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Lonaconing Silk Mill

Photoshoot in this old factory nestled in the hills of the Maryland panhandle.
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  • Office Door

    Office Door

  • Dixie's Office

    Dixie's Office

  • Brick Wall with Windows

    Brick Wall with Windows

    The building has three floors and they were farther apart than those windows would indicate.

  • Broken Glass

    Broken Glass

    A lot of that around here.

  • Rusty Machine

    Rusty Machine

    No idea how it was originally used.

  • Camera Gear

    Camera Gear

    Some in the group came with serious gear.

  • Rusty Wheel

    Rusty Wheel

    I just love the texture of rusty iron/steel parts.

  • Corner Windows

    Corner Windows

  • Photographer

    Photographer

  • Open Roof

    Open Roof

    The building had many unintended openings to the outside.

  • Peeling Brick

    Peeling Brick

  • Open Room

    Open Room

    Half of the second floor, filled with machinery.

  • Row After Row

    Row After Row

  • Spools

    Spools

  • Bathroom Sign

    Bathroom Sign

    Something like this makes you wonder about the overall working conditions in the plant.

  • Furnace

    Furnace

  • Broom

    Broom

  • Stack

    Stack

  • Oil Cans

    Oil Cans

    I have no idea why these were hanging at the top of the elevator shaft.

  • Clock on the Wall

    Clock on the Wall

  • Flags

    Flags

    Flying over the town baseball "stadium".

  • Lloyd's Radio

    Lloyd's Radio

  • Look to DuPont

    Look to DuPont

    At the start of World War II, the factory switched from silk to making Nylon thread. Some bundles of the raw materials remain in storage.

  • Patented

    Patented

    Some kind of locked storage.

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