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UER Forum > Archived US: South > Hard luck farmhouse (Viewed 1138 times)
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Hard luck farmhouse
< on 11/11/2007 5:15 AM >
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I dont seek out these abandoned residential places to explore necessarily. I always seem to feel like Im intruding on someones past and often come away kinda sad if not depressed. For one thing I dont like pawing through peoples personal belongings. I step over stuff and go to great lengths not to disturb anything.

But whenever I spot an abandoned farm house within a half mile or so of the road its hard to resist stopping to check it out. This one may have fallen on hard times. Somebody still grows cotton on the land around it. And its obvious they raised chickens here.

As I got closer I was greeted by an old familiar friend. I had one identical to this. It no doubt served its owner as well as mine did. Like a rock!


I wished I had run across this place on Halloween night. With a full moon. There was an erie silence only the grasshoppers and wasps were moving. I also wished I had brought a machete to clear a path.


Just so its kept in context, this style of house was popular in rural Texas through the 1940s but this one may be older than that. I noticed some wood trim and details in the walls similar to 1920s style construction. Materials? Yeah, its all wood, oak mostly, except the roof and its steel.


They raised some chickens out back. A small operation probably sold to the local market before the Tysons and Pilgrims consolidated all the growers.


I wondered if a bird flu or failure to pass some tests might have ultimately shut them down. Dated 1991.


Chlorinated solvent banned by the Montreal Protocol in 1995.


Old cotton farms are notorious for chemical pollution of soil and ground water especially with pesticides and herbicides. So much so that cotton processing plants often became contaminated themselves. Even the privy was used as a dump for chemicals here.


The kitchen. It still had food and dishes from their last meal.


The clothes were cleaned and neatly hung up.


The master bedroom. I said I dont like digging through peoples stuff but I still pondered what might be underneath all this. Some of these folk didnt trust banks and kept valuables under their beds.


Or hidden in the closet. But looters know that and someone apparently ransacked this place.


This bedroom appeared relatively intact. No air conditioners around here and I can imagine sleeping was difficult on hot summer nights.


So why did they leave? Water well dried up? Poisoned by agricultural chemicals? State quarantined their flock? Or just got old and died? That would explain the adults but what of the kids?


We know kids lived here. On the porch maybe some homework that never got finished.


A little girl left her doll right where she last played with her.


I always wondered what these things looked like inside.



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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 1 on 11/11/2007 5:59 AM >
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Wow....nice find, I feel upset as well looking at old houses sometimes. Just makes you wonder.
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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 2 on 11/11/2007 6:38 AM >
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these kinds of houses, with the stuff still in them, are the best

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 3 on 11/11/2007 7:20 AM >
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Sad story for sure! I find it strange that in picture of kitchen there is an
empty egg container! What self respecting chicken farmer would buy eggs at a grocery store? ..unless they knew........chicken eats (banned) chemical loaded food then farmer eats (banned) chemical loaded chicken thus farmer grows third arm! but then again only a thought I love eating chicken and my third arm is doing fine
thank you very much

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 4 on 11/11/2007 3:55 PM >
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Wow, great find and awesome pictures!

I love old houses, but like you said it usually leaves me sad and wondering what happened to the people who lived there. Seeing kids dolls laying around and clothes hung up is the worst. It's almost like someone came and kidnapped them and they were never heard from again.

I absolutely love the shot you got of the 'intact bedroom.' Very nice!

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 5 on 11/11/2007 6:18 PM >
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And I do love that truck, what is that a 1960? I am a big advocate of Chevrolet trucks....they are the best and easiest to work on (in my humble opinion). I would be tempted to find the current owner and try and purchase that bad boy.
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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 6 on 11/11/2007 7:23 PM >
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Awesome find 2X. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 7 on 11/11/2007 7:25 PM >
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Its always sad to find a home in shambles

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 8 on 11/13/2007 6:39 AM >
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Oooh, I love that bed! I have a similar one (only in better shape) that I inherited from my great-grandmother.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 9 on 11/13/2007 11:22 AM >
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maybe they found oil and moved to beverly hills?

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 10 on 11/15/2007 6:20 AM >
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Posted by musket boy
maybe they found oil and moved to beverly hills?


Nonsense, don't you watch tv? They switched their car insurance to Geico.


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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 11 on 11/15/2007 2:56 PM >
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What a find, 2X. You never cease to amaze me!

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 12 on 4/7/2008 6:48 AM >
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Wow, Nice find.....Maybe they got abducted by aliens!

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 13 on 4/14/2008 9:44 PM >
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you really got some good pix in there 2X

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 14 on 4/15/2008 7:21 PM >
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Nice find 2X.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 15 on 4/15/2008 7:27 PM >
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this place is awesome dude. houses are the best.

thats one sad looking etchy sketch.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 16 on 6/5/2008 8:46 AM >
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The vet paper has something circled, most likely the state shut down the chicken opporation due to a lack of a permit. I bet the local farmer left because the bank took the land and sold it to the person who farms nearby. I have an uncle who has 80,000 acres of bean land and he has a lot of old farm houses on his property that he's never been in and only sees when he drives by in his tractor.
The looters are more likely kids or other UEers since no one has stripped any copper out of the place.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 17 on 6/8/2008 1:44 AM >
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Spooky how it looks, for the most part, it looks nearly the same as it did after the people left.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 18 on 6/8/2008 3:28 PM >
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Posted by SiMuLaCrUm
Spooky how it looks, for the most part, it looks nearly the same as it did after the people left.


Yeah, they were always shitty house keepers.

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Re: Hard luck farmhouse
<Reply # 19 on 6/16/2008 7:14 PM >
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the reason why a lot of farms get closed down is because of huge debts and the bank forecloses them. Most likely what happened to that farmhouse. I'm puzzled to as why they left all their stuff behind tho.

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