These photos are haunting. Even so..even though the county home was considered a place of abondonment..it WAS a place for the displaced. A place so the aged were not left in the street. Something to ponder
These photos are haunting. Even so..even though the county home was considered a place of abondonment..it WAS a place for the displaced. A place so the aged were not left in the street. Something to ponder
These photographs were taken two years ago. They showed the current status of the three main buildings there. They are even in worse shape today. Although I hate to see these buildings forever gone I realize that it is time for them to be torn down.They have stood long after the people had moved out as a reminder of who lived here. That is what I have hoped to convey with these four stories these last few months. These were amazing people and not many knew a whole lot about them.I sure hope that after reading about them you came away with the same respect I have.
Growing up nearby in the 1950’s, I recall clearly the residents (inmates) of these of these old buildings sitting out on the balcony in the summertime. Their greetings to a boy riding by on his bicycle were of the unrepeatable kind, in those days it was called the “County Home”. The buildings were in bad shape even then. And were firetraps - it’s a wonder they didn’t burn. But Columbiana County, on the edge of Appalachia, was a financially poor place itself in those days. This was years before construction of the prison at Elton and it’s injection of federal taxpayers’ money into the local economy. However, in the 1850’s, a state inspection commented in the “exceptionally fine” (or words to that effect) character of the buildings. Times change.
These photos are haunting. Even so..even though the county home was considered a place of abondonment..it WAS a place for the displaced.
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Something to ponder
These photos are haunting. Even so..even though the county home was considered a place of abondonment..it WAS a place for the displaced.
ReplyDeleteA place so the aged were not left in the street.
Something to ponder
These photographs were taken two years ago. They showed the current status of the three main buildings there. They are even in worse shape today. Although I hate to see these buildings forever gone I realize that it is time for them to be torn down.They have stood long after the people had moved out as a reminder of who lived here. That is what I have hoped to convey with these four stories these last few months. These were amazing people and not many knew a whole lot about them.I sure hope that after reading about them you came away with the same respect I have.
DeleteGrowing up nearby in the 1950’s, I recall clearly the residents (inmates) of these of these old buildings sitting out on the balcony in the summertime. Their greetings to a boy riding by on his bicycle were of the unrepeatable kind, in those days it was called the “County Home”. The buildings were in bad shape even then. And were firetraps - it’s a wonder they didn’t burn. But Columbiana County, on the edge of Appalachia, was a financially poor place itself in those days. This was years before construction of the prison at Elton and it’s injection of federal taxpayers’ money into the local economy. However, in the 1850’s, a state inspection commented in the “exceptionally fine” (or words to that effect) character of the buildings. Times change.
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