Abandoned Factory - The Last Silk Mill

The mill sat unused, but secure until the 1970's, when it was privately purchased by a local resident who envisioned saving the old place for future generations. Today he is on his mid-seventies and still holds out hope for the slowing decaying mill. We have read several first-hand accounts of the mill, comparing it to a time capsule... but standing there, watching water flowing in though blackened ceiling boards, it looked more a tomb. The mill is dying, and without a new roof, there will be no hope of preservation. The elderly owner still comes to the mill regularly, taking time away from his wife who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease , to empty buckets of rain water out the third floor window. Being the last intact silk mill in the United States, it was placed on the Endangered Maryland list in 2007, but sadly no real assistance has followed. Some plastic tarping has been added as a temporary and partial solution, but without a new roof, all may finally be lost to history...


The full story can be found here -
http://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2...


Music - "Untitled 3" by Sigur Rós