Tagged With "abandoned house"

Chicago will open its new Bloomingdale Trail, a park built on 2.7 miles of abandoned railway on June 6. That's 6/06 if you write it a different way, and 606 is both the root of Chicago area codes, and the name of an overall park project (the606) that...

Italy has numbers of abandoned villages, emptied by earthquakes, landslides or economic losses, and some of them are now being brought back to life as resorts, artists' colonies and more.   A recent article on TheLocal.it gave some examples,...

  It may seem unusual for a travel writer to be interested in the abandoned, derelict and forgotten. I am usually telling my readers where to travel and what to visit when they get there. But Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences is such a...

While driving through Western New York, Jonathan L found this abandoned mansion and learned its story from the owners.

Great photos and great house! I love stopping at abandoned old houses! Fun that you heard a little about the history.

Goldfield is an old gold-mining town, largely abandoned, but with some of its history on display.

DrFumblefinger visits two largely abandoned churches in the small Badlands town of Dorothy, Alberta.

DrFumblefinger enjoys photographing old abandoned buildings, like this saloon north of Helena, Montana.

Abandoned structures are not uncommonly encountered off the beaten path in rural Wyoming.

Awesome photos. Did you get a look inside any of them? How fascinating!

This "small cluster of buildings" is Carter, Wyoming, founded by my great great grandfather, Richard Henry Carter. The title image is the Carter Hotel, built by him at the time the Union Pacific Railroad came through Wyoming in the late 1860s, the tracks just across the road. It became more family home than business, my grandmother lived there as a young child.

How amazing you were able to visit there. I love family history. You are so fortunate to literally see your family's past!

Thanks for your comments, Marilyn and PortMoresby. I didn't look inside. A lot of older buildings like this are boarded up, and many aren't safe to explore. Fascinating that you recognized the place, PortMoresby! Yes, there was a train track just across the street from your ancestor's home. I didn't see a name to the village, but it definitely seems to be Carter, WY. If I'd known, I'd taken a few more photos of the place to share.

Re: On the Road in Wyoming

DrFumblefinger shares photos of an abandoned barn and railroad track located in western Montana.