Category: Ruins

Last Year in Black and White

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I have taken these shots over the last year or so on my Canon 35mm SLR and my Yashika 120mm twin lens.

Euharlee Creek Covered Bridge – 35mm
Old Mill – Berry College – 35mm
Waterfall – 35mm
West Virginia – 35mm
Florida Southern College – Frank Lloyd Wright -35mm
High Museum – 35mm
Chickamauga Battlefield – 120mm
Old Mill – Berry College – 35mm
Nuttalberg Coal Mine, WV – 35mm
Old Mill – Berry College – 35mm
Waterfall – 35mm
Smokey Mountain River – 120mm
Barnsley Gardens – 35mm
Bridge – 35mm
Euharlee Creek Covered Bridge -35mm
Waterfall – 35mm
Barnsley Gardens – 35mm

Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins

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Old Paper Mill Rd Bridge at Sope Creek
Old Paper Mill Rd Bridge at Sope Creek

Sope or Soap Creek was an industrious little area in the middle 1800’s.  Near intersection of Paper Mill Road and Sope Creek are several old industrial ruins. These ruins used to be the center of an industrial center based on the waterpower that the creek produced. During the period from 1850 to 1940, a paper mill, twine plant, flour mill and hydroelectric power plant occupied an area about one mile long.  At one time a wooden covered bridge spanned the creek here, but was lost on March 29, 1964 when it burned to the ground leaving behind only the steel shanks and masonry.

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