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I recently got the chance to (re)visit an interesting spot. It was at one time, a shipyard to build liberty ships during the second world war. In the Early two-thousands it became a preposed waterfront development, hoping to one day compete with the infamous Sea Island. The development made it just far enough to build two show houses (well a show house, and an office space), put in the basic infrastructure, a few roads, then go bankrupt. The owner of the original company fled the country with whatever was left, and screwed many people over. Regardless, this is the meaningless history. It still is sitting empty, and has many traces left of the once J.A. Jones shipyard.
 JAB_2947 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
From a distance, the home looks to be in pretty decent shape, possibly even in habited.
 JAB_2987 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Then you get up close and personal and realize.
 JAB_2983 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
It's not even complete....
 JAB_2944 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
The same goes for the abandon office building, it looks decent but look close. look at that railing around the porch and how the stairs are literally blocked off.
 JAB_2949 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
at least they had good intentions... maybe. Word was they were going to take out parts of the original cradles to put in a pier and marina....
 JAB_2910 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
A cradle, looking back towards the sydney lanier Bridge. (yes original to the shipyard) that is directly infront of the rear of the large house.
Back during highschool, this was a place I spent a LOT of time before the new owners bought it. It use to be "wide open" meaning no one really cared who came in and who went out. We use to come do all kinds of stuff, and both houses were entirely unlocked. I've been in both. I'd been all over. About two years back, a new group bought the property but has done nothing with it, other then lock it down, and keep people out. This was just a recon mission to test a back way in. My next post will include all the actual historic buildings on the property, the cradles, the old dock, and the old warehouses. I just didn't have time to make it that far, I just wanted to test my POE. the buildings are back towards the direction I'm facing in the below photo.
 JAB_2952 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
The largest building pictured is a factory, that's on the other side of a canal that sat desolate all my years of high school. A company just bought it with the intent of making gypsome (what it originally made through the gp company). However, I may have allegedly infiltrated it a few years back, and it will most likely become a thread of it's own sometime soon.
I plan on making a full on thread, once I finally get the chance to get some more photos. I also planning on giving all the history I know of it.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by relik
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks! I found some really old shots from a few years back I may add to the thread.
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Nice set and write up!
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Posted by ATLviewer
Nice set and write up!
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Thanks for the reply! I found some old images I'm about to post. Interestingly enough I took them exactly three years ago today.
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Well, I found a few I wanted to throw up before continuing the search for more. These are all three years old (exactly to the date oddly enough) and when I was shooting with a d100 (painfully dated). The editing in post is pretty eh on some, but oh well. don't judge me for these.
 gp plant by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
The factory, much closer. Maybe a future post getting thrown up on this.
 back of building by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
I think this is an old shot from my phone, but this is the "back" side of a building by the canal. It's got massive sliding doors, and there use to be a boat sitting next to it on the ground. Still trying to find an image of the old wooden hull.
 building 1 of 1 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Inside of that building.
 breakers by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Breakers on that wall and some old novel.
 breakers 1 by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Another breaker shot.
 outlet by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Old 2 prong outlet.
 lamp by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Florescent lights. Thought these were kind of oddly placed.
 window by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Old glass window in that building.
This building was connected to the ruins of what looked to be a massive ware house that may have burned. I'm looking for photos still.
 liberty ruins by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Another building, or what's left. next to this building are several foundations. (or were)
There was another building I'm having a hardtime finding photo's off right now.
I'm planning on revisiting sometime in the next day or so, and gonna make the trek back to where these are, and see if there still there. Like I said all these images are from 2012. I just haven't been out there in a while. I was planning to go today, but it was dark by the time I was off work.
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 map of liberty by rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Figured I may as well go ahead and show the layout of the place. sorry it's so small, trying to keep any names off the map so it's harder to identify for those untrusted.
Inside the red, are the building I mentioned, and ruins, left of the blue across the old canal is the abandon factory. Inside the orange, the two homes from the original post. Inside the green box, the original cradles. Above (meaning on the map) the original warehouses have been converted to use by an engineering firm. I didn't include them, because there name was on the map.
When I make the full thread, I will make a better map, and blur out all the names on it, and make it show everything far better.
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