Sandhills Youth Complex

Built in 1925 as the State Training School for Negro Boys at Hoffman (later renamed the Morrison Training School in 1939, and the Cameron Morrison School in 1969), the Sandhills Youth Complex has a long and complicated history. Over the decades, the facility has served as a reform school, juvenile detention center, and possibly even a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.

Another abandoned structure, clearly designed as a prison, sits just across the street, adding to the site’s eerie atmosphere. Little official information exists online, but records suggest the complex closed in the 1970s and has been left derelict since the early 2000s. The North Carolina government has reportedly slated it for demolition.