pictures from Woolen Mills
Oct. 6th, 2003 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rootofnewtSo, last Thursday, we went down to the ruins of an old textile mill on the Rivanna. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiane and nothingoth brought real cameras, I had my point and click, briskpepper brought his sense of humor. ;)
It was late afternoon by the time we arrived, so the light was less than perfect, which resulted in some interesting pictures.
To access the mill, we had to walk from near the old coal-fired power plant up to the railroad bed. We snapped a few pictures of the plant before continuing on our way. We followed the railroad across Moore's Creek, where we had an excellent view of the old dam on the Rivanna. We continued on until we approached the ruins of the old mill.
The ground floor of the mill is broken in places, but is fairly intact--with trees growing up through the skeleton of iron roof girders. The floor is littered with the ceiling, leaves, and other detritus. The lower floor is accessible via some ancient stairs--some of which are dubious--and via river level knocked-out walls. There's a lot of graffiti and trash and debris scattered about. The outer walls are mostly rubble--about three remain with some ability to stand upright.
The smokestack stands and we were able to climb up into it, through the side walls. It's about five feet off the ground, up a wall with small footholds. I scrambled up quickly, but I'm short and compact. Stu and I pose with Chad's camera bag. Chad was willing to hop on down into the stack itself (about another four foot drop) to snap some pictures. I thought that might make a pretty cool picture with or without the flash.
The graffiti was really pretty interesting. I took lots of pictures of it. Chad was fond of this one, in particular. I also tooks lots of pictures of Chad and Chris taking pictures. I also liked the shadows.
I hope everyone has their shots, because there's a lot of rusty metal laying about. I wandered off into the woods downriver. I found the remnants of the water sluice, as well as foundations for some kind of machinery or other. I didn't really walk all that far away, but the woods obscures this mill quite easily. Up close, the name can be read more easily. The other side of the mill has the rest of the name: C. and A. RY. I need to visit the library and figure out if this was definitely a textile mill or not. RY usually denotes Railway. The Chesapeake and Albemarle, however, didn't come up this far. I'll hunt around for more information.
Anyhow, it was fun. I suspect we'll visit again with full daylight. That would probably make picture-taking a bit more effective.
xiane and nothingoth brought real cameras, I had my point and click, briskpepper brought his sense of humor. ;)It was late afternoon by the time we arrived, so the light was less than perfect, which resulted in some interesting pictures.
To access the mill, we had to walk from near the old coal-fired power plant up to the railroad bed. We snapped a few pictures of the plant before continuing on our way. We followed the railroad across Moore's Creek, where we had an excellent view of the old dam on the Rivanna. We continued on until we approached the ruins of the old mill.
The ground floor of the mill is broken in places, but is fairly intact--with trees growing up through the skeleton of iron roof girders. The floor is littered with the ceiling, leaves, and other detritus. The lower floor is accessible via some ancient stairs--some of which are dubious--and via river level knocked-out walls. There's a lot of graffiti and trash and debris scattered about. The outer walls are mostly rubble--about three remain with some ability to stand upright.
The smokestack stands and we were able to climb up into it, through the side walls. It's about five feet off the ground, up a wall with small footholds. I scrambled up quickly, but I'm short and compact. Stu and I pose with Chad's camera bag. Chad was willing to hop on down into the stack itself (about another four foot drop) to snap some pictures. I thought that might make a pretty cool picture with or without the flash.
The graffiti was really pretty interesting. I took lots of pictures of it. Chad was fond of this one, in particular. I also tooks lots of pictures of Chad and Chris taking pictures. I also liked the shadows.
I hope everyone has their shots, because there's a lot of rusty metal laying about. I wandered off into the woods downriver. I found the remnants of the water sluice, as well as foundations for some kind of machinery or other. I didn't really walk all that far away, but the woods obscures this mill quite easily. Up close, the name can be read more easily. The other side of the mill has the rest of the name: C. and A. RY. I need to visit the library and figure out if this was definitely a textile mill or not. RY usually denotes Railway. The Chesapeake and Albemarle, however, didn't come up this far. I'll hunt around for more information.
Anyhow, it was fun. I suspect we'll visit again with full daylight. That would probably make picture-taking a bit more effective.
