Twenty poured-concrete duplexes built in 1911 by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's coal division as a model workers' village, abandoned in 1924 when the company balked at installing sewers; a 1924 demolition attempt with 100 sticks of dynamite failed to bring down a single house. All 20 shells still stand in the woods outside Nanticoke on publicly owned land, heavily graffitied and used by paintballers. Access is a short walk from Front Street and is generally tolerated with no posted signs, but the buildings themselves have collapsing stairs, open basements, and crumbling second floors — explore the grid, stay off the upper levels.
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