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08-15-2007, 09:54 PM
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Wow, is that true or an old tale? Sounds horrible.
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Yes, it is true. I have been to Centralia and seen the smoke. There was an article about the town in a national magazine recently (I'm thinking "People", but maybe not.) There is also an area of Boulder County, Colorado called Marshall Mesa that has coal burning underground. My daughter's 3rd grade class went there when studying Colorado history! |
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08-15-2007, 11:04 PM
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Hello all was reading a lot of the post here my husband and I are trying to find info. about Pa. for he was offered a job and we have little time to let them know if he will take it! We need any info. and pictures of the area around Lewistown, Port Royal, Miffleton and any areas around there I have received 1 neg. responce on both Port Royal and Lewistown and 1 good responce on Lewistown We must let them know next week so I am doing alot of research but not finding much! We are form Ill. So we can't just go and check it out so all info. will help we don't want to make a bad move! Pictures of the locations could help too!
PS. I will be alone days maybe weeks at a time due to husbands job if he takes it so need good, safe areas!
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08-16-2007, 09:55 AM
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Drive along route 61 through Shamokin and you'll see a literal mountain of coal slag and shale just north of town. How this stays in place I'll never know but it looked recently to have slid a little or maybe they were removing some of the slope. I believe this is the largest shale pile in the world or maybe the coal mine was the deepest, I 'll have to research.
Centralia and Mount Carmel was the site of a pretty bad commercial plane crash back in the late 1940s and one crash victim was buried at the Centralia cemetary.
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08-19-2007, 07:35 PM
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Gettysburg, York County is the worst- backwards people, old decrepit places, failing job industry and nothing interesting to go to. The rock band Live came out of York County, that's why they left and never came back.
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08-19-2007, 10:20 PM
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You know, POTATOES!
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: South Central PA
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Originally Posted by thedarkportrait
Gettysburg, York County is the worst- backwards people, old decrepit places, failing job industry and nothing interesting to go to. The rock band Live came out of York County, that's why they left and never came back.
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Gettysburg isn't the WORST-backwards people. Around gettysburg it's mostly well educated area due to higher new home prices (generally 250+) and Maryland commuters, although as you move north and west you start getting into the Pennsyltucky.
Gettysburg has improved a significant number of it's historic buildings and on the whole is a lot nicer than many other places in the US i've seen. The job industry is relatively stagnant mostly because it's a tourist town and the only job growth really is in those fields with a few exceptions.
York is bad, but western half and gettysburg are improving. |
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08-19-2007, 10:28 PM
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Location: Midtown Harrisburg
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Originally Posted by thedarkportrait
Gettysburg, York County is the worst- backwards people, old decrepit places, failing job industry and nothing interesting to go to. The rock band Live came out of York County, that's why they left and never came back.
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Not really. I won't disagree on some of the people there being backwards, but the area is seeing a lot of migration and the job market is pretty good. |
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08-20-2007, 09:49 AM
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Shamokin has the world's largest man made mountain, a culm pile from the Glen Burn mine.
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08-20-2007, 09:13 PM
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Don['t go to Corry
I got stuck in corry they are very clannish snobby and hate anyone that is not born in that town. As soon as I can I am packing up my 2 childern myself and leaving and I ain't looking back
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08-22-2007, 07:35 PM
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Whatever You Do Dont Move To Erie Cause You Cant Find A Job Here Unless You Are A Doctor Or A Lawyer
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08-24-2007, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by yogagirl54
My great-grandmother lived in Centralia and when I was young (in the late '50's, early 60's) we would visit and play on the piles of coal that where everywhere. It really is strange driving through there and seeing what it has become.
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centralia is sufering from and underground mine fire... and will be for around 3-400 years |
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