Great photos. I was the caretaker for an abandoned farmstead for a few years. Three old houses and other rotting buildings, also some tiny decrepit little house trailers that suggested the place had been a small Hooverville during the Depression. It had been ransacked and vandalized before I ever got there so all the old belongings that weren't worth stealing were strewn about and left to the wind, rain, snow, and hungry earth. I spent years going through it like an archaeologist searching for post industrial artifacts. Old cars, trucks, farm machinery, tools, household stuff, and all of it either rusting or rotting. It was an environmentalist's worst nightmare that included barrels and barrels of old oil and agricultural chemicals. I learned the history of the man who created it all, and of his wife and daughter. There were two old gypsy wagons in the yard and it was once rumored that the farmer killed the gypsies for their horses and buried them somewhere out there. Whether it's true or not a lot of history is buried out there.
The place was sold a few years ago and everything there was either bulldozed and burned, or hauled away. - So it's nice to see an authentic touch now and then like that basement.
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Great photos. I was the caretaker for an abandoned farmstead for a few years. Three old houses and other rotting buildings, also some tiny decrepit little house trailers that suggested the place had been a small Hooverville during the Depression. It had been ransacked and vandalized before I ever got there so all the old belongings that weren't worth stealing were strewn about and left to the wind, rain, snow, and hungry earth. I spent years going through it like an archaeologist searching for post industrial artifacts. Old cars, trucks, farm machinery, tools, household stuff, and all of it either rusting or rotting. It was an environmentalist's worst nightmare that included barrels and barrels of old oil and agricultural chemicals. I learned the history of the man who created it all, and of his wife and daughter. There were two old gypsy wagons in the yard and it was once rumored that the farmer killed the gypsies for their horses and buried them somewhere out there. Whether it's true or not a lot of history is buried out there.
The place was sold a few years ago and everything there was either bulldozed and burned, or hauled away. - So it's nice to see an authentic touch now and then like that basement.
it looks like a serial killers lair.
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