Showing posts with label the town that was. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the town that was. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Centralia, Pennsylvania

We visited Centralia, PA this weekend.  After seeing photos for years, and after recently watching the documentary The Town That Was, we were invited by a friend to tag along on an exploration of the former site of this evacuated mining town.

Click here to watch the documentary's trailer.  
It'll make the photos below a lot more poignant.









Cemetery in the woods.

Lonely pumpkin.

An intimidating abandoned mine shaft.  The photo doesn't convey its massive size.








Tiny ice columns from the escaping steam.

The ubiquitous pentagram.







Thursday, January 28, 2010

Silent Hill

Beneath Centralia and surrounding areas lies a rich deposite of anthracite coal; very hard and compact, which burns slowly at a high temperature. Since the initial fire in 1962, the underground mine fires have spread some 400 acres, forcing the evacuation of homes in Centralia.