Cheshire, Ohio - A Modern (Corporate) Abandoned Ghost Town
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Cheshire, once a coal mining town, has a very finite life--only as long as it's current residents are alive. Suffering a similar fate as Centralia, although not nearly as public, the Blackstone and Arclight-owned town (AEP sold it and the Gavin plant in 2016, which I failed to mention in the video) features a main street filled with fields dotted in sidewalk patches from once existing homes. It's beautiful, it's polluted, it's probably for the best. With the coal consuming behemoth a few hundred yards from the center of town, it impacts nearly every aspect of life.
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A couple footnotes:
1. There are some abandoned houses waiting to be demolished in Cheshire. It didn't feel right wandering inside in front of the locals. They are wonderful people and miss their town, as well as the people who used to live in those houses.
2. In 2016 AEP sold the plant/town to Blackstone & Arclight LLCs. I did not mention this in the video. It does not change the fate of the town
3. I say CO2 is a pollutant because it is when 14 million metric tons are being released in a year (Gavin released this amount in 2019). If you'd like to leave after hearing that, I wish you the best. I try to keep this channel separate from my political views and unfortunately pollution is political. But anyway, thanks for watching
politics is literally our reality, there's no getting away from it.
I'm a union carpenter. I spent ten months working in the Gavin plant last year. Instead of aep, they now go by "light stone"
Music " everything in its right place". LOVE the documentary and the music!
I drove through Cheshire several times when I still lived in Ohio in the 60's. That was before AEP got in there and did the massive expansion to the Turkey Creek plant. I think Cheshire was near its peak of population then (around 400) and it seemed like a pleasant little town that wasn't as poor as lot of other coal towns in the area because of the good paying jobs at the plant. It was located on a high bank of the river and didn't suffer from the seasonal flooding of a lot of other river towns along the Ohio. It's unfortunate the new plant more or less drove a lot of residents out, but it sounds like they got a reasonable deal on their real estate, and there really wasn't much of a market to sell into other than AEP.
I remember reading about this town on websites in the early 2010's. It always seemed super creepy. It's cool to see it in a more positive light
Yeah I saw that too! I honestly don't feel that places like this are creepy once you understand the history
Hope you are okay this is a great channel
the greenpeace activists are what i like to call hippies
You should be the History department head an esteemed Ivy League University.
I grew up here. Thank you for the memories of how my little town disappeared. I really do appreciate such a wonderful and honest look at my hometown
I can see the steam from the plant from my bedroom window.
we used to live in delaware county
I been here
Absolutely awesome video and the music you composed for the end clips is lovely
Thank you!!
Good video! Everything in its right place.
Thanks Dave!
This place reminds me of a little town in NC up in the mountains. Its virtually empty except this huge skyscraper lookin industrial plant. At night me and an old bf would walk around town in silence and watch the smog glowing orange from the lights on the towers. You know people work there 24/7, right? But it never looked that way...
Good work! ✅
Thank you!
Damn this is so much better than the one I tried to make!
I don't know about that but thank you! New camera really helped with getting the story right
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This is a great video, brother. The town is so sparse but the vestiges of the houses with the little walk up and the concrete pads embedded in fields is so... eerie. it feels like a post apocalyptic town, pre-apocalypse, especially with how the tower is kind of always present whether it's literally visible over everything or via the low freq hum.
Hey thank you 🙏 I felt the same way, walking around I'd get distracted then turn around and ope there's a giant power plant. It's a looming constant reminder that everything there will disappear one day
Nice job! Hadn't heard from you in a while, missed your show😊
Thank you! I hope you're doing well 👍 I have been uploading a bit more the last few months you might have to click the bell because UA-cam likes to hide new videos
This video is🔥!!
Thank you!
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but what plants breathe.
Any chemical, even if naturally found in the atmosphere, is considered a “pollutant” if it’s released in levels that distort the natural ratios of chemicals that make up the atmosphere. It’s just what it’s called. Plants breathe other stuff too but if there’s too much CO2 it hurts them and us. Humans breathe oxygen but we would be poisoned if there was too much oxygen. Oxygen would then also be considered a pollutant if we were releasing too much.
First just for historical value you only call a town or community a village if you aspire to hillary clinton’s it takes a village bs.
I haven't read that book but now I'm very curious. Might go read myself a children's book today
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