Environmental Crisis: Centralia Becomes a Ghost Town
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Centralia was once a booming town in northeastern Pennsylvania until the early 1960s when a contractor setting a landfill on fire unknowingly ignited a coal field beneath it.
Environmental Crisis: Centralia Becomes a Ghost Town
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- 20. Videos of Centralia Click links to video on youtube Our walk through Centralia ~ Pipes near original fire location (30sec) Centralia Man (16sec) Small Fire beneath the brush (16sec) Walk #1 (36 sec) Cracks in road (28 sec) Walking towards steam (29 sec) Walking towards steam #2 (20 sec) Walking towards steam #3 (37) Close to steam venting from cracked road (1:28) Walking towards steam #4
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- 22. Bibliography Bike, William W. Streets of the Near West Side. Bloomington, Authorhouse Publishers, 2002. Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. New York, Harper Collins, 2009. Campbell, Patrick. A Molly Maguire Story. Jersey City: P.H. Campbell, 1992. Connelly, Scott , The Greatest Strike Ever 2010 ( http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Coal1902.html ) Johnson, Deryl Bert. Centralia; Arcadia Publishing, San Francisco, 2004. Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. NYC: Oxford Press, 1998. Lewis, Arthur H. Lament of the Molly Maguires. NYC: Harcourt Brace & World, 1964. Explore PA History. The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 "Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902." American Decades. 2001. High Beam Research. Offroaders.com An Aerial View of Centralia, from YouTube PowerPoint for educational purposes only.
Editor's Notes
- #21: Videos of Centralia click on the links to view on youtube.