Hi Jane I didnt realize people still live there. You couldnt leave your house to go out and even have a nice barbecue because the odor was so bad, said an interviewed resident recalling how bad it was a few decades ago. 4. Ive read about a few Vermont women who were said to be witches, and usually, the accusations and evidence were in the camps of consorting with the devil or using magic, which lead to mischief like making cows stop producing milk, crop failures, townsfolk suddenly being inflicted by mysterious maladies, and innocuous stuff like predicting the weather before it happens. But from what I heard about them they were often gloomy places, and many unfortunates spent their lives there and went to the grave there. But the area and its springs were recantedby the 1980s, and its increasingly run down appearance as well as the construction of an interstate highway miles north that movedtraffic away from the village, only helped to make it forsaken. That part of the mine was eerily quiet, the only sound was our boots clomping through deceptive ground that was more mud than ground, the unmistakable odor of sulphury perfumeinhaled by my nose that doesnt belie the truth of the matter here. Gulfs are known to the rest of the world as a large area of the sea or ocean thats almost entirely surrounded by land, expect for its mouth. And out of any time of the year, you can be most appreciative of our habit to ruin than the fall, when visibility is best. I know some people that hit a jackpot with their metal detectors around it. This was often accomplished by dumping those items on a far corner of the farm, or let gravity take it down a river bank. And Im glad I did its since been demolished. 71 Munsill Ave, Bristol, VT 05443 $475,000 3 bds 1 ba 1,056 sqft - For sale by owner The interior was filled with the debris of century old farm equipment, hidden doors and other relics. Some places can be visited during day time but are scary to explore at night times. There's more to, Kristin Grimes lives in Vermont, is a freelance writer and busy MOM (Manager of Madness) and WIFE (Washing, Ironing, Feeding, Etc.). I have no idea what sort of place this was in its heyday, but finding all these signs made me assume that in its last days, it seemed like a drab, down on your luck sort of experience. Brown bought Jones and Lamson and moved it to Springfield in 1888. If youre a New Englander, Id say were pretty lucky to have a great site like the New England Lost Ski Area Project. This was one of the few buildings on River Street to survive the flood of 1927, so that claim seemed pretty credible to me. You cant mention copper in Vermont without an acknowledgment of this place. As an old timer up in the Northeast Kingdom once explained to me; Why tear down a perfectly good barn when itll just fall down when its ready?. A friend of mine got in touch with me and said she had a new location up her sleeves, an abandoned farm up in the north part of the state, the dumping ground part of it was on her property and she hadnt gotten around to doing anything about it yet. The business decision was simple, extraordinarily effective, and a little bit revolutionary something that seems kinda peculiar nowadays; manufacture a single item, and be really really good at it. Though not much is really known about Chamberlain, it was apparently well documented at the time that he wasno lover of the Indian race, which may explain more about the content or the intent of this fanciful legend than anything. The town sharing a name with its positional county had over 1,000 bodies, a half dozen villages and 2 post offices in 1820, but by 1970, had a headcount of just 150. In the 1920s, aviation enthusiast and innovative inventorPaul Schill built an airport in town, where Sears and Ace Hardware are today (which accounts for the pancake flat plot of land along Route 7). The Green Mountain Racetrack when I visited back in Spring 2011. Know of anything weird, wonderful, or abandoned? But, that doesnt mean obscurities cant be found along Vermonts byways. Existing since 1933, The Pines wasnt one of the largest Borscht Belt resorts, but it was arguably one of itsgrandest. Todays Milton of the future has a CCTA bus line. Which is where I unintentionally found some local curio. As for Vermonts Corinth, though, a lot of other United States Corinths were said to come from this one! A story about Belvidere Mountain says that every day around 3500 tons of ore was extracted and used to make pipe linings, brake linings, roofs, and more. Route 7 turns into a limited access highway through most of Bennington County, until it reverts back to full access in Bennington and brings you right into its historic downtown district, the center of town being where it intersects with state route 9. I think the rather dramatic story of Wizards Glen may be more of a manifestation of the friction between two clashing cultures and their ideas, where everything else is sort of devalued, open for interpretation, or simply cast away. Eventually, curious visitors to the mine found several decomposing dog corpses stashed within Elys dank mine tunnels. But he does remember taking a glance at the completely exposed second floor and seeing a set of plans hanging around on a dilapidated desk in plain sight. It is a non-profit center for mental health and addiction. To be honest, lots of things on this road vie for your attention. As the sun rose above the martian landscape around the mines and the other miners awoke from their beds, they saw their strike leaders indignantly being marched down the main drag in irons. I was very interested in exactly how copper was made, and got a good amount of information from this site. Evidence of squatters camps could be found in a few rooms, which was a real poignant and sobering sentiment that there are some who do spend the night in this grim place, leprous with mold, rot and water damage that was beginning to make entire buildings buckle and bend as sections begin to lose their ability to do what they were designed to do. **Id especially recommend my favorite of his photos, a set of slimy and disused rails still can be found underground in the Ely mines. The ground is loaded with red ochre becausewhen stars die, they explode, and physics decrees they generate a bunch of iron as the result, which is pretty cool. But before that, we will advise you to do deep research on these spots before visiting them and be safe. While Im on the topic of gulfs, Id highly recommend checking out what may be Vermonts most beautiful; Granville Gulf, a rugged and impressive wilderness area of moss laden cliffs, ferns and waterfalls. To my delight and surprise combination, if you bushwhack through some waist-high tangle weeds and growth, you can still find some of the old ski trails, which were still hikable! Theres a story to every corner of these places. Some are only accessible by kayak, weather permitting, and offer creepy claustrophobicexcursions into dark spaces. I know barns usually lived double lives thanks to Yankee ingenuity, like this great story on State 14, of an old one in tiny East Granville that formerly was the towns dance hall that the current owners wish to restore. Im a little sorry I missed the springs themselves because I was later told that there is a dipper handy at the sulfur springs near one of the old bathhouses, and you can still sample them today. Here, the Lamoille River and gravity worked together to form about 5 waterfalls in a few miles of one another constricted ina rocky gorge, before relaxing at West Milton. The old Dutchburn farmhouse in Montgomery. Ironically, even the Adirondacks, the loftier and bumpier part of upstate New York, was still increasing in popularity, leaving the Catskills to corrode in rust and sorrow. In such a detached state, other jobs often werent here so you had to be self-reliant, until very recently with the emergence of the internet and a growing commuter culture. My talented friends at Antiquity Echoes made this great edit of their exploration to The Pines a few years ago, and their thoughtful camerawork shows much of the hotel that has long vanished. Give it a watch its pretty neat! I never expected Obscure Vermont to get as much appreciation and fanfare as its getting, and Im truly grateful and humbled. One of those places wasthe tunnel. We actually spent a good 5 minutes or so debating whether we actually wanted to enter or not, because the floors were so deceptively sketchy. Some rooms were completely destroyed, while others were strange enclaves of preservation, the difference at times depended on which side of the hallway you were on. In 1902, the Belvidere Mountain Mine suddenly became the biggest producer of chrysotile asbestos in the country. As you travel through the Vermont Green Mountains, youll find many abandoned barns in Vermont or, like the homes where generations of Vermont families have lived and died, factories, hotels, and even military posts. It seems most floors, apart from the fourth floor had them. I knew this area was hit hard during the flood of 1927 and artifacts, cars and even entire homes were swept up in swollen brown tides down this part of the river, depositing much that still rests below wet rocks and Hemlock trees today. Abandoned houses are historic and filled with architectural detail, something that we do not see on many modern structures.. One very tall form had wings, who the hunter thought to be the devil himself. There were quite a few dank 1970s office spaces put up hastily in areas that contained the infamous giveaway vinyl wall paneling and drop down ceilings, all which were accordion-ing now thanks to precipitous moisture. The light faded, the demons vanished and the hunter was left sopping wet in the middle of the woods in silence. Only, he never did, and died right there in Bennington County. Unfortunately, that was where the story went cold. However, after some time clambering around and almost rolling my ankle, I couldnt find any opening that could shelter a humanwho wasnt a small child, so either its long toppled, or I just didnt have good directions. Another vestige of that age is the incredible Hartness mansion itself, which has been turned into a bed and breakfast (and at the time Im writing this blog post, is up for sale according to Yankee Magazine). If I had just passed by, Id probably thought it was just another working farm. However the optical comparators division of Jones and Lamson, called J&L Metrology, still exists! Either way, I stopped my efforts. As Obscure Vermont has grown, Ive been growing with it, and the developing attention is keeping me earnest and pushing me harder to be more introspective and going further into seeking out the strange. Since Hyde's Hotel has been left empty, nature is slowly taking it back. Because Im a perfectionist, I wanted to get the feeling right and make this post interesting and fun, but I was also concerned about posting the location. In return, they had food, a bed, and clothes. Its no surprise that some superstitious Vermonters saw this as the coming of the end of the world. In atime period in America where a sizable roster of traditions and foundational history were sparked and now only largelyrecalled its main drag eventually became dressed up with handsome grand hotels that youd expect to see from that era, many rising above 4 stories and wearing broad porches and clapboard facades as its reputation swelled to anestimated 10,000 visitors coming in every summer, including the likes of the Vanderbilts, which is a name everyone loves to tote about if they had any relation to their area. The Vermont winters of today area bit more disparate. But, the librarians would be confused and explain that the library had no security guard. When I asked the family about the girl, it became more complex and amorphous like these stories always tend to do; there were no records of any young girls growing up or dying there, making this story a weird mystery. The area known as Wizards Glen, vs. the rest of the area thats not known as Wizards Glen, co-exist very inconspicuously with each other. They raided the company store, started destroying company buildings in the village, acted without foresight and broke the pumps that kept the shafts from flooding to make the mines unprofitable for the owners, and stole all the gunpowder and threatened to do further extensive damage with it if they didnt get their pay. But it was the relics from the places operational days that gave us a weird impression. When new train tracks were built a few hundred feet away, the old train station was closed and left empty. And it was a lovely early fall afternoon light jacket weather and foliage just barely starting to change into its death hues the perfect adventuring weather. Thank you! But I found it a real shame that other people whove stopped by have decided to completely decimate this place and use it as a law-free zone. The factory grounds had grown wild, and the brush was almost like it was alive clinging and scratching with every tendril available, as we hastily stumbled our way towards the tall metal smokestack that marked the factorys personal powerplant. That part of town became known as Kansas by the locals and soon became a wayfinding moniker. He found William LeRoy Bryant, a student at the University of Vermont, who joined J&L in 1897 as a draftsman and worked closely with Hartness on the cross-sliding-head turret lathe, which is where Bryant took an interest in grinding. Hartness certainly had a special knack for it, so much so, that it was said that one bank eventually refused to give him any more loans because they thought he was too creative! It also helped develop a local interest in ski races and became home to the Southern Vermont Racing Team. It ran significantly shorter, just over to the brick building next door which was also owned by the creamery at the time (now converted to a private residence). Overall I thought this was a real bummer of a place an attitude formed by the dated and ugly ruins, and the fact Ive never enjoyed or supported the kinds of revelrythat once went on here. Generations of Vermonters have been farmers because you did what you had to do to get by. . Its certainly one of my favorite Vermont tales to tell. Over the years, she and her familyhave heard the sounds of high heals clacking on hardwood floorboards upstairs, and of course, whenever one would go and investigate, the second floor would be empty. It was so good, that it was nicknamed the silent salesman. That discovery ensured that a few decades later, businessmen were compelled to begin mining for copper in Vermonts newly emerging copper belt. A better understanding of the flood also gave me a better understanding of the area I was going to explore. Expenses range from hosting fees to keep the blog live, investing in research materials, travel expenses and the required planning, and updating/maintaining vital tools such as my camera and my computer. Maybe I should invest in one of these. There was a tunnel, and she has seen it! To my disorientation, it was still pretty bright outside. Brown put together a group of intrigued investors, and in 1884, persuaded the invoked of a new Springfield law that exempted any industry that would move to town from taxation for 10 years. I was a little bummed I didnt find an old chairlift or more paraphernalia. I remember my childhood of playing in my paternal grandparents dusty old barns on their farm up near East Montpelier, finding ones near Chittenden County to store our 78 Toyota Landcruiser in for the winter, and spending some of the best days of my youth riding my 4 wheeler through sugarbushes and meadows on a 250 acre farm and some of the most beautiful land Ive had the privilege of having access to in East Wallingford. What). Vermont still has plenty of agricultural affairs left, but with milk prices not equaling the cost of production, dairy is slowly and steadily dying. Walking around through hay that stuck to my boots, I realized the barn was a little worse for wear than I had thought. A few miles up the river was a part of town that was known as Milton Falls, which would be the area around present day Main Street. Youd begin your day along route 9 where a hotel, gift shop and Skyline Restaurant were, and ride a rope tow to the practice slope, but intermediate or expert level skiers would have to transport over to a different face of the mountain to access the main T-Bar and more advanced trails. As a kid in 1960s Milton, he used to play with his buddies down near the river, and he recalled seeing a cave like opening set back in the cliffs near the dam. Yes, there are! With the windows down and the wet Spring perfume coming through, I found myself passing by an abandoned farm, and next door, a rundown ranch house where the owning family still dwelled. The northernmost was the Pike Hill mine in biblically named Corinth the old name said to be chosen because of its establishment and reputation, so any new settlers would get the idea that the wilds up that way would be accommodating and amiable to them. So here you go; a whole bunch of photos of the old Green Mountain Racetrack! But I wouldnt take that one fortunate opportunity for granted. Later, the pieces would be put together and it appeared that local boys had been kidnapping and killing their canine victims. And remember before visiting abandoned places to make sure you are being safe and responsible. It worked. Why was this book concealed under the floor? Thanks for letting me know. In 1881, Smith Ely sold his shares in the mind to Ely-Goddard and the newly in the picture Francis Cazin, a German engineer who planned on saving the mine by profusely dumping money into it. Its not uncommon to find relics from a different Vermont left to disintegrate below the trees. Many believe this old dormitory is haunted, but it's still completely in use and most students don't think twice about it. Vermont is home to restaurants that were founded in the 18th century during the founding years of the republic, 19th-century townhouses, general stores, covered bridges, and old towns that have stood the test of time. Makes me sick to my stomach to think about all that has been lost that we dont know about. So a few Springfieldians schemed up a hook to lure people and investment. 6 abandoned mansions that were once owned by Hollywood stars. They set up their materials near one of the old dynamite shacks but were requested not to go snooping around the existing building, and there was a guy from the miners union posted on site as they worked to make sure there was no tomfoolery. The tired mandecided to take shelter in a cavernous recess in Wizards Glen. And to prove this, I had spoken with a few Main Street residents who had never even heard the story of the tunnel, but all assured me the only way into their homes were through the front or back doors. C. Hegeler, a zinc manufacturer. It created a sort of niche fanbase and wound up employing a lot of locals, which was a boon in a region with an economy that was becoming pretty hard-up. Afterward, we entered the jungle that has consumed the back fringes of the main building found our way down a forgotten concrete staircase that was being slowly crumbled by encroaching trees that we were constantly shielding from smacking us in our faces, inside an outbuilding that had totally fused with nature, and contorted through a broken window. With just one wrong step, you could be swept away and have nothing to hold on to save yourself. Not being able to compete or stay consistent, most of them becamefading ghosts. They ended up with three gallons of barn red, two gallons of white, and a gallon or orange which they mixed together and got hot pink, which is now emblematic. Some locals point fingers at the machine tool unions, who in the 1970s, began to row with the companies about ensuring higher wages for their employees, and would hold a few long strikes to get their point across, something that, evilly, is sadly still being fought for today. Just be safe, and cautious, have a group visit, carry safety things, and remain strong. Growing up in Vermont, your friends most likely fall into two categories. The area around the sign was pretty much an undeveloped light wilderness area, and I knew that we had already crossed the Woodford/Wilmington town line. Towards the latter half of the 20th century, the railroad industry indignantly stepped back into a darker corner of civic and popular culture, and the massive campuswas now useless. The house and the family have a long history of strange and spooky behavior, full of ghosts, haunted rooms, and a terrifying family history. If so, what was it used for? Having a bummer of an experience a few years ago at another abandoned hotel in this town when I waschased away by a very disgruntled woman who power walked out her front door withfour dogs on a leash and howled at us a reminder of how we were trespassing, I was really hoping for a good experience this time around. The ramshackle structure was worth the potential threat of tetanus. A Facebookcommenter who knew that I was attempting to get to the bottom of this sent me a message and shared a personal account with me. Some even professed that these waters were the equivalent to the fountain of youth. Over the last century, that proportion has directly reversed, and now 3/4 of the state is back to being forested, and we now have more humans than cows though Im still heckled about that by flatlanders.
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