.
9 Photos
Schmulbach Brewery, located in Wheeling, West Virginia, was once an integral part of the city's rich German heritage that date to the 19th century. Wheeling, known as an early prominently German community in the northern panhandle of the Mountain State, boasted its unofficial nickname, the Beer Belly, with pride as it was a city filled with over 130 taverns and saloons. Ales were produced in great quantities, such as Schmulbach.
24 Photos
The Selby Shoe Company opened a four-story factory along South Third Street in Ironton, Ohio in 1926. The facility was purchased in 1943 by the Wilson Athletic Goods Mfg. Co.
1 Photos
8 Photos
Once a successful distillery for the town of Stamping Ground, Kentucky, the facility was abandoned when the company closed in the 1960s.
Once the largest cotton consumer in the United States, this aged factory in Lockland, Ohio underwent new management and promptly began downsizing and eventually closed this location's doors for good in 2003.
84 Photos
8 Photos
Dating back to 1844, the TW Samuels Distillery in Deatsville, Kentucky produced the signature "T.W. Samuels" bottle and a four-year-old 90-proof label. The factory ceased productions during prohibition, but resumed afterwards, closing for good in 1952.
8 Photos
3 Photos
1 Photos
Comments are closed.