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Location DB >
United States >
Texas >
Abilene >
The Cottonseed Plant
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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About 2 acres with an office building, factory, warehouse and various smaller buildings. Its actually like an industrial complex that covers 2.5 blocks. The building itself is a typical 2 story concrete and masonry structure connected to material handling hoppers, conveyors and other apparatus. I suspect it was built in the early 1920s and its on an active rail spur. While its in pretty bad cosmetic condition, structurally it seems to be Ok. There are active businesses adjacent to it and those employees cut through this property and the rail spur area on weekdays.
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Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: - select -
Recommendation: forget it
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rust unsafe flooring water air quality fall hazards via holes in floors and walls, broken glass
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Some very large furnaces, very large screw conveyors other weird machinery some of which is very large used for processing cottonseed into oil and cattle feed. Did I mention there are very large tumbleweeds here?
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fences locked gates burglar bars
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Southern Cottonseed Oil now part of Archer Daniels Midland built many almost identical oil processing plants like this all across the southern states. This facility extracted the oil from cotton seeds for use in products such as paint, industrial lubricants even mayonaise. The hulls and lint were sold as by-products. The cotton seed oil industry took a big hit when petroleum was discovered in Texas. Then soybean oil largely replaced cottonseed oil in foods and most of these old extraction plants shut down. This one appears to have been converted to handle other products such as peanuts at one time. Across the street is a smaller building that I believe housed the management or adminsitrative offices. From 2000 to 2005 that building was owned by a suicide victims support group. See it here http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=32346 Now its abandoned too. Today its abandoned for all practical purposes but its got a real nice rustic atmosphere, some mega machinery still in place, freight train action and add to that the occasional bum, hobo, employee encounter make this Abilene's most enjoyable exploring opportunity. UPDATE: Its gone the seed plant has been leveled and cleared off sometime between 2011 and 2012. Some associated buildings still remain, their gates locked up. The former suicide office is some other active business now while next door a crisis center is operating.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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Photography |
7 / 10 |
Coolness |
8 / 10 |
Content Quality |
8 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 7/7/2016 6:15 AM.
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on Jul 7 16 at 6:15, Steed validated this location on Jul 3 16 at 0:36, Explorer Zero changed the following: Owner, Street Address, History, Interesting Features, Future Plans, Description, Web Links on Jul 3 16 at 0:31, Explorer Zero updated the main picture on Jul 2 16 at 22:42, Explorer Zero moved this gallery out of this location on Jul 31 14 at 2:43, Mike Dijital validated this location on Jul 31 14 at 2:22, Explorer Zero changed the following: History on Jul 31 14 at 2:21, Explorer Zero changed the following: Interesting Features on Jul 31 14 at 2:19, Explorer Zero updated gallery Suicide Counseling on Jul 31 14 at 2:18, Explorer Zero reordered images in gallery Suicide Counseling on Jul 31 14 at 2:18, Mike Dijital validated this location
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