Must be the short pier you're supposed to take a long walk on!

Archeology, isn't it addictive?

Especially Industrial Archaeology.

Agreed, I'm taking a free course on-line that starts in June. Coursera.org I am addicted to Time Team, I have watched every one even the specials.

I shall have to look into that! Living near Chicago, there are plenty of opportunities for that sort of thing...and for photographing it! https://www.furaffinity.net/full/5778804/

In San Antonio... See the magnificent ruins of the Spanish Catholic Oppression, wonder at the tourist trap called The Alamo... Yeah... speuuuuuuuuuu

Funny how much they celebrate a laughable military failure, yes. We didn't make a tourist attraction of the fall of Fort Dearborn...we put up a commemorative plaque and then built a magnificent drawbridge.

I know how these can be. There's one set of piers near me, crossing the Burlington's Eola Yard. There are four concrete pillars there, along with evidence of footings for steel trestle-bents, but I can't see any evidence of a road or railroad on either side, using the satellite imagery, and of course I can't make any close observations, since it's in the middle of an active rail yard. But it always is fascinating what can be found, and the questions that they inspire. And then you find things that are still in use, too: https://www.furaffinity.net/full/6408026/

I find http://www.historicaerials.com very useful in figuring out these things, provided the images are in their setup.

I have a feeling it was a pier for a bridge that was used by a farmer. Didn't have to be especially pretty or safe *lol* I have seen similar setups around VT like this.