http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failetown%2C_Alabama

Quote :

"Today the town sits abandoned, but residents once included the Faile, Mott, and Agee families. The Faile Cemetery, Post Office, and other homes in various states of decay are all that remain of the town today."

[FAILE]

4/19/2008 11:13:12 PM

I'm just going to bump this because it's a bit different than what usually is associated with fail[e].

4/20/2008 12:35:53 AM

this thread = fail

4/20/2008 12:37:03 AM

^you forgot the [e]

4/20/2008 12:37:27 AM

no he didn't. this thread is just fail.

4/20/2008 12:37:59 AM

FUCK!!(e)

4/20/2008 12:38:10 AM

i.y.d.l.t.w.w.d.t.a.h.t.y.c.g.t.h.o.

4/20/2008 12:40:28 AM

that's a loooooooooong acronym and i don't know what it means...

4/20/2008 12:42:41 AM

Sounds as if the town failed.

4/20/2008 12:58:18 AM

if you dont like the way we do things around here you can get the hell out
-marko

4/20/2008 1:04:49 AM

4/20/2008 1:09:05 AM

Not to be confused with Wintown.

4/20/2008 1:13:20 AM

4/20/2008 1:15:21 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faile_(artist_collective)

4/20/2008 1:21:22 AM

Such high hopes, yet they were dashed.

4/20/2008 2:57:42 AM

you have an unaccounted for t in your acronym

4/20/2008 4:07:05 AM

first t stands for t-t-t-totally gay

4/20/2008 4:22:02 AM

f-r-e-e that spells free
credit report dot com baby?

4/20/2008 4:25:43 AM

awesome.

4/20/2008 7:06:26 AM

I love checking out ghost towns like this. You can usually find some creepy stuff.

4/20/2008 7:25:00 AM

yeah ghost towns are cool adventures

4/20/2008 8:42:31 AM

It looks like there isn't much to see at this one.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.928432,-88.016161&spn=0.1,0.1&t=k&q=31.928432,-88.016161

Though I've seen some cool ones out west.

4/20/2008 12:40:12 PM

haha I can think of about 50 wolfwebbers that need to be buried there when they kick the bucket

4/20/2008 12:41:31 PM

The Faile Cemetery: Where fail goes to die.

4/20/2008 3:33:26 PM

For those who faile at life.

4/20/2008 3:47:01 PM

bttt for my other thread that belongs in Failetown

4/21/2008 8:43:19 PM

I'm going to check this place out when I'm in Al.

4/21/2008 8:48:29 PM

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghost_towns_in_Alabama

4/21/2008 9:20:04 PM

I'm in.

4/21/2008 9:22:09 PM

Blakeley and Cahawba sound really cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakeley%2C_Alabama
http://www.cahawba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2

Beaver Mills looks cool too, but it sounds like a pain in the ass to get there.
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/al/beavermills.html

4/21/2008 9:49:52 PM

Let's get on our faile boates and faile to faile towne.

4/21/2008 9:52:40 PM

come faile away, come faile away, come faile away with meee now.

4/21/2008 11:12:41 PM

Failing
Takes me away
To where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

4/22/2008 5:48:25 PM

ttt

6/12/2008 5:45:52 PM

might happen this weekend

8/25/2008 3:36:37 PM

Did it happen?

9/22/2008 5:47:07 PM

nah. It is about 2 hours away, but not on the way to anything, really. I'll get there sooner or later, but with gas the way it is, it'll have to be on the way somewhere else.

10/6/2008 6:46:36 PM

????? ?? ??? ???? ? ????? ??????? ???? ???????? ????!!

10/6/2008 6:47:16 PM

this is great. i love threads like this. (threads which have info like this)

10/6/2008 7:23:01 PM

Now that gas is so cheap, I might head there tomorrow.

12/27/2008 10:32:59 AM

Nice. Take pictures if you do.

12/27/2008 2:48:56 PM

Nice. Take pictures if you do.

12/27/2008 2:48:56 PM

Nice. Take pictures if you do.

12/27/2008 2:51:42 PM

So, my Failetown expedition was something of a Faileure. I figured I'd set out this afternoon, looking at Google Map's predicted 4 hour time and figuring I could cover it in 3 hours. I also decided that I would take a slightly more scenic route than their suggested route. The route I chose was actually fewer miles but over slower roads. Fortunately, they were less patrolled as well.

Anyway, I left around 1pm and realized that I'd be going through Georgiana, Alabama, where Hank Williams spent part of his boyhood and learned to play guitar. I'll post pictures of me on the front porch tomorrow. This set me back about 45 minutes though, and I had to floor it trying to get out to Failetown before the sundown. It didn't help that I made a wrong turn in Thomasville onto MLK Jr. For what its worth, Caucasians driving pickup trucks down an MLK that is off a side road, off a side road, off a two lane county road get weird looks.

Anyway, I finally get turned around the right way and reach Campbell, the closest town with a post office (again, pics to be posted tomorrow), right at sundown. I turn onto the dirt road that leads to Failetown. Now, mind you, this is 20 miles from Thomasville, the nearest town of any consequence, with a population of less than 5,000. I'm now turning down off a dilapidated two lane blacktop, after sundown, onto a typically narrow dirt road. The people who live here aren't looking for visitors. Then my friend who was riding with me, starts launching into a discussion about a story she did on a heavily booby-trapped meth lab that was busted in Enterprise a few months ago . . .

So we drive down the road a good ways, till my GPS is dead center on the intersection that the Wikipedia article places Failetown at. Not much there. A street sign that says Pearl, a few rotting houses I can kind-of make out in my headlights, a bunch of trailers, and not much else. I drive up and down with my flashlight looking for the cemetery, or something Faileish but I can't find a thing. After about 20 minutes I figure its about time to split so I drive on back.

Sadly, I've got nothing really to show for it, but I'll probably head back before I leave Alabama. *shrug*

12/27/2008 11:12:32 PM

12/28/2008 1:13:41 PM

^^Failtrip.

12/28/2008 1:18:03 PM

Hmm. Well, my Thurmond, WV quest went well. I'll try to explore Failetown next time I pass through Alabam.

12/28/2008 2:52:11 PM

Yeah, I'm definitely going back. I'll hit up the one near Selma pretty soon too. It was a cool trip and somewhat poetic that my Failetown expedition was a first time Faileure.

12/28/2008 3:35:40 PM

fail

12/29/2008 11:03:29 AM

set em up

12/29/2008 11:03:41 AM