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 HillbillyHorus
   
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
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< on 7/31/2005 5:30 AM >
|  | | | Just curious if anyone here has been exploring much in the Charlottesville area. The VT Underground site has some material, but not nearly as much as it could. It seems as though the main features here are drains and the steam tunnels on Campus. I tend to avoid steam tunnels. The only way in the steam tunnels 'round here is through man holes. There are some nice factories. Some goth kids used to go to this old coal tower downtown, but someone was murdered there (they were buying heroin), and since then that particular building has been locked up and tabooed. There are two mills on East Market St. (a little road which follows the railroad tracks from Downtown), and those are pretty interesting. The only other mill I know of is visible as a short smoke stack you can see out of your left hand side window driving down Monticello Ave., going away from the city from downtown. I am pretty sure that it is a textile factory (like most of the industrial sites here), so me and my friends call it the "Pajama Factory", though this could very well be untrue. So far, the only way I can think of to get in is to cross 64 (a very bad idea as it's a major highway), or to traverse some drains that go under it (you can see them on the side of the Rivanna Trail). I also found a barbed wired fence in the general vicinity of NorthEast Park in the woods with blown up cars on the other side. Me and my friend Malachi found a gap in the fence, but I'm not sure whether it's a construction site or perhaps an illegal dump of some kind. And, as with all cities, there is some nice sites for infiltration. The City Water service buildings seem cool, and someone has very kindly cut a hole in the fence. Anyone else explore in this area?
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | |  | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 1 on 7/31/2005 2:09 PM >
|  | | | No, I think it's just you & me.
I've been to that old coal tower, I didn't know it was ever accessible. Wasn't some girl assaulted & beaten there a few weeks ago?
I'll have to look for those mills on Market Street. I know there are two abandoned power plants in town... one is on the river next to I-64, the other is up the railroad tracks a little ways in Woolen Mills. The one by the interstate provided electricity for the city, but I'm pretty sure the other one just provided electricity to the mills.
I'm looking at my map, trying to figure out where that "Pajama Factory" is... Is it near Blue Ridge Hospital?
I've been doing a lot of exploring on UVA's grounds lately. They lock the steam tunnels up tight, that's for sure... but plenty of the rooftops and mechanical rooms are wide open.
Do you know of any decent drains in town that I don't have on my website?
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 2 on 7/31/2005 3:37 PM >
| | | | I'm afraid not. I have only been draining twice, though that would be a nice thing for me to explore more. Now that I think of it, maybe the "pajama factory" is a smokestack of one of the buildings at those water treatments facilities. Like I said, you can see it off of Monticello Ave. It's much further down I-64 than the two power plants.
Never been able to really get in, but I think it will be my next place.
[last edit 8/1/2005 1:21 AM by HillbillyHorus - edited 1 times]
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 3 on 7/31/2005 4:09 PM >
| | | | Also, what's up with those clothes and signs of a campfire I occasionally see in front of the Big Power Plant (the one with the really tall smokestack)? Are there hobos or something there? And what's that smaller warehouse-looking building across the river? I'm pretty sure they use it for storage, but I don't doubt it's explorable.
Have you done anything in the "Warehouse District"? I've always wondered which ones are abandoned, but it can be hard to tell if it's just a trendy bar trying to look abandoned 
And one more thing, what are some good buildings to check out at UVA? The one time I went was with my Dad and his friend (a college professor). We were just walking in the evening and ended up in the parking lot of the stadium. The doors were unlocked (!), so we went in. We also went onto the LaCrosse field, and some trailers I think UVA's janitors use (it had snacks and things in it), and all of this was completely unlocked and bare. We didn't even see cameras. I go to UVA often just to find books at Alderman Library (I'm not a student but my father is a nurse at UVA hospital so I can check out books), and me and my friend found some rather uninteresting things while looking for books. Like in the East Wing on the 5th floor is where they keep all the old cards you used to use to look up books.
All of those tracks near the coal tower are bad news. You always hear about drunk college girls getting mugged or harassed while crossing them at night, but I'm pretty sure the coal tower was once accessable. There's this documentary called Still Life with Doughnuts about Belmont which interviews some people who used to go there.
I've never been to Blue Ridge Hospital. I heard one time a teacher took kids there for a field trip without permission and was arrested for trespassing. I think the cops use it for training sometimes, so I've avoided it.
I'm only 13, so I don't think we can really go ueing together or anything unless it was in town, though my parents are quite allowing with my hobby.
I don't own a digital camera, but the next time I go I'll borrow my neighbor's.
[last edit 7/31/2005 6:28 PM by HillbillyHorus - edited 1 times]
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seicer
  
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 4 on 8/4/2005 9:21 PM >
| | | | What sites are visible from Interstate 64? When I was coming through the area last night, I saw a smokestack and a water tower...
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 5 on 8/5/2005 12:19 AM >
| | | | The smokestack is for the abandoned C&A Railway power plant, and I believe that the water tower is for Woolen Mills (not abandoned).
Posted by seicer
What sites are visible from Interstate 64? When I was coming through the area last night, I saw a smokestack and a water tower...
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Lots of homeless people hang out at the power plant. Almost all of them are cool, but I ran into an unfriendly transient there once (I believe he's left town, though).
Posted by Horus92
Also, what's up with those clothes and signs of a campfire I occasionally see in front of the Big Power Plant (the one with the really tall smokestack)? Are there hobos or something there?
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[last edit 8/5/2005 12:29 AM by tick - edited 1 times]
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 7 on 8/5/2005 8:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by tick
Lots of homeless people hang out at the power plant. Almost all of them are cool, but I ran into an unfriendly transient there once (I believe he's left town, though).
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I tend to avoid hobos. Not that I have anything against them. Most are pretty cool, and I've seen some on the back trails in the woods (on one memorable mother's day, some folks on the other side of Moore's creek were shouting "God bless y'all", but they were probably just drunken/stoned redknecks), but you never know who to look out for and who to greet. Some people in my group are paranoid over them, but I frequently tell them that they're mostly harmless.
On an unrelated note, I plan to start posting pictures of the abandoned sites here in the (to be created) Charlottesville section. I just need to get my damn scanner to work.
Edit:
Nevermind. I need to be level 3 to do that. I'll just post them here.
[last edit 8/6/2005 12:30 AM by HillbillyHorus - edited 1 times]
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 8 on 8/6/2005 10:43 PM >
| | | | It'll take me forever to fix my scanner. I need to call the company (and that can take all day). There's a good picture of the small power plant here:
http://rivannariver.org/images/WoolenMillsPowerPlant029_400x302.jpg
My picture is of the hill covered in undergrowth, and I didn't get a chance to go in. I couldn't climb the hill because of the poison ivy (I'm violently allergic), and the only other way is to enter from the tracks on the other side, which I didn't want to do at the time.
A picture of the dam can be found here:
http://rivannariver.org/images/WoolenMillsDam026_750x500.jpg
To the left of that picture, though you can't see it in the pic, there's the foundation of the mill, but it's just a stone foundation with some nails sticking out, and not exactly UE.
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butthead
Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 9 on 8/11/2005 5:15 PM >
| | | | Ya know guys, now that I think about it, there was a cool place I used to go to when I was younger in Cville that's probably still around...
There was an old sewage treatment plant on the north side of town. Access was through woods off Holmes Av, but there is a road that goes to it, Pen Park Ln. (Not Pen Park Rd that goes to the park) PP Ln is the one before it off Rio, after the curve, headed to 29.
This is obviously still owned by the City, and the Public Works folks were using it for a dumping ground for old stoplights the last time I checked...
Might be worth a trip to check it out... Like I said, it's been a long time, but I presume it's still there...
Matt
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 10 on 8/11/2005 9:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by butthead
...I presume it's still there...
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Yeah it's there, but it's been heavily demolished (unfortunately). All that's left is piles of rubble, assorted junk, a fence, and a big-ass sewer pipe crossing the creek that's fun to walk on.
Interestingly, the Rivanna Trail runs through it.
edit: By "runs through it", I mean that the Rivanna Trail runs through the abandoned STP, not creek, and certainly not the big-ass sewer pipe. Although the trail does cross under the pipe and through the creek.
[last edit 8/11/2005 9:32 PM by tick - edited 1 times]
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butthead
Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 11 on 8/12/2005 12:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by tick
Yeah it's there, but it's been heavily demolished (unfortunately). All that's left is piles of rubble, assorted junk, a fence, and a big-ass sewer pipe crossing the creek that's fun to walk on.
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Ah, that's too bad... I remember going down there and checking out all the traffic signals...
I'll see what I can dredge up in my memories for other opportunities in the area...
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 12 on 8/12/2005 1:25 AM >
| | | | I haven't been to the sewage treatment plant, but I have been to the water treatment plant on the south side of town. You just enter the Rivanna Trail through that baseball park in Belmont. The plant's surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, but there's a bridge within the plant that crosses Moore's Creek, and then you can squeeze through the fence where it borders the bridge. We left quickly when we went, because there was a car driving around, but whenever I walk by it it's pretty deserted. Do you guys know where I'm talking about?
[last edit 8/12/2005 1:27 AM by HillbillyHorus - edited 1 times]
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butthead
Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 13 on 8/12/2005 2:52 AM >
| | | | Posted by Horus92
I haven't been to the sewage treatment plant, but I have been to the water treatment plant on the south side of town. You just enter the Rivanna Trail through that baseball park in Belmont. The plant's surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, but there's a bridge within the plant that crosses Moore's Creek, and then you can squeeze through the fence where it borders the bridge. We left quickly when we went, because there was a car driving around, but whenever I walk by it it's pretty deserted. Do you guys know where I'm talking about?
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That's the main plant now. The main entrance is on Franklin St, down by Carlton Mobile homes... Other than the adminstration building, I don't suspect there are many people working at any one time...
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 14 on 8/12/2005 4:08 PM >
| | | | I've been to other parts of the plant. One of my friend's dads works there at the computers, and I went in with his son to meet him. It really is a pretty cool site. Probably one of the best places for infiltration in C'Ville, besides perhaps UVA. I suspect there might be some damn cool drains there . . .
I see some drains that go under 29, and I'm pretty sure you can get into the property by going in them. They're not to exciting, most are only 40 ft. long or so.
Edit: Have you guys been in the drains there? Are they worthwhile?
BTW, I'm going on vacation tomorrow for two weeks. In the first week I'll be in New Hampshire staying with family friends, in the second week we'll be in Buffalo, NY visiting family. In NH, I can probably keep checking the forums. Might even do some UE. My friend there and I explored an occupied hydroelectric plant last time I was there. I won't be able to post while in Buffalo much. I'll be smothered by my 42 cousins and 14 aunts/uncles (yes we're catholic )
[last edit 8/12/2005 5:51 PM by HillbillyHorus - edited 2 times]
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 15 on 8/28/2005 1:03 AM >
| | | | You know that skate-park near McCintire (sp?!) park? There are some stairs on the opposite side of the street from it that I've always wondered about.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 16 on 8/28/2005 5:17 AM >
| | | | Yeah, I know the stairs you're talking about. Haven't checked them out yet, but I suspect that they just lead up to some houses.
Interestingly, the road running by there is on an old railroad bed... If you look across the intersection at the park, you can still see an old railroad cut in the hillside (it's part of the golf course now).
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 17 on 9/1/2005 2:00 AM >
| | | | Speaking of abandoned railroad tracks, there are those tracks running by Bodo's Bagles (not the UVA one, the older one). Those might go to mills. Do you know anything about them?
There's also the active concrete factory behind the recycling place. It's down the road from the stairs, away from McCintire park. I can't wait until that get's abandoned. That's some serious UE right there, if they don't knock it down.
There's another small industrial site here, near a trailer-park. It's hard to describe where it is. I'll walk to it some time and find out the address. It's near the to-be-demolished building with backward "S"'s on it.
[last edit 9/1/2005 2:03 AM by HillbillyHorus - edited 1 times]
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 18 on 9/2/2005 3:04 AM >
| | | | Posted by Horus92
Speaking of abandoned railroad tracks, there are those tracks running by Bodo's Bagles (not the UVA one, the older one). Those might go to mills. Do you know anything about them? |
Yeah, they used to be the main north/south line running through town (many years ago) - they used to extend to that abandoned railroad bed that runs through McIntire Park. Now I think it's just a spur to serve the concrete plant. Don't know if there's anything else cool along that line though.
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Charlottesville Virginia Explorations
<Reply # 19 on 9/2/2005 8:16 PM >
| | | | Me and two friends are going to the big power plant and probably the little power plant this weekend. I haven't been into the little one yet (sad considering I've passed it dozens of times), and want to check it out. Who knows? It might have a cool basement like the big one. Do you want to meet us? I can understand if you don't want to due to our age, but if you do we'll be standing next to that little concrete-house-lookin'-dealey with electric stuff inside. Please respond!
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