Abandoned Southern Virginia: Reckless Surrender
Author: Cindy Vasko
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634993678
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Abandoned Southern Virginia
Author: Liz Roll
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2021-06-28
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634993289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouthern Virginia's heritage is rife with stories of the past and the buildings to go with them. Take a step back in time, into the Deep South, and learn about Civil War spies, including Richmond resident Elizabeth Van Lew, one of very few female spies. Step inside a lunatic asylum in Radford, into a world where apparitions are more common than visitors. Author and photographer Liz Roll takes you on a marvelous journey through where the South truly begins: Richmond, the austere capitol of Virginia and home to many beautiful abandoned sites with rich histories. Liz Roll weaves the reader through all these tales with a keen eye for beauty among the ruins.
Forgotten Virginia
Author: Sean Toler
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781634992268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew construction seems to be taking place all around. In every direction, there is another shopping center, neighborhood, or business park being built. With all the commotion and progress, it can be easy to forget what was. We tend to neglect the old, abandoned buildings around us, leaving them to decay or suffer a brutal demise by the cold, hardened steel of heavy equipment. In the world of photography, there are those who seek out these forgotten pieces of history in hopes of capturing what's left on camera, thereby preserving them in their own way. Author Sean Toler is one such photographer. Traveling the roads of Virginia, he has photographed numerous old, abandoned buildings in an effort to make them last a little longer. Knowing that some of the buildings he has photographed no longer stand, he is grateful that he was able to capture them before they disappeared from the landscape forever.
Abandoned Virginia
Author: Dave Bentley
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634993647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbandoned Virginia: Forgotten in Time covers abandoned and decaying churches, schools, farmhouses, and more. Explore houses that appear suddenly abandoned, schools forced to shut their doors due to declining enrollment, and once booming businesses that were forced to close shop. With so much history left behind, one question always remains: Why? This book will trace the history of Virginia through a photojournalistic approach and document some of these important places that have been left behind. Take a journey through the history of one of the original thirteen colonies and discover a behind-the-scenes look at some of these abandoned places, left to decay and be reclaimed by nature.
Abandoned Northern Virginia
Author: Cindy Vasko
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2022-02-21
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634993807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorthern Virginia's forlorn footprints are close to the din of our nation's capital, yet some still cling to their old Southern roots, especially those from areas steeped with Civil War imprints. While a few derelict places are fortunate to have their legacies preserved, too many abandonments vanish at the direction of Mother Nature or the wrecking ball. This Northern Virginia collection of forsaken structures includes several Civil War-era vestiges--indispensable markers in America's most decisive era. Other chapters illuminate a strategic bastion formerly immersed in Cold War tensions, a coastal defense fort secreting clandestine activity for decades, a once lively dinner theater nightspot recently eradicated from the landscape, a shuttered business cloaked in eccentric lore, an infamous prison, a penal work camp succumbing to nature's green hand, the bygone remembrances of grist mills, a rural chapel, the remains of a bucolic gentleman's farm, and even a Northern Virginian ghost town. Observing these Northern Virginia images' desolate beauty and grasping the weight of their life chronicles allows one to appreciate how history is the best way to greet the future.
Abandoned Coal Towns of Southern West Virginia
Author: Michael Justice
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2021-04-26
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634993104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbandoned buildings provide us with a look at the past. Often these structures are all that's left of the history of a bygone era. The images within these pages will help tell the story of forgotten coal towns of West Virginia and provide a way for others to explore them before they are demolished or reclaimed by nature. Take a visual journey through these abandoned towns with photographer Michael Justice. If you've ever seen a building and wanted to explore but didn't have the time or lacked personal safety equipment (these places are dangerous and caution should be used), this book is for you. While the buildings are abandoned, there are signs of life. No buildings were harmed in the making of this book.
Abandoned Virginia
Author: Joel Handwerk
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634992954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever driven past a dilapidated old building, with broken windows and covered in ivy, and wondered what happened there? How long has that building been vacant and left to be consumed by nature? This book takes you on a photo tour of such buildings in Virginia, all forgotten and falling apart. There is an Art Deco city skyscraper, which formerly held a bank, complete with a bank vault. Another property contains a sprawling complex of a former Catholic high school. Additional locations include houses, schools, commercial warehouses, and even a former outdoor Renaissance Faire. Sometimes there is available information about how these buildings became abandoned. In other cases, the story is a complete mystery. Regardless of the details, there is something intriguing about seeing a structure that has slowly decayed, a once pristine place being transformed into broken glass and crumbling ceiling tiles. The people are long gone, but you can still see what remains of something they have left behind, just waiting to be discovered with a camera.
Abandoned Northern Virginia
Author: Liz Roll
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781634991858
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Abandoned Eastern Virginia
Author: Linda G. Cassada
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634991728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tidewater region of Virginia contains some of the oldest cities in the country. Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown, as well as many outlying communities, all inhabit this marshy coastal area. Like other regions that have survived the passage of time, these regions contain a treasure trove of forgotten curiosities. In Abandoned Eastern Virginia, let author Linda Cassada guide you to the region's most captivating of abandoned places. Journey down backcountry roads, across fields of waist-high grass, and through dense underbrush. Venture down dirt lanes to discover homes--once grand and full of life--that were mysteriously abandoned. Prepare to stumble upon discarded machinery and objects and to catch a glimpse of places, covered with dust and infested by insects, which have been untouched by man for decades. In silence and desolation, these places sit. Only the buzzing of bees and the occasional chirp of a bird can be heard as these abandoned curiosities slowly return to the earth. You will appreciate the beauty of nature's silent and thorough destruction, feel the loneliness and sadness of these hidden wonders, and no doubt wonder how these once-cherished possessions and structures came to be so utterly forgotten
Concord, Virginia
Author: Peter Neofotis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2009-07-07
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1429969504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the places set between folds in the Earth, voices echo against mountains..." So begins the story of Concord, Virginia, one of those places set between folds in the Earth. It's a place like almost any other Southern town, filled with self-righteous preachers, descendants of slaves, upstanding town leaders, and the ladies of the local bridge club. But Concord has something else: a dark heart. A church has been abandoned. Vultures have been roosting in the trees at George MacJenkins's house. Poisonous snakes follow Rachel Stetson into the river for a swim. And the ghost of Thomas Jefferson has recently spoken through a man chained to fate. Deftly spinning a web of stories from the voices of the town, Peter Neofotis creates a captivating portrait---comic, dramatic, bombastic, and tragic---of a place trapped in time and possessed by the valley landscape that surrounds it. In the tradition of great Southern gothic writing, Peter Neofotis brings to life the town of Concord, Virginia, allowing even the ancient voices there to swirl through the glazed brick streets like the Fork River. This collection of short stories is a pulse-raising debut by a writer who's created a place the reader will never forget.
