SLIDESHOW: Midco, past and present
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Midco’s once mighty industrial center is today a ruin with tangled vines and mossy, lichen-covered walls.
Paul Turley is buried overlooking the Midco smokestack and ruins his family purchased in the 1950s. His descendants still live on the former company’s grounds and have re-marked the abandoned town’s cemetery.
Midco’s century-old abandoned smokestack is still the tallest structure in Carter County and its surrounding neighbors.
- Andrew Sheeley
A masonic triangle can still be seen decorating the top of the Midco smokestack.
In its glory years Midco was a thriving boom town and the largest city in Carter County. It was abandoned less than three years after being devastated by the 1918 Spanish Influenza.
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Midco as seen when its industrial facilities were still in operation.
Midco as seen when its industrial facilities were still in operation.
Midco as seen when its industrial facilities were still in operation.
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