Pennsylvania’s Burning Ghost Town: Centralia’s Eerie Remains
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The coal mines that were the key to Centralia’s success also fueled the small Pennsylvania town’s smoky demise in a massive 1962 fire that is still burning to this day.
Centralia started burning half a century ago and hasn’t stopped.
The small central Pennsylvania town once literally had a ground full of potential, but it was destroyed by the substance that made it prosper: its coal veins.
Centralia was founded in 1866 as a coal mining town, booming with saloons, hotels, and miners getting rich through the area’s burgeoning industry.