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So we're going to start out today's post with some stuff from Phoenixville and Downingtown, but afterwards we're going to head down to Edgemoor, a part of Wilmington you don't hear much about. Delaware as a whole is weird, but imagine a part of it filled with strange half-abandoned structures. The Edgemoor neighborhood was strange, but there was one shopping center that really set my impression of this place. If you wanna see that, next week's post will be devoted entirely to it. Taco Bell, Phoenixville, PA Taco Bell was originally paired with a KFC here, which closed in late 2016. The restaurant and house behind it were torn down shortly afterwards, with Taco Bell reopening on a portion of the property by mid-2017. The other half of the site is now home to a mattress store. Repurposed Bridge, Phoenixville, PA This bridge was originally used by the Phoenixville Steel Foundry, and sat abandoned for several years after the foundry closed. More recently, part ...

Welcome back, everybody! Let me preface this by saying towards the end of high school, I was really getting into distance walking, through which I discovered some abandoned farms a few miles from my house. I brought my camera along this time to photograph a few of them. Once I got to college I realized how much easier and more interesting walking was in the city, and now I've lost the motivation to walk through four miles of nothing but grass and trees  to get to this place. :P I swear I don't live in the middle of nowhere, it's only like this in one direction.   Flint Road This was a small back road that went through one of the farms. It was notoriously rough. Last summer, this part of the farm was turned into a nature conservancy to prevent it from being developed. Ironically, since one of their trailheads and main parking lot is on this road, they still had to widen and repave.  Farmhouse This farm was actually several small farms that were bought up by...