Maysville community members and law enforcement officials are reflecting on the loss of Doug Culp, a retired police chief who was devoted to his community and…
Abandoned Kentucky: Gas stations, ‘Ghost Ship,’ schools, bridges and more lost to time [Lexington Herald-Leader]
Dec. 21 A three-span truss bridge that connected Garrard to Boyle County.
An 87-patient bed hospital overlooking downtown Maysville that’s been a hotbed for ghost hunters since it closed in 1983.
And a 186-foot boat, calm amid the decay as it rusts in a tributary off the Ohio River in Northern Kentucky.
Neglected and left to rot, these are some of the forgotten, deserted, old and abandoned sites that dot the landscape throughout Kentucky.
Fisher’s Travel Camp, Scott County
The ‘Ghost Ship’ of Petersburg
The Sachem, also known as the “Ghost Ship” is sitting partially submerged in a shallow tributary off of the Ohio River in Petersburg. The 186-foot boat, originally called the Celt was built in 1901 at the Pusey & Jones shipyard in Wilmington. Del. Over the decades it served as a vessel for the U.S. Navy, a laboratory for Thomas Edison, a racing yacht,
Abandoned Kentucky: Gas stations, Ghost Ship, schools, bridges and more lost to time Alex Slitz and Silas Walker, Lexington Herald-Leader
Dec. 21 A three-span truss bridge that connected Garrard to Boyle County.
An 87-patient bed hospital overlooking downtown Maysville that s been a hotbed for ghost hunters since it closed in 1983.
And a 186-foot boat, calm amid the decay as it rusts in a tributary off the Ohio River in Northern Kentucky.
Neglected and left to rot, these are some of the forgotten, deserted, old and abandoned sites that dot the landscape throughout Kentucky.
Fisher s Travel Camp, Scott County
The Ghost Ship of Petersburg