A pair of ruins...
Sep. 1st, 2003 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edg...on Glencoe Rd., in Sparks, MD. Both shot today (Sept. 1, 2003) in the late afternoon, between 5 and 6 PM. The second set of photographs in particular has been adjusted for brightness and contrast.
As I don't really know anything about either site, I'll let the photographs speak mostly for themselves.
This was a power or telephone routing box - I'm not sure which. It stands just next to the North County Railroad Hike/Bike Trail, which itself is built on the destroyed North County Railroad. My guess is that the box was eight to ten feet tall from the ground to the top.
I don't know what the concrete box is.
A few hundred feet up the road, away from the river next to the trail - maybe not even that far - lie the ruins of what I presume to be a colony-era house. Only the stone walls remain, and only parts of those, no doubt at least in part because the building appears to have been built flush with the road itself. (This feature leads me to believe that it may have been something other than a house, but I can't be sure without further research.) While I believe that the land on which the house sits is owned by old friends of my family, I am not entirely sure, and I didn't want to risk interrupting a Labor Day party in order to find out.
At a guess, the house measured fifteen by twenty-five feet, although I may be off by up to ten feet in either dimension or both. Although the remains of several walls are still present, it would take much more time than I had available to determine a floor plan; the only room I know for certain is in the rear left corner, for which a doorway, walls, and most of a window are still extant.
As mentioned above, these photographs were taken in the late afternoon and are resultingly dark in the original; I have altered the brightness and contrast to make them easier to view.
As I don't really know anything about either site, I'll let the photographs speak mostly for themselves.
This was a power or telephone routing box - I'm not sure which. It stands just next to the North County Railroad Hike/Bike Trail, which itself is built on the destroyed North County Railroad. My guess is that the box was eight to ten feet tall from the ground to the top.
I don't know what the concrete box is.
The view from the trail.  |
Closer in.  |
The rear of the box. The right-hand rear door has come off, and been placed on the ground in front of the box.  |
A few hundred feet up the road, away from the river next to the trail - maybe not even that far - lie the ruins of what I presume to be a colony-era house. Only the stone walls remain, and only parts of those, no doubt at least in part because the building appears to have been built flush with the road itself. (This feature leads me to believe that it may have been something other than a house, but I can't be sure without further research.) While I believe that the land on which the house sits is owned by old friends of my family, I am not entirely sure, and I didn't want to risk interrupting a Labor Day party in order to find out.
At a guess, the house measured fifteen by twenty-five feet, although I may be off by up to ten feet in either dimension or both. Although the remains of several walls are still present, it would take much more time than I had available to determine a floor plan; the only room I know for certain is in the rear left corner, for which a doorway, walls, and most of a window are still extant.
As mentioned above, these photographs were taken in the late afternoon and are resultingly dark in the original; I have altered the brightness and contrast to make them easier to view.
The view from the road. Look carefully and you can see the walls in the back and to the left.  |
The left rear corner. Yes, there's a big tree in the way.  |
The rear right corner. Many trees have fallen in or grown up in the ruin since it collapsed. Note the remains of a window, five or six feet above the ground.  |
The rear right corner, again. Shot vertically to demonstrate the height of the remaining wall. This was almost certainly a two-story building.  |
The rear-left doorway. Again, a tree is in the way, but the doorway is clearly visible.  |
The left-hand wall. The remaining wall follows the hillside down; I'm not sure whether this indicates that the house was built into the hill (likely) or that the hill was built around the house (unlikely). Note the "orb" in this picture. Spoooooooky. Really. Lots of "ghost pictures" websites will tell you it is. (It's really just water vapor or dust caught by the flash.)  |
The rear left corner, yet again. (For some reason, this corner fascinated me while I was shooting it.)  |
