For the past ten years, we in this area have heard stories and seen photos of a collection of huge concrete presidential busts sitting in a field near Williamsburg. Unfortunately, this Virginia oddity is usually not open to the public, locked away on private land.
Tag: decay
Last weekend I had the opportunity to photograph inside an abandoned silk mill in Lonaconing, Maryland. The mill opened in 1907, producing thread from silk imported from China and Japan and connected to the Baltimore harbor by rail. At the beginning of World War II the plant switched to making nylon thread for the war effort.