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Abandoned Ghost Road Next to a Cemetery in Warren County, Ohio, Blanchester

Apparently there was a county road that came off of Ohio Route 123 that ran alongside the New Hope Cemetery. This small portion of road is still listed on Google Maps as Starkey-Cleavenger Road. The r…[View More]

Remains of an Abandoned Historic Railroad Line, Built in the 1850s, Guilford, Dearborn County, Indiana

Hidden from the outside world yet just 400 feet southwest of busy State Route 1 in Dearborn County, Indiana are the remains of the bridge abutments from a rail line built in the 1850s. I covered this …[View More]

Abandoned Beaty Bridge, Jennings, Florida

This pony truss bridge over the Alapahoochee River is known as the Beaty Bridge and was built for George Washington Beatty & J.A. Hodges in 1911 and abandoned in the 1970s. The bridge replaced the…[View More]

Cook’s Run “S” Bridge, Cambridge, Ohio

What remains of this bridge known as the Cook’s Run S Bridge, was built in the late 1820s as part of the “National Road”. In a nutshell the National Road was the first federally funded road whic…[View More]

Abandoned Phantom Bridge, Kimbolton, Ohio

Starting back in 1820 a log mill was built on the south side of Wills Creek directly opposite of where the foundation of the last mill stood on the north side of the creek. This was known as a “corn…[View More]

Emerson Road Abandoned Phantom Bridge, Cohutta, Georgia

Built around 1920 by the Champion Bridge Company based in Ohio, this bridge was bypassed in 1991 when the current bridge was built. A concrete memorial stands at one end of the new bridge with a plaqu…[View More]

Florida’s Bridge to Nowhere, Live Oak, Florida

Built in 1931 by the Austin Bridge Company of Dallas, Texas this bridge was in use up until 1971 when it was bypassed for the new alignment of Route 129 just 1100 feet downstream. No longer open to au…[View More]

Salem Ridge Methodist Church, Rising Sun, Indiana

This video about the abandoned Salem Ridge Methodist Church which was built in 1855 was submitted by students at the Rising Sun High School in Rising Sun, Indiana. 38°59’46.2″N 84°53R…[View More]

The Bridge to Nowhere, Chicago, Illinois

Constructed in 1895, Chicago’s “Bridge to Nowhere” is an old Chicago Surface Lines “Streetcar” trolley line which is now part of the Chicago Transit Authority. The bridge was built by the Ch…[View More]

Zorger Road Bridge, Lumber City, Pennsylvania

This abandoned bridge was constructed in 1885 as a railroad bridge for the New York Central Railroad line that served as a logging railroad for towns like New Millport and Kerrmoor. It was converted o…[View More]

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