CENTRALIA, PA - America's Burning Ghost Town (Documentary)
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I was poking around YouTube and found a relatively new documentary on Centralia. I haven't watched it yet, so I don't know if it's just a rehash of other videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5LjacccJ0
Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5LjacccJ0
Mike
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Looks like it's all new, goes through the town's history.
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Is the New Straitsville mine fire still burning?
The fire continues today, having in 132 years consumed 13 square miles of a coal vein between 8 and 10 feet thick. In the 1880s the thriving coal town of New Straitsville was the center of union organizing. Several groups competed for miners' loyalty.
In 1884, striking miners pushed burning coal cars into a mine owned by the New Straitsville Mining Company, setting the mine ablaze. The fire still burns underground to this day. The New Straitsville Mining Company established the community of New Straitsville, about fifty miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio, in 1870.
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