The Rockland Tunnel

Olar Along Route 321, a spur of 301 in South Carolina, south of the little Scandinavian-themed towns of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, lies the little ghost town of Olar. While Olar still boasts a population of 237 people, its “downtown” section is virtually deserted. But this little southern town located along what is historically known…

Just a few miles from the Jamison’s Corners church is this old bus sitting in the middle of the woods. It sits just along the property line of Oil Creek State Park, in northwestern Pennsylvania. Oil Creek State Park is more famous for its dozens of vanished oil boom towns, but in more recent years,…

Way off the beaten path in Venango County, Pennsylvania, off State Route 322, down Rockland Road, and along Rockland Station Road, lies this old forgotten iron furnace. During the 1830s, northwestern Pennsylvania, and Venango County in particular, was in a bit of an iron boom. The three ingredients necessary for the production of pig iron,…

During the peak of the world’s first oil boom, in 1876, the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio built this prefab bowstring truss bridge over Pine Creek in East Titusville, Pennsylvania. At a length of 103 feet and a width of 14.8 feet, the Messerall Road Bridge played a key role in the transportation…

The purpose of this photoblog is to showcase many of the long-lost, forgotten gems along our older highways, and some of the gems that are slightly off the beaten path. I’ll include just about anything that fascinates me, but you can expect lots of subjects that reflect a colorful, nostalgic, or otherwise interesting history.