Photos from June 2013 Old Brunswick Town predates the American Revolution and was once an important port along the Cape Fear River. The growing size and importance of nearby Wilmington chipped away at Brunswick’s significance and population. In 1776, the British attacked the town and scattered its few...
With all the attention Centralia gets, it’s amazing most people are unaware of other mine fires and disasters. I admit I had never heard of Avondale until I went looking for a geocache hidden there. How does a mine disaster site with a 100+ death toll become overlooked?...
This was an added bonus to an already scenic hike. This tunnel can be found along the trail in the Glen Onoko section of Lehigh Gorge State Park. It’s not very long, maybe a few hundred feet in length. The Central Railroad of New Jersey constructed it in...
This place can be found along the water in Scarborough State Park. We noticed it coming back from the Block Island Ferry. Really not much to say, other than it’s impressive oceanfront ruins. Poison ivy abounded here; luckily I managed to avoid it.
Not far from the port on Block Island can be found the ruins of the Ocean View Hotel, destroyed by fire in 1966. Sections of the foundation and some rubble are all that remains of it today. The area also had quite a bit of poison ivy, so...
I had been meaning to get to this one for a number of years, but it was usually out of the way. Since we were touring a mansion in Newport, I finally had a chance to get to the “Viking Tower” in Touro Park. Nobody seems to be...
