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Ivanhoe >
National Carbide
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created by Dowcet
on 11/21/2005 10:53 PM
last modified by Scaggs
on 1/21/2007 3:22 PM
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It's been a while, but I remember a long narrown building I could not get inside, and a really massive structure of concrete and metal that you could kind of walk underneath. The old railroad tracks are still there. There was a random deer carcass rotting in the middle of everything.
I kind of found it by accident and didn't have my camera with me.
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Type: Small Complex
Status: Abandoned / Mostly Demolished
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: check it out if you're nearby
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Address
Carbide Lane
Ivanhoe, Virginia
United States
Owner: Wythe & Carroll County Industrial Development Authorities
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not sure, but be VERY careful!
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a massive and evil-looking structure
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wooden boarding on one building
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Ivanhoe was built as a mining town, and this factory made carbide to fuel the miner's headlamps. Around the time the main photo was taken, it employed about 500 people. When it closed in 1966, severe PCB contamination was left behind, but during the 1990s this site was remediated.
From The EPA:
The National carbide Corporation in Ivanhoe, Virginia produced calcium carbide. The old National carbide facility was originally
built in 1917. The company began operation with three (3) furnaces and added two (2) more furnaces after becoming a unit of the Air Reduction Company in 1922. The Ivanhoe facility manufactured calcium carbide by heating lime and coke in an electric furnace to 3400'F at which point the molten product was tapped off. The molten carbide was poured off into "chill cars" where the carbide was allowed to cool. After several hours of cooling, the hardened carbide, in a mass weighing approximately 3,000 pounds, was hooked out of the chill car by an overhead crane and cooled for at least an additional twenty-four (24) hours. After cooling the carbide was reduced by crushing to several different sizes. From the crusher the carbide was sorted by a sizing machine and stored in storage and packaging bins. The carbide was then packaged in metal containers, also manufactured at the Ivanhoe plant, and stored or shipped (Rhode, 1948). The facility closed in 1966.
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This site is likely to be left alone.
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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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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 3/29/2007 8:26 PM.
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on Mar 29 07 at 20:26, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Mar 29 07 at 14:27, SaraBellum deleted gallery Getting Our Fix and its 16 pictures
on Jan 21 07 at 16:49, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Jan 21 07 at 15:22, Scaggs changed the following: Owner, Street Address, Prefer Satellite
on Jan 21 07 at 15:16, Scaggs added some pictures to a gallery
on Jan 21 07 at 15:15, Scaggs added some pictures to a gallery
on Jan 21 07 at 15:14, Scaggs updated gallery Getting Our Fix
on Jan 21 07 at 15:11, Scaggs created a new gallery
on Jan 21 07 at 4:11, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Jan 21 07 at 4:05, Scaggs changed the following: Web Links
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