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Can only be accessed by way of a long, narrow, backwoods dirt road in rural Arkansas.  

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Howdy, Y’all !!!!   

This particular blog is sort of a chronicle of our adventures and explores when we were living in Tennessee.   We’ve moved back home to Texas, and now we’re posting photos from our travels on our new blog here on Tumblr.

Check it out at:     tourintexas     

Hope to see you there!      

Moose and Navigator 

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Broken glass and shattered dreams.......   

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The abandoned Kateland Gin Company near Colfax, La., was incorporated on September 12, 1957.   After 27 years of service to the farmers of the community, it was finally closed down in 1984.   The gin equipment’s all been removed, and all that’s left is the shell of the building.  It’s a shame that it’s located in such a small town; because if it was someplace like Dallas this could be turned into an awesome restaurant, wedding venue, or some other such attraction. 

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J.C. Clegg called it the “J & J Grocery” when he had the place way back when.   Today the abandoned store near New Potter, Arkansas, is just used as a popular photo-spot by tourists, and by local photographers shooting prom and wedding pictures.   A local tells us that he moved there in 1980, and it was already long-abandoned even back then.   It sits right along the railroad tracks, which would have made it handy for doing business when it was still open.  

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Every so often, as you explore the countryside, you come across one of those old bridges that makes you stop and ask yourself “Should I, or shouldn’t I?”   The County Road 38 bridge over the Mountain Fork River, in Arkansas, is one of those.  It’s a one lane, two span, pony-truss bridge that was built in 1905.  I’m not sure if I really heard the old bridge creaking and groaning as we drove over it in our heavily loaded van, or if that was just my imagination......  

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Recently, Navigator and I jumped on our trike and headed over to Shreveport, Louisiana, with some friends to attend an event there.   Navigator was trying out her new I-phone by shooting the scenery (as usual) while we rode.  She got some nice shots, especially from the back of a moving trike while riding in the freezing cold......

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Aren’t we all...... ?    

“.....The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.....”

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“Murray Gins, Better Sample And Turnout”  

The gin manufacturer’s trademark still adorns the abandoned Kateland Gin Company’s building near Colfax, La. 

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It’s sad to see some family’s hopes and dreams end up like this.  Now they’re being swallowed up by the Arkansas backwoods.  This one’s very, very moldy and it smelled ....... horrible. 

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Mary Allen Seminary in Crockett, Texas, was built in 1886; and at that time it was the only school opened to the State’s freed black women.  After her death in 1887, the college was named after Mary Allen, who was the wife of the school’s founder, Pastor Richard Allen.   The college was closed in 1943 after making an unsuccessful attempt to become a state college.  About a year later, it was reopened by the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America, who accepted male students as well as women.  At one point, the college had a 12 building campus on 260 acres of land.  It was finally closed in 1972. 

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Still pretty, even at the end of December...... 

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Disaster struck as the collapsed bridge in the foreground was being constructed across the Mountain Fork Little River near Potter, Arkansas..   A flood came along and collapsed the piers before the bridge was finished.   The cement block laying flat in the water in the top photo, and the leaning block in the lower photo are what now remains of the collapsed piers.  Rather than continue with the taller bridge after the flood; a “low water” bridge was built just past it, the remains of which can be seen in the top photo.  In 1979, another bridge was built along CR 48 to replace the now abandoned low water bridge, which is where we stood to take these shots.  We weren’t about to walk down to the old bridges because we were traveling and we hadn’t brought our snake boots.  This area is notorious for water moccasins. 

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This abandoned little store is in Chapel Hill, Texas.  The sign’s so weathered that we couldn’t tell if the store was Fuller’s, or possibly Fidler’s, Country Grocery.  Chapel Hill’s mostly gone now, but it was a thriving community from the middle 1800′s until the 1940′s when most of the residents left during WWII to join the war effort.  The beautiful church adjacent to the store was closed in the 1990′s; but, there was nothing to indicate when the store was finally closed. 

Local residents sure do keep a close watch on the place.   We had 3 or 4 vehicles come by and really slow down to check us out as we were taking photos.   One even pulled up and stopped, but we exchanged waves and they left after they saw the cameras.  

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An abandoned 18 wheeler van near Simpsonville, Texas.  

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The abandoned Libbey glassware factory in Shreveport, Louisiana, was one of the largest tableware manufacturers in the world.   It was closed on December 31, 2020, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.   They’d been in business in Shreveport for 98 years, 47 of which were at this location.   Sadly, Covid-19 was largely responsible for the plant’s closing.  Approximately 450 workers lost their jobs. 

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