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Lorton Prison : With gas @ $4 a gallon, and an extremely thirsty, yet trusty SUV, I've drastically curtailed my wanderings to far flung locations to satisfy my obsession with the rotting and forgotten. So, it was a gorgeous August day, and the Voice said, "Well ya know, you have something quite interesting just down the road from you in Lorton - Lorton Prison." So I discovered what looked like a perfect back door into it, and amazingly just waltzed my azz on in. The following images are from a number of locations that were the Lorton Complex, including an abandoned farm the inmates used to work. It was a very intense experience to photograph the locations due to the history of the prison, and the obvious residual energy that remains soaked into the walls. Most of the images are from the Power Plant, an UrbEx slice of heaven. A personally disturbing fact to me is the opening this September of the Max Security buildings (third to last pic in the gallery) as an ARTISTs space. There are such, how do I put this, residual energy problems here that I wouldn't even CONSIDER having a workspace here. Thank GOD they didn't go with the original plan of making the same spaces into condos! So, all that said, please enjoy what most probably are the last illicitly photographed images of what once was one of the most notorious prisons in the US.

Lorton Prison

theskewedeye

With gas @ $4 a gallon, and an extremely thirsty, yet trusty SUV, I've ...

Updated: Dec 17, 2008 6:27pm PST

Abandoned Buildings : These pictures are of the former Dice's Tire Shop, house, and pool, now abandoned waiting to be demolished to make way for a Home Depot.

Abandoned Buildings

ericseyes

These pictures are of the former Dice's Tire Shop, house, and pool, no ...

Updated: Sep 13, 2008 7:09am PST

Route 30 West : I felllllt it. Took one look, and "knew". Route 30 West in Pennsylvania, west of Gettysburg. Some strange area, der hon. So thick with "odd" it seems to hang in the air. These are some of the images taken on the Exploration.

Route 30 West

theskewedeye

I felllllt it. Took one look, and "knew". Route 30 West in Pennsylvani ...

Updated: Feb 16, 2008 10:29am PST

Longhorn Quarry : The Longhorn Quarry, on the northeast side of San Antonio, has been shut down for years. The one rumor I've heard is that it was closed in the 80's for not correcting serious safety violations.

Longhorn Quarry

Brandon Lingle

The Longhorn Quarry, on the northeast side of San Antonio, has been sh ...

Updated: May 18, 2007 9:48am PST

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