Disaster tourism
Head up PA-61 North and just past Ashland (home of the bronze statue of Whistler's Mother), and the road takes an abrupt shift to the right and you are greated by this sign:
If you don't chicken out and turn back, you will come across the remains of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which sits atop a coal mine that has been burning since 1961. The federdal government bought out most of the residents of the town and condemned it several years ago. There are a couple of old homes of people who refused to leave and a modern firehouse in the town (2000 Census population 21), but most everything has been razed. On the corner of what appeared to be the main intersection in downtown Centralia was this lonely park bench:
The sidewalks and side streets are crumbling but they are still around as are a couple of fire hydrants.
If you don't chicken out and turn back, you will come across the remains of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which sits atop a coal mine that has been burning since 1961. The federdal government bought out most of the residents of the town and condemned it several years ago. There are a couple of old homes of people who refused to leave and a modern firehouse in the town (2000 Census population 21), but most everything has been razed. On the corner of what appeared to be the main intersection in downtown Centralia was this lonely park bench:
The sidewalks and side streets are crumbling but they are still around as are a couple of fire hydrants.
1 Comments:
i live by here, its such a same to see what used to be such a beutiful city burn to ashes. Slowly but surely all of centralia will burn to the ground if something doesnt change =(.
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