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Old 15-01-2012, 01:25 PM #26
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Someone got married at the Church there this year

I'm surprised Christabella wasnt the Priest there
I wonder how many are left in the town now. (Only just seen your post).
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I wonder how many are left in the town now. (Only just seen your post).
According to Wikipedia, ten people still live there
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A few recent pictures

A minehouse


Christmas time


Ironically, a nearby town is named Ashland...
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omfg have they heard of firemen
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omfg have they heard of firemen
It's impossible to put out veins of coal underground
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It's impossible to put out veins of coal underground
Not if you work as a team
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Not if you work as a team
No, it really is the veins are miles long and they will ignite like wild fire, they will eventually burn out, but it's gonna be a long time
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I'm sure that if all it took was a few firemen then it would have been put out a long time ago
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No, it really is the veins are miles long and they will ignite like wild fire, they will eventually burn out, but it's gonna be a long time
that's what they want you to think
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Who? lmfao
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Still find this really fascinating! And my new flatmate is a fireman, I'm going to bring this up with him tonight.. hahah
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that's what they want you to think
There's something they're not telling us!!! There's a colonial woman on the wing, she's churning butter, She's dressed in colonial garb.

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Some pics from this year






This **** is creepy looking, apparentley it is a result of steam forcing its way through the ground


Steam coming from the ground
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I think it's great the way it's real life.
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Seems there's only 6 people left there now, but they have won the right to stay there for the rest of their lives

http://articles.mcall.com/2013-10-31...esidents-homes
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Is the fire still burning, do we know?
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The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town that was largely razed in the 1980s because of an underground mine fire that still burns today have gotten their wish — to be left alone, free to live out their lives there.

A lengthy battle over eminent domain culminated this week when eight residents of Centralia settled their lawsuit against state officials who had been trying to evict them from their condemned homes. The settlement, notice of which was filed in U.S. District Court, allows the residents to stay for as long as they live. It also includes a cash payout of $349,500.

"Everybody got what we wanted, and everybody's happy now," resident Tom Hynoski, 52, said Thursday.

The mine fire was ignited in 1962 and eventually spread to the vast network of mines beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes. By the end of the 1980s, more than 1,000 people had moved and 500 structures been demolished under a $42 million federal relocation program.

But some holdouts refused to go, even after their houses were seized in the early 1990s. They said the fire posed little danger to their part of town, accused government officials and mining companies of a plot to grab the rights to billions of dollars' worth of anthracite coal, and vowed to stay put.

After years of letting them be, state officials decided a few years ago to take possession of the homes. The homeowners fought back with a federal lawsuit.

Hynoski, who has long contended that government corruption involving the coal rights was behind the state's drive to force them out, claimed vindication.

"They bent us, but they didn't break us," he said.

State officials have long denied any such plot to grab the coal rights and say they sought possession of the properties out of public safety concerns.

Last year, a geologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said the fire may have gone deeper underground but still poses a threat because it has the potential to open up new pathways for deadly gases to reach the remaining homes. But residents say that's nonsense and point out that they've lived for decades in their homes without incident.

The agreement includes $218,000 to compensate residents for the value of their homes and $131,500 to settle additional claims raised in the lawsuit, according to Steve Kratz, spokesman for the state Department of Community and Economic Development, a defendant in the suit.

The mine fire has transformed Centralia into a macabre tourist attraction. There's an intact street grid with almost nothing on it, clouds of steam waft from the cracked earth, and visitors gawk at the ruins of an abandoned highway.

But the homes that remain are neatly kept, and this week's settlement means that Centralia as a town has not yet breathed its last.

"They get to live in their property and enjoy it the rest of their life," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Don Bailey. "We did very well."

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How the town is looking these days

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No idea what reminded me of Centralia. Crazy to think 5 people still there after all this time.

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I believe they've covered the old graffitied highway that lead into town now, sadly, weird to think that in a few decades the remnants of the town will be gone too
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I believe they've covered the old graffitied highway that lead into town now, sadly, weird to think that in a few decades the remnants of the town will be gone too
It's sad to think about tbh.
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I believe they've covered the old graffitied highway that lead into town now, sadly, weird to think that in a few decades the remnants of the town will be gone too
I love to visit the place, before it’s gone for good.
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…it’s incredibly sad, really…I recall you posting about this through time here, Scarlett…we all know of ‘ghost towns’ but to see it actually unfold is just so, so sad…it’s easy to see its beauty as well…
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