Urban Escape : NewJersey

Ghost of "Buckeye Billy"

Lambertville High School: Abandoned & Demolished in 2012

Built in 1854 in Lambertville, New Jersey, was the former home of students of the Lambertville school district. A fire destroyed much of the school in 1926, but it was remodeled and rebuilt in 1927 and used until June 1959, at which time the last senior class graduated. It sat like a museum from then on, on top of the hill overlooking Lambertville and the Delaware River.

The school was closed after the 1959 class graduated as it was too small and outdated for the growing area. Many small-town high schools were closed in the 1950s across New Jersey, as the state consolidated the school districts and replaced obsolete schools like Lambertville High with modern, suburban facilities that could serve larger regional areas. South Hunterdon Regional High School replaced Lambertville High and opened for classes in September 1959.
The old "school on the hill" was then used as a place to sell electronics for many years, until it eventually sat empty and abandoned (though structurally intact) for over 30 years, until vandals set a fire in 1992 which destroyed most of the building's interior and essentially gutted most of the structure, including the roof. Behind the school, about 50 feet through some tall weeds and brush, sits the old football field, still marked clearly by the rusty old goal posts. This is where the weirdness begins...

The Story Of Buckeye

At the High School's football game both teams went scoreless the first quarter, but by the time the half rolled around, the score was 21-21. You could almost smell the tension in the air. The Eagles (L-ville) and the Buckeyes (New Hope) both did their absolute best with the half-time show, hoping to get the crowd up and the players into the game. The third quarter now began. New Hope had the ball and was running for the touchdown when the wide receiver from New Hope was tackled. To everyone’s surprise, he didn’t get up. The coaches rushed the field but by the time they got there, the boy was dead, his neck broken, and his head almost turned completely around. The game was forfeited.

Challenging Billy, NOT Buckeye, to an Unfriendly Game of Ball

This may or may not get you very hurt! LOL Didn't hear or see anything while I was in the school. It was just exciting and fun to walk around.

Sadly the school was DEMOLISHED in the fall of 2012!

This is what you see when you first walk up the stairs to get to the school

Lambertville High School

Erected: AD 1854

Remodeled: AD 1926

(Can't read it with all the graffiti)

Boarded up to try and keep people out

LOVE this picture. I am not sure why, but it looks so creepy and cool at the same time!

Vines

The stairs to get up to the school

Machine Room

Looks like an old kilm

An old classroom

Take a look inside

Lower level of the school

This room was pitch black didn't walk in just snapped a picture and kept walking around

Only ventured in the one side of the building. Could not get over to the other side.

Roof access

Huge room, maybe a café or general room

Pitch black in the basement, didn't go any further than this

Stuff all over!

Electrical box of some sort

Point Pleasant, New Jersey

Damaged

November 2012. Right after Hurricane Sandy. You can see the damage.

Not only to the homes, but to the boardwalk and the beaches.

Boardwalk all ripped up and you can see at the end its all sand

Clearing up and people are coming out to look at the beaches

Huge wall of sand

So pretty!

How you had to get onto the beach

Ripples in the Ocean

Pieces of the boardwalk were all over

Houses were still boarded up, you can see the white house in the distance

Looks like a sign from the street

The beauty of Nature after a storm

Devastation & Sadness

Hurricane Sandy: Seaside Heights

Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. Estimates as of June 2013 assess damage to have been over $68 billion, a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina. At least 285 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries. The severe and widespread damage the storm caused in the United States, as well as its unusual merge with a frontal system, resulted in the nicknaming of the hurricane by the media and several organizations of the U.S. government "Superstorm Sandy" or was called "Frankenstorm Sandy"

In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York.