Burn Baby Burn!!! Centralia, PA

A sunny Sunday afternoon ride to Centralia. I visited the Borough as a kid and remembered a town, when I arrived I was surprised to find that it was entirely gone, disappeared during my lifetime. After I got back I googled old pictures of the town that I remembered and included some of them in the vid. I have another vid of my coal stove and visiting a coal mine in Columbia County is one of the endearing memories of my childhood, it was the same trip that we went through Centralia, or what was Centralia, being children we were not allowed off of the bus due to the threat of noxious gasses.
Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007, as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania.
All properties in the borough were claimed under eminent domain by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992 (and all buildings therein were condemned); Centralia's ZIP code was revoked by the Post Office in 2002. However, a few residents continue to reside there in spite of a failed lawsuit to reverse the eminent domain claim.

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[TheBusyBabyMama]

I am planning a trip at the end of the month, I can't wait~ ! I heard the last man lving there actually left just this past spring. Do you have any info or advice you could share with me?