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Henry River, North Carolina.
(photo by Kelly Bixby, information via treasurenet)Huddled in the hills of North Carolina there lies a ghost town named Henry River. The abandoned homes and company stores are always eerie, but there is something in the light of dusk that makes them even more so: gap-toothed windows sprout trees and slack doors open to nothing. Built in the early 1900’s around a textile mill, the town peaked fast but fell soon. In fact, it hardly made it past the 1960’s. In its time, however, Henry River was remarkable: it generated its own electricity and operated under its own currency, it ran its own school and its own church, swam in its own swimming hole and churned its own moonshine, but the community that once thrived now sits as empty as an unpaired shoe.
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