The word arrives after the leaving and describes only the leaving. No record in this file says who abandoned Zion. It was built on: a storefront, warehouses, and Robles Park Village. Call that abandonment and the sentence has no subject in it.
That is the work the word does. An abandoned cemetery is a condition, like weather. A cleared one has somebody who cleared it. Florida wrote a law that speaks of dignity and affront and emotional trauma, passed two acts with no recorded floor vote against them, and a county planner told its task force that, for local governments without a local ordinance, nothing required checking the state’s inventory of sites. Five apartment buildings still stood on the cemetery site when its task force reported.
Abandoned is what a record says when it has stopped looking for who was holding the deed.