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Shad Roe, An Abandoned Delicacy

Abandoned Country Posted on 25 March, 2013 by Ben Swenson25 March, 2013

Nothing says spring like two fat roe sacs on a plate. That’s what our great grandparents thought, anyway. Much of the food our forbears looked forward to arrived in the manner that many folks want theirs today–slowly, locally, seasonally. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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The Richmond Coal Basin, Part II – A Dear Price for Energy

Abandoned Country Posted on 18 March, 2013 by Ben Swenson18 March, 2013

On the forest floor behind a country churchyard near the forgotten village of Winterpock, Virginia yawn two deep holes. One is covered with a square frame of concrete and a metal grate. The bottom is underneath somewhere, but it’s concealed … Continue reading →

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The Richmond Coal Basin, Part I; Dover’s Little Pits and the Beginning of a Burning Legacy

Abandoned Country Posted on 11 March, 2013 by Ben Swenson18 March, 2013

Drive west on Virginia State Route 6 from Richmond and you’ll come to the fringes of suburbia where the signs announcing new subdivisions end and the scenery has blended into countryside. Somewhere near here, more than 300 years ago, a … Continue reading →

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Where John Wilkes Booth Died; The Garrett Farm

Abandoned Country Posted on 4 March, 2013 by Ben Swenson3 September, 2014

John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, would be aghast to see the spot where he met his end. After all, the vainglorious murderer scoffed at what he was told was the $140,000 price on his head. He thought it should be … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ghost towns, Military, Miscellaneous | 137 Replies

Deal Island, Maryland and Better Days Gone By

Abandoned Country Posted on 25 February, 2013 by Ben Swenson25 February, 2013

A news report I read recently quoted a local calling Deal Island, Maryland a dying community. That image was a potent siren call. I had no choice but to investigate, particularly since Deal Island is an icon of Bay culture, and … Continue reading →

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Eastern Gold, Part II – Great Falls, Maryland and a Road Paved with Gold

Abandoned Country Posted on 18 February, 2013 by Ben Swenson19 February, 2013

No telling how many would-be immigrants to the United States actually believed the mantra that the streets of this prosperous land were paved with gold. What few people realize, however, is that there’s a spot just outside Washington D.C. where … Continue reading →

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Eastern Gold, Part I–The Goodwin Gold Mine and Virginia’s Shining Past

Abandoned Country Posted on 11 February, 2013 by Ben Swenson30 June, 2013

If you had to guess the origin of the gold that adorns us, Virginia might be one of the last places that comes to mind. Fact is, however, there’s a chance–albeit a small one–your jewelry once resided deep in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Industry, Mines | 3 Replies

Reagan National Airport and the Mother of All Weeping Willows

Abandoned Country Posted on 4 February, 2013 by Ben Swenson19 February, 2013

The way Benson Lossing tells it, the Abingdon willow really got around. Well, the fruit of her loins did anyway. The remarkable tale of the promiscuous weeping willow of Abingdon Plantation isn’t as much the story of lost structures as … Continue reading →

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Posted in Legends | 5 Replies

Fisherman Island, Real Estate from Thin Air

Abandoned Country Posted on 28 January, 2013 by Ben Swenson2 February, 2013

What happens when real estate appears more or less out of thin air? Turns out the answer’s not all that difficult to find out. Fisherman Island is at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula.   The most remarkable thing about … Continue reading →

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Baltimore’s Curtis Creek, A Motley Assemblage of Ruined Vessels

Abandoned Country Posted on 21 January, 2013 by Ben Swenson4 April, 2022

Cities are as much a vault for abandoned history as the countryside, and there’s something logical and engaging about urban exploration.  The whirr of production, the odor of industry, the energy are all as much a part of the bay’s … Continue reading →

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Richmond’s Belle Isle and the Mixed Blessing of Water

Abandoned Country Posted on 14 January, 2013 by Ben Swenson2 February, 2013

John Roberts and his wife were surely crushed. Their six-year-old daughter had been missing almost a week when she turned up, accidentally drowned, caught in a fish trap in the swiftly-flowing James River. It was 1862. Even with news trickling … Continue reading →

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Far Pocosan, or, Pocosin Mission; Shenandoah National Park

Abandoned Country Posted on 7 January, 2013 by Ben Swenson8 July, 2013

The Towles sisters, Florence and Marion, must have wondered what they’d gotten themselves into.  On dark nights they huddled together in a ramshackle cabin, terrified, miles from civilization, listening, Florence recalled, “to the thunder of flying horses’ feet and the … Continue reading →

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Mallows Bay

Abandoned Country Posted on 2 January, 2013 by Ben Swenson30 June, 2013

Surely the oddest spectacle in all the Chesapeake Bay’s tributaries is Mallows Bay.  You can’t help some sense of bewilderment paddling about the 170-odd burned and weather-beaten hulks, their remnants barely breaking the surface of the murky water, their keels sunk fast … Continue reading →

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