All,
Recently, when visiting the remains of the building you can see from the road at Deep Run with Ted Gordon, we inspected these three RR ties sticking up out of the ground. I am calling them RR ties because they look like them to me.
Later, Ted informed me he felt they were the remains of a Windmill that years before he had been told was there. So this morning Jessica and I headed there to look them over again and also visit three location further in the woods behind the ruins that I noticed in the 1951 aerial on HistoricAerials.com. Here are the three locations.
Location #1 was the most promising because the aerial shows that there absolutely was something there in 1951. A good guess would be some sort of hunting facility.
We arrived there to find an empty field but I did find a hole that I would guess was the location of the outhouse. I asked Jessica to stand in the hole for this photo, and then I told her at one time it was full of crap
The second location was nothing special but unfortunately the road ended there and we had to bushwhack. There was a road there at one time and this photo confirms what the aerial shows. Look closely for the road.
Upon arriving at location #3 we again found an empty field. It was hard work getting there and back.
We then returned to Deep Run and noticed there was another location with these same ties and this one had a concrete and brick base. This may have been another windmill location. In both locations only three of the ties remain for some reason.
That huge building shown in the 1951 aerial at Deep Run was right across the road in this photo. I found one board there which may have been from it.
Guy
Recently, when visiting the remains of the building you can see from the road at Deep Run with Ted Gordon, we inspected these three RR ties sticking up out of the ground. I am calling them RR ties because they look like them to me.
Later, Ted informed me he felt they were the remains of a Windmill that years before he had been told was there. So this morning Jessica and I headed there to look them over again and also visit three location further in the woods behind the ruins that I noticed in the 1951 aerial on HistoricAerials.com. Here are the three locations.
Location #1 was the most promising because the aerial shows that there absolutely was something there in 1951. A good guess would be some sort of hunting facility.
We arrived there to find an empty field but I did find a hole that I would guess was the location of the outhouse. I asked Jessica to stand in the hole for this photo, and then I told her at one time it was full of crap
The second location was nothing special but unfortunately the road ended there and we had to bushwhack. There was a road there at one time and this photo confirms what the aerial shows. Look closely for the road.
Upon arriving at location #3 we again found an empty field. It was hard work getting there and back.
We then returned to Deep Run and noticed there was another location with these same ties and this one had a concrete and brick base. This may have been another windmill location. In both locations only three of the ties remain for some reason.
That huge building shown in the 1951 aerial at Deep Run was right across the road in this photo. I found one board there which may have been from it.
Guy
