Recently Added Entries:
Descriptions of the Various Structures in Pre-prohibition Brewery Complexes with lots of Photos
Added - 9/7/19
Ludlow Massacre Memorial, Colorado | Memorial at the site of the Ludlow Massacre.
Added - 8/19/19
Hastings Colorado | Ghost town.
Added - 8/19/19
Hastings Colorado | Townsite, site of the worst mine disaster in Colorado history and Coke ovens.
Added - 8/19/19
Times Beach, Missouri | The memories of both a town and a environmental disaster are being erased.
Added - 8/6/19
An Introduction to a Four Part Series on the American Brewers' Review, 1898 Brewers' Guide
Added - 7/30/19
Part 4. Germans in the Brewing Industry: American Brewers' Review, 1898 Brewers' Guide
Added - 7/30/19
Part 3. Bottling, Malting, Saloons and Depots: American Brewers' Review, 1898 Brewers' Guide
Added - 7/30/19
Part 2. Ale, Porter and Lager in American Brewers' Review, 1898 Brewers' Guide
Added - 7/14/19
Part 1. American Brewers' Review, 1898 Brewers' Guide, Mapped
Added - 7/4/19
1910 Philadelphia German Population and Historic Brewery Locations. Fixed - 2/4/18
The Geography of Pre-Prohibition Breweries
Added - 7/4/19
Sacramento Valley Rice Mills, California | Rice mills and silos in the Sacramento River Valley. Added - 4/1/18
Carpentersville Illinois | Nice, well maintained, riverside, 19th century factory complex. Added - 4/1/18
Diamond Match, Chico, California | Grounds of a former match factory. Added - 4/1/18
1910 Philadelphia German Population and Historic Brewery Locations. Fixed - 2/4/18
A map of Extant Pre-prohibition Breweries. Added - 1/15/18
Michigan City, Indiana | The Pre-prohibition, Zorn brewery, and an old coaling tower. Added - 11/29/17
Butte Mined Areas and the Berkeley Pit, Montana | Mine scarred landscape and a toxic open pit mine. Added - 11/29/17
Butte Montana | Former mining metropolis Added - 11/28/17
Fort Wayne Indiana | A mid-sized, Midwestern industrial city. Updated - 11/28/17
East Central Spokane, Washington | A secondary commercial/industrial district and a pre-prohibition brewery. Added - 11/20/17
Ford's River Rouge Complex, Michigan | Ford's vast and weirdly empty River Rouge plant. Added - 11/19/17
Marseilles Illinois | An abandoned water powered Nabisco box factory. Added - 11/19/17
Plainwell Michigan | The nicely remodeled and reused, Michigan Paper Company mill. Added - 11/19/17
Flint Michigan | Former auto manufacturing center that is somehow managing to survive. Added - 11/18/17
Huntington Indiana | A small canal city with a well preserved late 19th century commercial district. Added - 11/11/17
Haymarket Monument, Forest Park, Illinois | The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument and graves of a several of radical labor activists. Added - 11/11/17
South Bend Indiana | Once a major industrial center. Added - 11/8/17
Gebhard Brewery, Morris Illinois | A wonderfully untouched example of pre-prohibition brewery design. Added - 11/6/17
Preston Castle, Ione, California | Closed reform school with a large Romanesque Revival central building. Added - 10/31/17
Oglesby Illinois| Former center of cement manufacture. Added - 10/31/17
Old Sugar Mill, Clarksburg, California | 1935 Beet sugar mill reused for wine tasting and sales. Added - 10/27/17
Freeport Illinois | An interesting downtown with a massive abandoned 100 year old medicine factory. Added - 10/27/17
Joliet Illinois | The ruined Old Joliet Prison and the Joliet Iron Works ruins. Added - 10/26/17
Pullman National Monument, Illinois | 1880s Company town now a national historic monument. Added - 10/25/17
Parchment Michigan | A ruined paper mill at the heart of a former company town. Added - 10/25/17
Antwerp Ohio | 1840s canal town that has neither grown nor shrunk in 100 or so years. Added - 10/25/17
Bartonville Illinois | What's left of Peoria State Hospital and the ruined Allied grain mill. Added - 10/20/17
Peru Indiana | Formerly known as "Circus City" with a circus museum and more. Added - 10/20/17
Belding Michigan | A western outpost of the late 19th century silk industry. Added - 10/17/17
Zug Island, Michigan | Apocalyptic industrial landscape on a small island near Detroit. Added - 10/1/17
Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit Michigan | Historic Park with questionable building maintenance. Added - 10/1/17
Packard Plant and Michigan Central Station, Detroit Michigan | The newly stabilized Packard Plant and Michigan Central Station. Added - 10/1/17
The Leaning Tower of Niles, Illinois | A half scale replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa on a suburban strip. Added - 9/28/17
Hawthorne Works, Cicero Illinois | A water tower behind a strip mall is all that's left of what was the largest telephone factory in the US. Added - 9/27/17
Riverside Illinois | One of the first planned suburban communities. Added - 9/26/17
Interurban Bridge, Waterville Ohio | A ruined interurban bridge. Added - 9/25/17
Chicago Illinois | Union Stockyards and the Central Manufacturing District. Added - 9/25/17
Nicholia Kilns, Idaho | Preserved charcoal kilns in a very remote valley. Added - 7/2/17
Smelterville Idaho | Small town next to a closed and demolished lead, silver and zinc smelter. Added - 7/1/17
Glencoe Mill Village North Carolina | Well preserved textile mill village. Added - 7/1/17
Empire Mine State Historic Park, California | Preserved underground gold mine. Added - 7/1/17
Oakdale Cotton Mill Village, North Carolina| A classic southern textile mill village. Added - 6/26/17
Scotland Neck North Carolina | Small town with two boarded up textile mills, historic downtown and an exotic bird park. Added - 6/18/17
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park California | Large 19th Century hydraulic mine, now a state park. Added - 6/18/17
North Bloomfield California | Preserved ghost town, Malakoff Diggins State Park headquarters. Added - 6/18/17
North San Juan California | Small gold rush town. Added - 6/18/17
Ramseur, North Carolina | Small textile mill town with a mostly demolished mill. Added - 6/16/17
Greensboro - Proximity Print Works and Revolution Mill North Carolina | The ruined Proximity Print Works and the renovated Revolution Mill. Added - 6/16/17
Klickitat Washington | Lumber mill town with abandoned lumber mill. Added - 6/16/17
Cedar Falls, North Carolina | Small textile mill town with two mills. Added - 6/15/17
Wickes Montana | 1870s-80s silver boomtown. Not much left aside from a charcoal kiln. Added - 6/14/17
Graham - Oneida Mill | Oneida Mill - a renovated 1882 textile mill. Added - 6/13/17
Scotia California | A well preserved lumber mill company town. Added - 6/11/17
Samoa California | A uniquely well preserved lumber mill company town. Added - 6/11/17
Rodanthe North Carolina | Water Fall Action Park, a small, roadside, abandoned amusement park. Added - 6/10/17
Carolina Mill, North Carolina | Well preserved but unused 1869 textile mill. Added - 6/10/17
Franklinville North Carolina | Textile mill town with a ruined 1840 textile mill. Updated - 6/10/17
Dee, Oregon | Site and ruins of former sawmill company town. Added - 6/10/17
Olympic Peninsula Washington | Some landscapes and nature shots around the Olympic Peninsula. Added - 6/6/2017
Bynum North Carolina | Added two pictures from a recent visit. Updated - 6/3/2017
Haw River North Carolina | Added a bunch of pictures from a recent visit. Updated - 6/1/2017
A Map of Notable Post-industrial and Other Anachronistic Places | Added - 02/12/2017
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