Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The Mother With Children statue by William Douglas Hopen, outside the International Mother's Day Shrine, at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia

The now (as of 2015) closed and private Aetnaville Bridge, constructed in 1891, which connected Wheeling Island (part of Wheeling, West Virginia) to what is now Bridgeport, Ohio, across a back channel of the Ohio River

The old Alexander Creel Tavern, also known as the Cain House, in St. Marys, West Virginia

The Northern Ag Service Inc. grain elevator and related equipment in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

The old First Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a historic red-brick Southern Methodist church building in Pueblo, Colorado

The old Colorado & Southern Railroad Depot, now the city visitor center in Walsenburg, Colorado

The Nici Self Historical Museum in Centennial, a tiny community in the Snowy Range Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming

The New River Gorge Bridge, a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia

The old Cass Company Store in the heart of the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

The old and modest Little Kanawha Valley Bank building in Glenville, West Virginia

The old Carnegie Library building in downtown Huntington, West Virginia. It is now used by Huntington Junior College

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West Virginia

The old (and empty as of this image in 2015) Davies Hotel in Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

The now-derelict (in 2015) Sweet Springs health resort, once famous for its supposedly curative warm waters, which opened in 1833 in Monroe County, Virginia (later West Virginia)

The old Jackson's Mill at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

The Old Main administration building at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel that was a popular stop along the National Road, at Roney's Point in Ohio County, east of Wheeling, West Virginia

The old freight station of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad, across the street from Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado

The old Gottleib Daetwyler boot and shoemaker's cabin in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

The old People's Cash and Trade mercantile store in the town of Beverly, one of the first settlements west of the Allegheny Mountains, founded in 1790 in the Tygart River Valley of what was then Virginia and is now (in 2015) West Virginia

The old, stone Bank of Kingwood building in Kingwood, West Virginia

The old Merchants & Merchants Bank Building in Grafton, West Virginia

The old Leiker Mercantile (or small-town department store) in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

The old, colorful, and as of 2015, abandoned, Avon Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

The old Fort Smith Saloon (in 2015 the Unicas Southwest handicraft store), a historic building featured in the 1969 Western movie "True Grit" in the town of Ridgway, which calls itself the "Gateway to the San Juans," in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

The old Kanawha Falls post office, to the left, and an adjacent museum building, overlooking the confluence of the Gauley and New Rivers in the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

The old town square in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

The Paden City, West Virginia, Public Library

The owner of "Sharp's Kissing Bridge" across the road from Sharp's Country Store in Slaty Fork, West Virginia, has a rich sense of humor

The Palace Furniture Building in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia

The Outlaw Restaurant in Ouray, Colorado

The Opera House in Marlinton, West Virginia

The Parsons Bell Tower at the Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia

The Pickett Library and Funkhouser Auditorium on the campus of Alderson Broaddus University in Phillippi, West Virginia

The Philippi Covered Bridge across the Tygart Valley River in Philippi, West Virginia

The Parkersburg Oil and Gas Museum in the old W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The parapet and its view at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

The Park County Courthouse in Fairplay, Colorado, is (as of 2015) the oldest working courthouse in the state. Built in 1874, it also serves as a public library

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including this restaurant and ice cream parlor, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the Plains Hotel, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The Pemberton Coal Camp Church, one of the original coal-town buildings now displayed at the Beckley Exhibition Mine site in Beckley, West Virginia

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The Preston County Courthouse in Kingwood, West Virginia

The procession winds its way through downtown Clarksburg at the annual North Central West Virginia Scottish Festival and Celtic Gathering parade that ends with a celebration at Clarksburg's First Presbyterian Church

The public library in Burnsville, West Virginia

The Point Pleasant-Henderson Bridge over the Kanawha River, connecting Point Pleasant and Henderson, West Virginia, near the point where the Kanawha empties into the Ohio River

The prow-like, plumed marquee of the Lamar Theatre in downtown Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

The principal barn at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

The Pleasants County Courthouse in St. Marys, West Virginia

The Pleasants County Public Library in St. Marys, West Virginia

The principal barn and an auxilliary building at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

The public library in Buckhannon, the seat of Upshur County, West Virginia

The post office in Hasty, a tiny town in Bent County, Colorado

The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

The public library in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The public library in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Units of the old Gateway Motel in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

The Randolph County Courthouse in Elkins, West Virginia

The Pueblo Medal of Honor Memorial outside the city's convention center in Pueblo, Colorado