Finding beauty, decay, and unanswered questions in Yorklyn’s ruins I visited Yorklyn De, where there are ruins and abandoned building galore to explore. Here is a place where the bones of industry still jut out from the earth like ruins of some long lost civilization. Hidden in the hills along Red Clay Creek, the village was once a thriving mill town, loud with machinery, smoke, and the constant churn of industry. Now it feels suspended somewhere between history and haunting. Brick walls crumbling and trees growing where they don’t belong. Rusted gears sleep in rooms and in fields. Empty windows
