Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Factory

An abandoned building north of Eaton Rapids. Photo taken 9/30/2014. More information .

On This Date : Photo taken 12/30/2006 On the next-to-last day of 2006 Joan and I decided to find and explore Eaton County's Lincoln Brick Park , on the northern edge of Grand Ledge. We found ruins, and trees, and the Grand River, and trails. A swimming hole, too. It's an excellent park with truly great scenery. But the park's heart's the ruins. These days the park's rather more developed than it was in 2006. But it's still a place with interesting ruins. ========== Rather oddly, neither the Eaton County nor the Pure Michigan pages about the park mention the ruins. Which seems to miss the point. Number of pix taken on various December 30ths: 360 Year of oldest photo : 2006 How I Rated the Date's Photographs : . 1 Star: 4 . 2 Stars: 35 . 3 Stars: 237 . 4 Stars: 71 . 5 Stars: 12

A frozen-over Lake Michigan in the background.

Riverwalk Apartments, Grand Ledge, Michigan. The building was originally built by the Grand Ledge Chair Company in 1906.

Downtown Mulliken on the left.

Lincoln Brick Park, Grand Ledge, Michigan. An abandoned brick factory.

An enormous, sprawling, disorderly building in northern Minnesota's wilderness. At the Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken last August during the annual convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Thomas Edison's Menlo Park invention factory, as reestablished at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Taken in the autumn of 1988. There's something about Greenfield Village. For those of us who live near Dearborn, it's a special place; a slice of history as captured by Henry Ford and as interpreted by his successors. But I've friends in Dayton who consider the Wright Cycle Shop to be a stolen artifact, and I suspect there are folks in New Jersey with similar opinions about these buildings. ============= Sorry 'bout the horribly dirty slide. I may work this one over again one of these days.