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Wheedle
Location: Northwest Georgia, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 200 likes
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| Wheedle
Location: Northwest Georgia, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 200 likes
| | | Re: Chasing Ghosts Of Coal And Steam < Reply # 1 on 6/8/2016 1:44 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The next day I visited Glen Rogers, Coalwood, Gary, and Switchback. Glen Rogers was one of the largest mining camps in the area, with a company store, boarding house, community center, and elementary and high school. It was also one of the most dangerous places to work, with many serious accidents leading up to its closure in 1960. Coalwood was home to the Olga mine, which produced until 1986. It was also home to the 'Rocket Boys' of October Sky fame. Gary is still a fairly active city, but the old Gary Negro Grade School and the Gary District High School are very much abandoned relics from the era of segregation. The current brick structures were finished in 1928 and 1925, and closed in 1975.
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| | | Posted by odinsink These are amazing. Looks like you went onto some occupied lands a few times. Did you? Did people say anything about you walking around with your camera? That old railroad bank building is incredible history.
| The only people I ran into was a Park Ranger at the maintenance shed at Thurmond, and a couple of locals at Glen Rogers. I chatted with the Ranger about the site, the security cameras, problems with vandals, and future plans for the site. The Glen Rogers two locals were interesting. One guy was a bit shifty, but thankfully wandered off soon. The other, older, guy was a little apprehensive of me at first. Apparently, some years back a film crew had come through and done some interviews and such for a short documentary that had not been too flattering of the locals. I explained what I was doing, and my interest in the area. The best we can figure, some of my dad's side of the family left the coal mines of the Virginias for oilpatch Arkansas in the early boom years of the 1920's. After that, he was very friendly and open about his life in, and after the mines, and some local history.
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| | | Posted by Wheedle
The only people I ran into was a Park Ranger at the maintenance shed at Thurmond, and a couple of locals at Glen Rogers. I chatted with the Ranger about the site, the security cameras, problems with vandals, and future plans for the site. The Glen Rogers two locals were interesting. One guy was a bit shifty, but thankfully wandered off soon. The other, older, guy was a little apprehensive of me at first. Apparently, some years back a film crew had come through and done some interviews and such for a short documentary that had not been too flattering of the locals. I explained what I was doing, and my interest in the area. The best we can figure, some of my dad's side of the family left the coal mines of the Virginias for oilpatch Arkansas in the early boom years of the 1920's. After that, he was very friendly and open about his life in, and after the mines, and some local history.
| Thurmond is actually where my dad was born. He is in PA now, when I go up to see him next I am going to check this place out.
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