Klotz Silk Throwing Mill, Lonaconing MD

The Klotz Silk Mill in Lonaconing, Maryland, once stood as one of the best-preserved silk mills in the United States. For decades, its machinery and workrooms offered a rare glimpse into America’s industrial past. Today the building has fallen into deep ruin, with time and weather taking their final toll. These photographs capture the mill in the years before its collapse, when echoes of its history could still be seen in the dust.