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 rhorizon
Location: Manassas, VA // NoVA
Gender: Male
 |  |  | "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
< on 11/25/2008 9:18 PM >
|  | | | [Disclaimer: The following may contain extreme satire and must not be taken seriously]
"Hidden away in the Shenandoah Valley, 'Valleyville' is considered by many7 to be Central Virginia's own twist on the legendary "Area 51." Like its famous counterpart, Valleyville is an off-limits region whose only access roads are gated and guarded, whose perimeter is electronically seals and monitored, and whose existence itself is denied by the government. Unlike Area 51, however, Valleyville serves an entirely different purpose. There are no runways at Valleyville and no top secret aircraft being tested. Instead, Valleyville is by all outward appearances a town...a seemingly self-contained town which for all intents and purposes is sealed off from the rest of the world. Tucked away in a noon-and-cranny of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley, there is no vantage point in Valleyville from which another town or even a road can be seen. Likewise, it is nearly impossible for the outside world to peer into Valleyville, and airspace within three miles of the town's center is restricted.
What is the purpose of Valleyville? There is much speculation, but the running consensus is that Valleyville is in all probability some form of international (or possibly internal) political 'detainment center.'"
(http://www.retrowe...ractions/main.thml)
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I know what you're thinking: "Was für ein haufen von sheisse!" I'm not going to get into why the above is absolutely ridiculous and I'm not going to count the ways that it can be debunked (although there isn't restricted airspace anywhere in the area that the town is said to be - I have the charts to prove that one)
BUT - there is something that is abandoned in the area where Valleyville is described to be. Enter the Old Virginia Brick Company and their long abandoned open pit sand mine north of Big Island, VA.
I had a few hours of flight time to waste so I took off and flew over the area where I believed "Valleyville" to be (after using Google Earth to narrow the search). I found the open mine and what looked to be a few abandoned buildings below so I wrote down the coordinates and plugged it back into Google Earth for directions. My fiancé and I drove up to the site this past weekend to poke around and we found numerous old concrete ruins and a few gated-off underground tunnels. Light was fading and we were ill equipped to cave, so we're saving those for another day. But I did get pictures of what was above ground:
(All above images copyrighted: RadiantHorizon Photography 2008)
I'd love to see if the location has already been added into the database, but without a full membership I'm stuck.
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tick
 
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 2 on 11/25/2008 10:30 PM >
|  | | | Thanks for posting this. One of my co-workers told me about this place, but couldn't remember the exact location correctly. Those tunnels look... interesting.
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kts
 
Location: Laurel, MD
Gender: Male
LOL WAT?
| | | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 3 on 11/26/2008 3:24 AM >
| | | | that 2nd shot is awesome.
SERIOUS BUSINESS - proud member of the 2nd legitimate Baltimore urbex crew that exists. |
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Katetron
Location: Middlesex New Jersey
Gender: Female
melting your brains
| |  | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 4 on 11/26/2008 6:38 AM >
| | | | i want to see this damn it
too many people not enuff swet |
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aGlock4u
 
Location: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Urbexing North Carolina
| |  | | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 5 on 11/27/2008 5:10 AM >
| | | | I think Old Virginia Brick had another mine near Elliston that I have been itching to explore..
Jake
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rhorizon
Location: Manassas, VA // NoVA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 6 on 11/27/2008 6:13 AM >
| | | | By entering the text on the first sign in Google I was able to bring up a list (possibly incomplete) of all of Old Virginia Brick's mine sites.
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DevilC
 
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 7 on 11/27/2008 8:35 AM >
| | | | Interesting.
Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: "Valleyville, Virginia" (The Town That Doesn't Exist)
<Reply # 8 on 12/17/2008 11:24 PM >
| | | | I swung by the brick works today... pretty neat. Photos don't do justice to just how massive some of these concrete monoliths really are.
I explored one of the tunnels, because... well, that's kinda what I do.
This tunnel ran for a long ways, and it's possible (for skinny people) to go in one end and out the other. There's still a few pieces of original equipment left down there, but it's mostly empty. Occasional openings in the ceiling let in a small amount of light. I think this tunnel used to have a conveyor belt, collecting waste product from the (long-gone) building above, and carried the waste to near the exit from the brick works.
[last edit 12/17/2008 11:25 PM by tick - edited 1 times]
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