InfrastructureFaded Glory : ManufacturingHealth and Healthcare
Where the American industrial revolution began: Alexander Hamilton’s manufacturing park.
Great Falls of the Passaic River, Paterson NJ
Today’s American industrial park. A far cry from the past.
Industrial Road, Walpole, MA
From making to sleeping. Then (1725): Flour mill for the Continental Army. Now: condos.
Pottstown, PA
Take notice: manufacturing moved out.
Worcester, MA
Demolished: American manufacturing in tatters.
Fitchburg, MA
General Motors built cars here. Now, America auctions used cars here. Progress constrained by a gold chain.
Repurposed GM Assembly plant, Framingham, MA
Decommissioned: Bethlehem Steel plant then, junkyard now.
Pottstown, PA
Bethlehem Steel plant reimagined: a wastewater treatment plant.
Pottstown, PA
Coal extraction: the sun setting on America’s industrial past.
Big Rock VA
Up in smoke: old manufacturing. Transforming coal to coke and coke to steel.
Vansant, VA
Empty: coal car.
Pikesville, KY
Samsung, LG…where are the American brands?
Big-box store, Somerville, MA
Honda, Acura, VW…any American logos?
Big-box store parking lot. Waltham, MA