forgotten history

The Forgotten German Church That Started My Obsession

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Front view of Holy Trinity Church in the Faubourg Marigny, an abandoned 19th-century German Catholic church with distinctive onion domes and worn brick façade.

Holy Trinity Church, New Orleans Some places don’t ask for attention.They wait for it. I wasn’t searching for abandoned buildings when I first saw Holy Trinity Church. I wasn’t researching forgotten history or chasing lost places yet. We had just left St. Patrick Cemetery, on our way to the 9th Ward. We were just in … Read more

The Chapel of Ease: Where Forgotten Friday Began

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Ruins of the St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease on St. Helena Island, built in the 1740s from tabby and now standing abandoned beneath moss-covered trees.

It started with a name on a map. I was planning a road trip to Washington, D.C.—nothing spooky, nothing intentional. Just a long drive, a ten-year-old history buff in the passenger seat, and a tired driver trying to avoid highway hypnosis. To break up the drive, I used Roadtrippers to plot a few stops along … Read more