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Photo Updates:

Centralia PA 2008
January Photos and 
commentary by
Donald Davis


2006 Photos


2005 Photos
of Centralia

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2004 Photos
of Centralia


2003 photos

of Centralia

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2002 photos

of Centralia

 

Fire In The Hole
by Kristie Betts
A fictional story based on Centralia
 

 

Looking for 
a reason to 
visit Centralia?
Plan your visit around one of Pennsylvania's best kept secrets located only 15 miles up the road from Centralia.

Knoebels
Amusement Park

Click Below for
 more details...

Knoebels
Amusement Park

 

Centralia Pennsylvania Multimedia
  

 Asphalt Films Presents: 
Centralia Tragedy of a Town
Presented by Garrett Rhodes

A short film of a personal visit to Centralia
 
 

  

Centralia Songs

The three songs below are in MP3 format and can be played with Windows Media player or your favorite MP3 player. 

If you want to save a copy of this file to your computer, right, click the links below and choose "Save target as", then save it to your computer.

 

 

 

Ken Battista's Song "Centralia"

 

Also check out Ken's other 
songs by following this link:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kenbattista2

Copyright ©2004 Ken Battista
kbattista@yahoo.com

    

  

Shannon Kealey's
Song "Centralia"

Shannon Kealey wrote and sings this song about Centralia.  Her song was inspired by an article she read about Centralia in her college geology class.  You can visit Shannon at the following web address:
www.myspace.com/shannonkealey

 

   

  

   

Big Sky Stringband -  This song's author is Chris Meier who sings and plays mandolin on the track.  The harmony vocals and guitar work is provided by Jay Stanek.  The Big Sky Stringband is a Chicago-based band who recently expanded its membership from a duo to a five-piece band.  (http://www.bigskystringband.com)

    

 

 

 


 

  

Other Interesting Things

 


 

 

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Centralia PA inspires the making of the movie Silent Hill
Read More Here...


 

RESIDENTS TO SAVE THE BOROUGH OF CENTRALIA - FACT SHEET #6 - MARCH 1984 - This "Fact Sheet" was transcribed from a photocopied, original March 1984 newsletter from a Centralia organization called "Residents To Save The Borough Of Centralia".  Read the News Letter here

130th Anniversary of the 1877 Shamokin Uprising and the Great Railroad Strike .. Read More

Centralia Today
A Photo Documentary
of Centralia today.

 

Is Centralia Haunted?
Explore the possibility

  
Mine Emergency Response Program
Details from the
Saskatchewan
Mine Rescue Manual
  

  

Is there Hope
for Centralia?

Maybe...

Through the use of Nitrogen-Enhanced foam the Pinnacle mine fire was extinguished by Cummins Industries, Inc.  Cummins proposes to tackle the Centralia Mine fire and bring an end to the 
40 plus year fire.

Read this White Paper which evaluates the effectiveness of remotely applied nitrogen-enhanced foam to aid in efforts to isolate and suppress a mine fire.