Located within the bounds of the Lone Star State, this location was a prison that housed about 1,000 prisoners, even a little bit more than that at its peak. The prison was fully self-sufficient and included a detergent and soap factory, a mechanic shop, a meatpacking section, a freight transportation terminal, and farming operations. Most recently, the prisoners were minimum security and first-time offender males. The grounds once included several thousands of acres but has dwindled to around 330 acres in recent years. An airport lies adjacent to this property and has recently purchased a sizeable portion of the land.
The property itself is nestled within an area that is being aggressively developed from every direction. Because of this, the land alone is estimated to be worth over 10.1 million dollars. Translation: this prison’s time on this earth is very limited. At first we couldn’t figure out why most of the outlying buildings were tagged with a big red “D,” until Peptic connected the dots (duh, I don’t know why it took us so long!). “D” was for probably for demolition, not just another really bad, random tagger marking his territory. The land itself is absolutely beautiful. I’m worried though, that the sudden lack of security and security measures might mean that the end is very near. I’ve seen this happen before, and it usually precedes a large demolition.
I wish I could include more detail about this fascinating location, but I don't want to make it too easy to figure out where this is! It's not a huge secret, but it's also not totally trashed yet either, so hopefully it can stay that way a little longer.
All of these photos are SOOC (straight out of the camera) and unedited with the exception of the one with the name of the location cloned out of the photo. I will add more to the post as I edit them, but I'm notoriously bad about posting these things late, so I decided to just post what I've got so far and add to it as I can. I hope you all enjoy what I have so far.
Peptic Ulcer has also provided an excellent post on the same location here:
http://www.uer.ca/...rrpage=2&pp#post20 (this is a private thread, so only full members can see it).
Hope you enjoy!
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
I liked the above photo much better with the name of the prison on it, but decided to clone it out for obvious reasons. The cloning took away from the actual photo unfortunately.
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
My best guess on what this could have been was some sort of place where the visitor line formed since it was right along the secured boundary of the prison.
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
When Peptic picked this up to see what it was and accidentally dropped it, causing it to make a popping noise as its contents scattered throughout the air in the room, I immediately thought, "Anthrax!" Fortunately, we both are asymptomatic so far! Neither one of us had any clue as to what it could have been. It was located in the veterinarian section of the property for anyone that cares to take a guess on its contents...
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
We both assumed that given the layout of the main building, the floors would be identical or pretty close to it, but we were wrong. The way the floorpan had been implemented was not uniform, but seemed confusing and chaotic to me throughout most of the facility.
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Lifetimes Without Parole by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Leaves of three, let them be (especially when they overtake the whole tree)!
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
I would love to come back and light paint this location! Very post apocalyptic here...
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Dee Ashley, on Flickr
Thank you again, Peptic, for a wonderful explore and for being such an excellent host! Please thank Mrs. Ulcer for me as well for opening up her home to a complete (female!) online stranger and taking the time to make me feel comfortable. I'm in your debt!
I hope the rest of y'all enjoyed this location as much as I did, cheers!
- Dee
