The historic mill village reached audiences worldwide when it served as the heroine Katniss Everdeen’s hometown.

Durham neighbors tried for more than a decade to get an abandoned home in the Woodcroft neighborhood torn down with no luck. The city has started tearing down the home at 109 Old Fox Trail in Durham.

Today, the village of Crescent is largely hidden in the 15,000-acre wilderness on North Manitou Island, the long-abandoned homes and businesses left to forces of nature for more than a century.