Mcdowell Magnets

Mcdowell's

Stairway to either the second floor or the basement in the abandoned Coalwood School,Coalwood WV

Coal hopper by the boiler in the basement of the abandoned Northfork WV High School

Graffiti in the upper floor of the abandoned Vivian coal company store,Peerless Coke Company,it was built in 1912

Abandoned class room, Iaeger Middle School, Iaeger WV

Grave inside the Thorpe Cemetery miners graveyard

My interpretation of the iconic scene from the movie when they enter the milk bar. I wanted something menacing so I cranked the exposure on the original painting

This is actually the 3rd floor of the abandoned Coalwood School. The lay off it,reminded me of some of the slightly less touristy Roman ruins.

A former church school in Gary WV, it was converted to apartments for local miners,and then abandoned.

Basement,the Coalwood High School,Coalwood WV

Abandoned coal tipple near Cucumber WV, McDowell County WV

Third floor classroom in the abandoned school in Keystone WV

Third floor in the abandoned Keystone School, it was last used at all after it closed as a backdrop for scene in the Richard Gere,Edward Norton film Primal Fear,and then finally abandoned again forever. It is VERY hairy to get up there to the third floor,but I love this shot,so,worth it.

Abandoned cafeteria, Gary Middle School Gary WV, McDowell County WV

View of Iaeger WV across the Tug Fork river

Mountain Top Removal site near Cucumber WV,I couldn't think of another name for this piece that summed it up so well.

Clock inside the abandoned Elkhorn Elementary School, Elkhorn WV, McDowell County WV

The old post office in Iaeger WV,which was taken over by Sunamco and now looks abandoned by them.

Most unexpected of finds in an abandoned coal processing plant near Six WV. It just looked like someone carefully set them down,and then just never came back

Steps down to the basement of the abandoned Keystone School

Hidden plinths in the woods behind the coal wash office building in Jenkinjones WV

Basement in the abandoned company store in Vivian WV

Remains of a truck servicing,coal loading station near Cucumber WV

Inside the abandoned coal company story Vivian WV. It was about 0 degrees that day, I had to stop shooting when both batteries I had with me lost juice because of the cold.

Former U.S. Coal and Coke Company offices in Gary WV, McDowell County WV

The remains of the boiler room in the abandoned Coalwwood school

Remains of a piano inside the abandoned Pageton church.

While nosing around an abandoned funeral home in Keystone WV, I nosed around at the garage in the back,classic 60s Chevy Impala,and this stretcher.

View upward in to the bell tower at the abandoned Connely's Chapel,Gary WV

Abandoned playground at the closed Pageton WV Elementary School

Abandoned Coal Tipple near Cucumber WV, McDowell County WV

Line treatment of a photograph of the crumbling filing cabinets in the upper floor of the abandoned company store,Vivian WV

Abandoned 1949 Fleetmaster Aerosedan in Gary WV

View out from the basement,abandoned company store,Vivian WV

Abandoned coal mine portal, outside of War WV, McDowell County WV

Classroom in the abandoned Iaeger Middle School, Iaeger WV