The Old Collins Co.

[stoneylonesome]

The Collins Co. was a manufacturer of sharped edge tools, mainly Axes and Machettes.
the Company started in 1826 and ceased production here in 1966, moved everything to Central America.

The Stone Building
http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3078/40factory5.jpg

one end of the building
http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3078/40factory9-med.jpg

[marie]

lovely old brickwork in the photo's Sandy


love the windows


lizzie bordon must have got the axe herehttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif
before they moved south.

don't hit mehttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif

[stoneylonesome]

lovely old brickwork in the photo's Sandy


love the windows


lizzie bordon must have got the axe herehttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif
before they moved south.

don't hit mehttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/santa/icon_lol.gif

Thanks Marie yes that building is something else it is HUGE and the windows are 7' or 8' tall (2m or 2.5m)
Don't know about Lizzie Borden getting her axe here, but John Brown the abolitionist, before our Civil War got his pike here that he used to break into the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[OneManArmy]

The Collins Co. was a manufacturer of sharped edge tools, mainly Axes and Machettes.
the Company started in 1826 and ceased production here in 1966, moved everything to Central America.
...leaving ruin behind. I've seen similar things in Detroit in areas that once were booming but now are wasteland thanks to sending jobs overseas.

I wonder what the equivilent will be from sending all these white collar jobs overseas.

[OviV]

Cool pictures. Is the building used at all now a days?

[stoneylonesome]

Cool pictures. Is the building used at all now a days?

A few of the buildings are used today, there is some restortation work being done, long and expensive, Just to the right of the large stone building, in the brick part. is a Landscape Architects office, further on in the complex is a timber framing business, a 3 man machine shop, some artist studios and one of the larger brick factory buildings nearer the main road houses 2 floors of antiques and collectables dealers, but there are many more buildings unoccupied. Everyone has big plans for the place, but them a little thing called money brings them back to reality :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[jgbeam]

My neighborhood! Nice shots of the stone building, stoneylonesome.

Here's another:

http://img1.imagevenue.com/loc46/dced4_IW6I0070web.jpg

And a detail at the west end of the building.

http://img1.imagevenue.com/loc52/89ebf_IW6I0078web.jpg

Jim

[stoneylonesome]

Jim; Have you ever been up on the 2nd floor of the Canton Historical Museum and gone in the train room? Here is a photo of an H.O. Model of the stone building that I built a couple of years ago. The train layout that the club maintains for the museum is pretty accurate to the period of around 1902

http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3078/4002280012.JPG

Hate to tell you how long this thing took me to build :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[thomascanty]

Nice looking model, Sandy! The original building looks pretty cool, too.

[stoneylonesome]

Nice looking model, Sandy! The original building looks pretty cool, too.

Thanks lonnie, Supposedly that is one of the few last remaining stone factory buildings of that size and type (built around 1860-70s) still surviving unchanged in the country. it's pretty impressive when you get up close to it.

[jgbeam]

Jim; Have you ever been up on the 2nd floor of the Canton Historical Museum and gone in the train room? Here is a photo of an H.O. Model of the stone building that I built a couple of years ago. The train layout that the club maintains for the museum is pretty accurate to the period of around 1902

http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3078/4002280012.JPG

Hate to tell you how long this thing took me to build :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

That's a real nice looking model. I haven't been up in the train room in years so I don't think I've seen it. I'll have to get up there and check out the current layout.

Jim

[stoneylonesome]

"That's a real nice looking model. I haven't been up in the train room in years so I don't think I've seen it. I'll have to get up there and check out the current layout.

Jim"

The train club meets every Thursday night even when the Museum is closed so you can always stop up them and just go into the train room.

[gtg]

great captures sandy... i like them... a very good composition of a good subject

[stoneylonesome]

Thank you GTG, there is so much to photograph around that old factory you could spend an entire day there. :lol: