Got a chance to visit a ghost town! Pictures.

I went to a small mining town earlier today called Adirondac. It was located near Newcomb, NY, down a long narrow road at least 15 miles from anything.

A little history for you people who think things like this are interesting, (please read! It will help the captions make much more sense!) : The MacIntyre Blast Furnace (circa 1848) is, well... a blast furnace, used to literally melt the iron out of iron ore. It's the most well preserved 19th century blast furnace in the world. It has started to be restored this summer, which really took a lot out of the crazy feeling to it, because it was a little more manacured, so that all sides of it could be reached by people to fix up the brick linings of the furnace. Last Year and at the beginning of this year, it looked something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyuKPkfgh-o . This video also shows some nice pictures of the town at the end of the video.

The town was filled up with about 100 people, a ton for the time, and they all had money set on their minds. Sadly, the town was too far away from civilization, and soon everyone left, because there was no way to transport the ore back from the out of the way town (15 miles from anywhere else, and at least 60 miles from a well populated area.)

There were a total of about 18 buildings that are still able to see.
Sadly, many people can only find 8 because of the crazy overgrowth. We found 9.

Anyway.... on to those pictures! (Just so you know, only the first picture is HUGE, I thought of uploading all the picts here but realized that would be too long. The rest should be fine.)

First thing we came up to was the Enormous furnace. Which was much bigger than we thought it would be. Sadly, because it was being preserved, they put up signs telling you to not go in or near the furnace, but the video posted above shows some great shots. But I guess it was for a good reason, now at least people will be able to go in this for many years to come.
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This was the restoration process ^^^ Just re-doing the bricks to all of the entrances of the furnace, not helping the structure of the building in any way, just making it look nicer. Personnally I like the bricks lying everywhere, just naturally falling down one by one, but oh well...


The thing was huge. HOW DID THEY BUILD THIS 150 YEARS AGO!?!


For a comparison to how huge this thing really was... See the little house shaped thing in the bottom of the furnace? I could stand and reach up and barely touch the top of the wooden structure. (About 7 feet)


Notice the incredible bracing used on all of the pictures. All of those braces going up the building are diagonnaly connected with the ones on the other side, and then there are more braces going directly through the building. This thing wasnt going to fall down anytime soon.



Next up we drove by where Thomas Jefferson stayed. He was here at the first picture below's building when he got the word that the President had been shot.

He also stayed at this Hotel shown below the day before he was going to hike Mt. Marcy, the tallest mountain in NYS. Not sure if he ever did hike the mountain or not since he got the word of the President dieing.



Now on to the cool stuff! Wreckings!

Heres some of the General Buildings:



Roof and Floor, caving in.

If I took ONE more step, I would have fell into the ground, slid under the building and ended up in the basement, then I'm sure the floor would have feel on me. The area was really dangerous, but that's also what made it so cool.

I love that picture.

This is a picture of an old bridge. The bridge was washed away by a flood, and also 3 or 4 of the buldings were washed away. It's said that you still can see very little of the remains for those homes, but we have been quite the amount of rain lately, so the river was high an unable to walk over in any way. But, we did get to see one of the most luxurius houses sitting right on the water from the other side. I tried to take pictures, but sadly, you cant make out the house in any of them. I'm mad that we weren't able to get across the river. Because I've heard from others that some of the more cool things are over there.


This house slowly fell over the hill as the ground eroded away from underneath it.


I do not have any idea how the chimneys survived. I guess it's kind of like the story of those three pigs. The brick house survives. So the brick chimeny survives...[stoning]


This stuff is actually only about 70 years old. They wanted to start using the pump house again, so they got new equipment, but this also failed shortly after once again, and the equipment just sat there.


Congrats to 'Master' Locks on making a quality lock to the pump house. If only the hinge held! hah!


Well, the steel and concrete held up nicely in the pump house, but the wooden walkway didn't as well. Funny, the steel handles are the only thing holding up the walkway.. I guess if you need to make a walkway that you know is going to get wet frequently. Dont use wood you silly people!


This house held up VERY well, the only one without the floor caving in. This was also the house that I saw something move twice. Back and forth. It truly FREAKED me out, but no one believed me. I truly did see something and am still a little freaked.


I know you've always wondered if they had medicine cabinets back then when there wasn't any elctricity or anything... And.. they did!! lol. How this is still attatched to the walls is beyond me, my guess? Definatly 1 inch thick titanium hook screws. pff


You think if I kicked that stick out the whole building would fall . I do. This was my favorite building, other than the awesome furnace. And the inside was so cool (seen below).

You can see a telegraph machine.

Just so awesome the way the wall is slowly falling apart.


This was the building that was the most recent. The one that the person built who had the idea of the water pump. It was the only building with any form of Furniture left.

LOL, he wasn't that smart of a guy! haha! His roof was in one of the worst conditions of anyone! And it was 3 times younger! hah!



Anyway, I had an AWESOME time. And if you are anywhere in the area of Newcomb, or the Adirondacks and are looking for a nice short trip, I highly recommened going. Just make sure to read up a tiny bit on the town before you go, it makes it MUCH more interesting!





Thank you for reading! If you want any pictures at the full size for any odd reason, please PM me! I won't mind one bit! Thanks!

-Austin

Creepy.

It looks like a lot of fun!

Originally posted by tiepilot35

Creepy.

Thats what i was gonna say.........

^ I've never had more chills go through my body when I saw that thing move in the corner of my eye. Not so bad the first time it happened because I didn;t think anything of it. But omg, I booked it outta that area after that.

[Oscar]

piff, no ghosts in the pictures!

lol. No. There isn't.