Secret Virginia

https://michaelkleen.com/2024/07/22/virginias-most-mysterious-missing-person-cases/

Virginia’s Most Mysterious Missing Person Cases It can happen in an instant–a friend or family member says goodbye and is never seen again. A paucity of clues leaves investigators scratching their heads. Days turn into weeks, months, and t…

A family-run garage and filling station sits along Highway 301, the Richmond Turnpike, in rural Caroline County, Virginia. In the 1940s, the highway ran from South Carolina to Baltimore, Maryland. I don’t know when the Penola Food Mart opened along this stretch of highway south of Bowling Green, but Google Street View shows it was active in 2008 and closed by 2012. It’s sat abandoned ever since, and the house next door’s windows are blackened by soot from a fire. This is how an oasis ends. Explore this abandoned place and more with over 200 color photographs from Virginia and all over the U.S. in my new book Fading Corners and Abandoned Images (link in the comments).