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Processing Sugar from Beets in the Early 1900s
This is the historic Longmont Refinery today. Captured from the ground floor, this large format image shows exactly how many pipes, catwalks, and tanks occupy a typical refinery. Walking through a...
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Steam Power in Colorado’s Sugar Factories
These Detroit Rotograte Stokers work great at continuously discharging ash from the burning of coal. These stokers at the Great Western’s Longmont refinery were part of a much larger system of boilers...
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Chihuahua to Creel – Day 2 in Mexico
As I pulled out of the Holiday Inn express of Chihuahua, Mexico (yes, I actually stayed at an evil American conglomerate – and, I might add, overpriced at 900 pesos). The extra cost did, however, pay...
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Day 5: Batopilas to Cerro Colorado… and Back
The Inside of the Lost Mission of Satevo. See the previous entry for more on Satevo. I had the privilege of touring with a Tarahumaran guide. The Tarahumara, as a people, are fascinating. They are the...
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The 1893 Fair That Changed the World
In 1892, an entire city arose from the swamps of Chicago to host the greatest mass of people ever assembled in the United States. On the heels of the Paris World Exposition, America wanted to display...
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A Complete Guide to Urban Exploration
photo by Jon Haeber We live in a post-industrial world, and our connection to the modes of production, our infrastructure, and the cogs of society is becoming more and more disembodied from day-to-day...
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An Abandoned Mansion from Lebanon’s Past
Downtown Beirut is full of silent and boarded buildings, which stand between the featureless identical cement apartment blocks that make up the periphery. Most are pockmarked with bullet holes and —...
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The Macabre Saga of Ogarita Booth Henderson
Stone Opera House Stage Door: Where Ogarita Booth Henderson and her husband, Al, worked with the Floy Crowell troupe. Editor’s Note: What follows is what will hopefully become a series of articles from...
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Richmond’s Winehaven: A Future Indian Casino?
Editor’s Note: What follows is a retrospective of the controversy surrounding an abandoned site in a secluded spot near the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California. Since I moved to the small city in...
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Binghamton’s Buried Stream of the First Ward
The history of Binghamton’s First Ward leads many to stand in front of a given area and say things such as, “Here was once a great scale-making factory,” or “Here was a factory that sold Matthew Brady...
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