On June 24, I received this email from a young reader with a driving goal to become a photojournalist. Thank you Drew for sharing your interest in Carrollton and for utilizing your talent to create stunning images from the area we once loved.
As of an hour ago I knew nothing about Carrolton, mostly because I’m only 18 and was too young to remember any of this. I actually began to investigate the whole story of what went on there because me and my friend went there today. Upon entrance and on our drive there (my friend had already been there with some of his friends) we were calling it “ghost town.” He described a subdivision where everything was there, but the houses. The idea did not impress me, but when we arrived I was blown away. As a photographer all I could see was how beautiful it all was. I intend to go back, but with a new perspective on the area. I have seen pictures and read many of your posts now, and I think I can remember feeling the eerie pain and sorrow that must have ensued the area. While we were there we spent much of the time feeling as if we weren’t safe there. I think that’s even more worrisome to think about when I read your posts about how comfortable people were with the area. How I wish that life was still that trustworthy and safe. Anyways, me and my friend are now genuinely interested in the story of Carrolton, and intend to go back another day. I took a photo while we were there, and I thought I should include it in this message. Without this website I don’t think that me and him would really know what happened there. We just assumed it was a neighborhood that never got built.
Here is a link to Drew’s image, Desolation.
J. Desy Schoenewies
56 Houses Left 
Sad, but not unexpected, A new grneration coming to the site of Carrollton but not knowing what was once there. Wanting to understand what it might have been like to have lived there at the time of it’s height of existence. Was it a simpler and safer time. This speaks volumes of the passage of time. That sooner than we might believe Carrollton will be just a note in the history of the area. Unknown to all but those who choose to know. Carrollton was a planned community of the mid 20th century. It featured a style of home that became known as Mid Century Modern. These homes were built from the mid 1950s to approx 1980. The neighborhood also featured a full service shopping center, 3 service stations, schools both public and parochial and several churches. As such it was successful and had matured into a neighborhood of sheltering trees and well kept homes with trimmed lawns and likely may have become a credible historic distric, in the MCM genre had it not been for greed and misuse of eminent domain.