A North Carolina Miscellany

Abandoned NC started out in 2003 as a way to display photos of abandoned buildings from “urban exploring” around North Carolina.
Today you’ll also find folklore, history articles, collected ephemera, and anything else from the Old North State that piques my interest.

The 82nd Airborne In The First Gulf War

Something a little different from the rest of my content today. I’ve been working on a “sub-site” within my main website devoted to information about the 82nd’s “Ready Brigade” in…

Mammoth Mart

Digging up the bones of the old Mammoth Mart, a discount retailer in Statesville NC during the 1970’s.

A Brief History of Smith Chapel

NC Highway 901 exists on paper as early as the 1930’s, but it’s history stretches back much further. If you were to look at it on a map you might…

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