It’s hard to keep your imagination in check when seeing an abandoned place in Connecticut. It’s so easy to get lost imagining the history of a place, thinking about all the souls who have gone through before you, all the sights the walls have born witness to. One haunting abandoned spot in the Nutmeg State is located in the woods around Union Pond in Manchester. More than 100 years ago, this place housed a cotton mill and paper mill that drew power from the Hockanum River. The buildings there are long closed, and it’s now a hauntingly abandoned place that most people stay far away from.

It's not hard to imagine this as a thriving mill, tucked away along the river, using the water flow as a source of power.
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Allegedly, the mills here closed due to polluting the nearby pond, likely sometime around the 1930s.
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The mills here were once thriving captains of industry: the mighty Union Cotton Mill and Hudson Paper Mill. The buildings in the woods behind the vibrant pond are now spooky and empty.
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Graffiti covers nearly every easy-to-reach surface, and there's such a creepy air about the place.
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Over the years, the pond has been cleaned up and is now safe for recreational activities. You can enjoy a nice picnic or stroll on the maintained trails that surround the pond, but it's best to observe the abandoned buildings from a distance.
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This is not somewhere you want to go exploring - it's much safer to admire the eerie beauty from a computer screen!
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Much of the details about the mills’ history have been lost to time, so you’ll often just hear the area referred to as the “Union Pond Mills.” Have you ever heard of this abandoned place in Connecticut?

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