BillsPics' photos with the keyword: historic site

Part of the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial in Princeton, IL.

The old Forest Grove Schoolhouse had been closed in the 1950's and pretty much abandoned for nearly 40 years. On the brink of collapse, a fundraising campaign was started to save and restore the historic old school. Ten years later,the result of those efforts is pretty stunning....

The last filling station in the ghost town of Vulture City, AZ.

Forgotten piano now on display at Vulture City ghost town in Arizona.

Part of the lab at the Vulture City assay office. The mines around Vulture City contributed to the biggest gold rush in the Arizona territory....

One of the rusty survivors from the better times at Vulture City. Gold was discovered in 1863,the town boomed in the 1880's with over 5000 people living in the isolated area. The gold from the area helped fuel the growth of Phoenix...

Vulture City boomed in the late 1870's. with the discovery of gold. By the 1890's,it was on the decline but was worked until World War Two. The isolated town, which once had a population of nearly 5000,was then abandoned. In recent years, much of the remaining structures have been stabilized and lovingly restored and the old mine is being worked again.... Vulture City is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This old one room schoolhouse was closed in the 1950's and pretty much abandoned shortly after. A few years back a local restoration group was formed, and slowly restored the nearly collapsed structure. This is the fine result, opened earlier this year...

Part of the first set of trenches General Washington used on his siege of the British at Yorktown during the Revolutionary War.

The Norwegian Lady Statue in Virginia Beach,VA. is said to watch for sailors in trouble and guide them to safe harbor. In Moss,Norway, the same Statue guides her sailors on that side of the sea...

Remaining foundations for several of the old blast furnaces at the Old Joliet Iron Works site in Illinois. The Works operated till 1936,part of the US Steel Plant in the suburb of Chicago. It was,for a time ,the second largest steel plant in the US.The steel side of the plant closed in 1981. The Iron Works side of the plant was taken over by the city and into a great city park. The steel plant remains, mostly abandoned....

A shot of the administration building at the former Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois. The prison's unique architecture was drawn up by WW Boyington,designer of Chicago's famed Water Tower.It was built by contractors using prison labor in 1858. It closed in 2002. Sadly this building cannot be entered anymore due to extreme interior collapse....

The chapel at the closed and formerly abandoned Old Joliet Prison. Joliet was the site of Illinois's first state prison, opened in 1858. It house female inmates till a separate women's prison was built next door in 1896. The prison was distinct for its exterior Gothic design elements. The cells didn't have separate plumbing till a 1950's remodel! The prison was closed in 2002,and basically abandoned by the state except for 2004-5 when the TV drama "Prison Break " filmed its first season there. The city finally took possession in 2017 and opened parts of the badly decayed and vandalized prison for public tours....

Historic stone church and school in the tiny village of Canton,IA. Church closed in the 1960's as the rural congregation dwindled and is now a state historical site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places...