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Ghost Store: 1937

December 1937. "Abandoned store in Chaneysville, Pennsylvania, once a prosperous mining town." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1937. "Abandoned store in Chaneysville, Pennsylvania, once a prosperous mining town." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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There is an interesting novel set here.

Called "The Chaneysville Incident"

Actually quite underrated, it deals with a black historian uncovering the African-American experience in 19th and 20th century America.

Chaneysville is a stone's throw from the Mason-Dixon line.

I wondered the same thing.

I don't know if it could have stood for almost another century considering the condition it was in back in 1937

The location in 2009

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