Unidentified Abandoned Building

[Kit]

those are from the assessors office i didnt take them.

I did find where it was tied up in a lawsuit that looked very nasty for awhile.

[cobcob]

They've just got done putting a cell tower in the woods beside that building... near the old watertower

[Lyrik]

I grew up pretty close to that, in Strafford. I'm pretty sure it is related to farm-industry. I know there's an emu farm a little further down (across the street, I believe), and the noises from there can be pretty scary if you don't know what they are. lol

I know that for years and years, all the graduating classes used to tag that watertower, but I've never been up there.

-Krykt

[paul06660]

Thats just right up the road from the now closed Highway 125 James River Access. Man I miss that river access. Used to be able to hike back there a ways up the river and have a cool campfire. And man it flooded like hell last March. Almost all the way to the bridge deck.

[crazydrummerdude]

The white door on the right of the larger building has a new green aluminum door and the lot is still mowed. They probably just store junk in there, but I wouldn't mind going in.

The water tower next to it looks pretty cool. I might have to snoop around there and climb it some time.

[horrorshow chelloveck]

So, still no entrances found yet?

[slow_walker]

It's not a matter of finding entrances, it's because the building is an an open, very well-mowed lot between a house and a busy road. It's not hidden at all. No sneaking would be possible.

[crazydrummerdude]

I don't think it'd be difficult at all to get inside either building.

Go for it.

It's on 125 (I think) just a few miles south of 44.

[horrorshow chelloveck]

In broad daylight, probably not. Possibly at night, but considering the size and assuming that there's probably nothing of much interest there, I don't know if it would be worth it. To me, the water tower sounds more interesting.

[Willard]

The place looks simi-active. I don't recommend exploring unless it's compleatly abandoned.

[crazydrummerdude]

No reason not to. If I lived closer to it, I'd have posted pics of an exploration and this thread would be dead.

[Ordog]

This was a pumping station. It was built sturdy to withstand a blast, either from the pipeline or war. There used to be a pipeline that ran somewhere... I can't recall at the moment I think Oklahoma City area to Ft Wood. Every so often is one of these stations; by the fort, right off of a county trunk highway there's giant storage tanks and another one of these buildings. I always meant to find out how many of these things there were along the pipeline, never got around to it. I am told there is one by Chesapeake.

Anyway, the oil company cleaned these up (oil company still owns the land to the north, I think, with the water tower on it, and I think it still isn't considered "clean"), the buildings at least. There were giant pumps in them, that were removed and the holes cemented in. The buildings were sold for a song.

The owner of this building is acting on instructions from God, and God doesn't want him to sell it or do anything with it it seems. Just a note of warning there....

Sad to see it going to waste.

[Kit]

it looks like the owner went through some crap getting it so perhaps he is still a little weary or bitter.

[lolabelle]

Hey Slow, I happened across your mystery building today on the internet. Like Ordog said, it's an olding pumping station. In fact, it's the Gulf Pumping Station.

Here's the website.

Here's a pic from that site.

[slow_walker]

Oh cool. Thanks Lola. You're da bomb.