The Lost Town of Wendling, Ore.

These photos were taken late Spring, 2010.  This was one of the brief breaks in the incessant rains this year.  Wendling was a large logging town that was built up around a mill in the Mohawk valley, northeast of Marcola.  It was abandoned and demolished in the 1940's and is now a tree farm.

Oregon's own Angkor Wat . . . well, almost . . .

Luper Cemetery

Luper Cemetery is one of the older pioneer cemeteries in Oregon.  It is off of River Road just north of Fir Grove (Eugene).  We visited it for the first time a few months ago in winter.  At our first visit, it was totally overgrown with blackberry brambles and was quite eery, but I didn't have a working camera at the time.  At this visit, the cemetery was partially cleaned up and much of the vegetation cleared out.  It wasn't quite as eery with this visit, but it is still very damaged from extensive vandalism.

During our first visit to Luper Cemetery we found one of the graves dug up.  Apparently some vandals had the gall to dig up a pioneer grave in search of some artifact or another.  You can see from the above photo that the grave has since been filled in.

Ghost House

These are photos of an abandoned house near Marcola, Oregon.  I didn't have my camera with me, so these were taken with my cell phone.

Pioneer Cemetery

These are pics from Crawfordsville Union Cemetery near Sweet Home, Oregon.  It is one of the oldest in Oregon.  It's supposed to be haunted, but we didn't feel anything weird there, in the late afternoon, on our visit.