Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

This is a fort where they built munitions what sort I am not to sure but about a year or so ago they went in and cleared out the old bunkers of all or at least they think most of the the ammo. In the most recent past the fort had a person who was a care taker of the property and I had heard that he would turn people away at the front gate, not allowing them to pass into the fort. I have taken Photos of a lot of different ghost towns but I have to say that there seems to be a presents of something other worldly, Kind of like looking at pictures taken back during the Second World War the concentration camps with there rows of barracks and the stark pictures of the Smoke Stacks reaching up to the heavens and my wife and I were taking about what we felt yesterday and came to the same conclusions there is a presents. The smell that is still in the air is that of cordite that smell of spent ammunition so any way here are pictures of Fort Igloo out side of Edgemont SD.

This is the sign at the end of the road into the fort,


This is on a blding at the top of the hill ... Maybe the admin bld.


A look down the side and front of the bld. Maybe some one father or gran dad was here I think it closed in the late 50's or early 60's I am not to sure.


Picture of guard house at what I would guess was the back gate.


Looking across the field at the Admin building this is the Back Side.


This was what looked to be a water tower but when I was taking this picture there was a smell in the air like Coridite or Spent gun power .... enough to raise the hair on the back of my arms, I wonder why!!!


This was the post church not sure what denomination it was but here it sat on top of the hill over looking what looked like the barracks.


Looking in the front door of the place of worship how many soals were saved there ??


The smoke stacks some of many ....


Here is the plant that made all of the heat and hot water for the Barrack building it was in there seems to be one of each of these stacks at each building but it looks like a concentration camp death photos you see during the second world war.


Nice Neat rows one after the other!!!


There was one difference this stack was topped with a spark arrestor maybe the others had them also but they were not in evidence.


Srair ways still remain even though the building is gone but like a widow they stand waiting for the return of the building.


This is the stark reality of the area it would almost drive one crazy except for the wind and a few cattle and one hears nothing here a stack stands alone watching over the barren starkness of the land surrounding it.


This is one that my wife called the stair way to Heaven I still wonder if you were to climb to the top if maybe you could Keep going .....


The front gate coming in from the main road this is looking onto the fort witjh the church and water tower in the back ground.


Here is the plaque that adorns the front gate munitions or some thing to do with it seeing how the post was for ordnance.


Here is a sign greeting you at the front gate, I wonder how long ago this was I did not get out to ask questions and in that passed a few headed out of the fort but I didn't have any problems, Maybe I will go back when I have bought a new camera. I think all I have to say is that if you enter a place like this is to take pictures only and leave only your tire tracks that way they may over look the trespass.

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

This fort was built in 1942 and closed in 1967. My wife said that all who are interested there are a lot of the pictures on the and a lot of information on the web. Mine were shot 6/11/12 so maybe that will give you folks a bit of a time line if your a researching the area.

Wickspics Loc: Detroits Northwest Side. Cody High School.

Interesting; Thanks for sharing;

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

We had barracks like those at fort gordon georgia. Had duty at night to keep fire going in heater. Only paint holding them together, they said they would burn to ground in 10 minutes. This was in 1967.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

This is a very nice series of photos. Thank you for posting. Now I am going to look it up on the web.

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

I took Basic in Lackland AFB Texas and We were in the old WW2 Barracks so I kind of know what they had for living Quarters that was in 1972.

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

If there is something that you would like to see I shot about 100 pictures I only put up a sample , I will see if I have the update to it. BTW I like your Pictures of your Garden RR I was going to do that where I live but I guess the Money was smaller than my plans, So it will now be an inside RR that will loop around inside my work shop done with a steam set back when our area was all about Gold.

preciousmetalairracing Loc: Reno, Nv

How interesting,but sad. You did a good job capturing the history..

Wizz Loc: Maryland, USA

Great set of shots from the abandoned fort! Thanks for the info!

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

For you folks who have a bit of moss growing on your backs here are pictures of the old Ft Igloo out side of Edgemont SD. I am sure that seeing how Veterans Day is on the 11th these may spark a few fires.

G.Rolf

These pictures do give me a little shudder. I lived there with my mother and father when I was 5 - 6. (1952-53) My dad worked there, but I never did know what he did. I do remember it was a very stressful time. I only remember a few incidences of that time of my life, but I have a clear memory that it was not a happy place for the adults that lived there. I remember there was a small community outside Igloo with a country store we would go to often, to visit with people off base. It was called Provo. From there we moved to Edgemont and my dad said he hoped he never had to lay eyes on Igloo again. I happened on your pictures by accident and wanted to say thanks for posting.

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

The town called Provo is still there thou not in the shape that it was when the base was active ... I along with several other drivers spent a week or two hauling crushed cars out of the Junk yard in the town. I am not sure if they had a store but they had a lot of empty buildings. Several of the buildings are lived in but it seems it is now just a siding for the train along with Edgemont. If there are any places that you would like pictures of I can take them next time my wife and I get in to the area. Thanks for the story I was stationed on a now defunk base in upstate Maine maybe in the future I will get to walk the old stomping grounds of Loring AFB.

G.Rolf

Thank you for the reply, and the info about Provo. If I ever get a chance to get back there I will certainly visit Provo & Igloo. If you are ever there and have the time, I would most appreciate seeing pictures of Edgemont, and especially at the park. My brother and I as youngsters spent so much time fishing in the park lake. Our favorite spot was just to the right of the bridge going to the island, there was/is a tree that we used to climb out over the water to get to the best fishing. We sometimes talk about those days wondering if that tree still exists, and ... if the couple of poles we dropped in the lake are still on the bottom. Just silly, but nice memories. I hope you get the opportunity to walk again on Loring AFB and remember that other time in your life. It is somewhat mystical visiting places where you spent time, but now are so lonesome, and abandon. Thanks again.
Gary

Sdaupanner Loc: South Dakota /New England

If you are interested in what I have for pictures of Igloo I think there are about 100 or so give or take a few I will put them together and send you all that I have all yiou have to do is give me your E-Mail address. Give me a few days my wife was saying that we have a picture taking trip to Edgemont so we will take a few of the fishing Pond or Lake and the tree to the right side of the bridge as you go over to the island. My wife and I are Bone Chasers in a strange way being retired myself and we do pictures of grave yard headstones so we put on quite a few miles doing this for people who live out of the area. The name of this group is Findagrave.com it is strictly volunteer but if you have a few minutes it is really a worth while organization.

Appleannie

I heard Igloo was producing anthrax. Producing developing germ warfare. When I was there, it was spooky. Many people bought the houses and moved them out. The 2 story ones were hard to move so they remained.
Plutonium was there and trucks were buried full of it.
Those bunkers were huge on the inside.
Rumors went A few years ago, the government went in and removed all buried trucks and other remaining items of interest.
This was shortly after it was used as a fly ash dump but the state of South Dakota. Later thousands of vegetables were grown there as the ground never had pesticides, they were amazingly sweet.
It's hard to imagine thousands of carpenters being brought in in huge late 30 and early forties to build the place. I've seen many pictures of the men by THE train loads being brought in. Amazing place.