Shawnee Water Treatment Facility

Shawnee Water Treatment Facility

Nov 3, 2009

This water treatment facility sits on the property of the current water treatment facility for Shawnee. The property is over 100 years old, and is currently being used as storage. The facility lacked the proper gauges to read important levels of  flow, and a new facility was built in 1980 and eventually in 2005 the old facility closed for good. The facility has...

Location Class: •Industrial
City: •Shawnee
Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team
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Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

Nov 2, 2009

This building in Shawnee was built in 1951 to serve Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Once Potawatomie County’s largest single employer, Sylvania closed it’s doors in 1961. 550 people were employed by the company at this Shawnee tube manufacturing plant when it closed. It had an employment peak of 1,002 employees in 1953, with 75% being women. The...

Location Class: •Industrial
City: •Shawnee
Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team
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