Centralia Links

Here is additional information about Centralia and the surrounding area.

Books

• Bryson, Bill - A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - It mentions Centralia briefly in one chapter, and a lot of the people I talked to last time I was there have apparently read it.
• DeKok, David. Unseen Danger : A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire.
• Jacobs, Renee - Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
• Kress, Leonard. The Centralia Mine Fire (Flume Chapbook Series, No 4)
• Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Couch, Stephen Robert. The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire & Social Conflict.

Websites

Centralia

• www.centraliapa.com - Ritamarie Long's website, which has an amazing panoramic photo of Centralia circa 1983, and rosters of former residents of Centralia and Brynesville.
• Centralia, Pennsylvania - An offroading site with a large collection of pictures and information about Centralia.
• The Day The Earth Caved In - Award-winning journalist Joan Quigley's story of the nation's worst mine fire.
• Town Atop a Burning Coal Mine - Roadside America's page about Centralia.
• Place Taste and The Taste of Place - An article by John B. Krygier, published in Globehead! The Journal of Extreme Geography (Volume 1: Thing 2, 1995).
• The Centralia Project: The Story of a Forgotten Town - A collaborative effort by Bethany Rusen and John Bragazzi documenting their March 2000 visit to Centralia.
• The Centralia Mine Fire - The website for David DeKok's excellent book Unseen Danger, story of how an underground fire destroyed Centralia.
• Centralia Visit, July 1999 - Tom Gryn's page about his visit to Centralia, complete with pictures and descriptions.
• The Unforgettable Fire: Centralia, Pennsylvania's Eternal Flame - Failure Magazine's interview with Lamar Mervine, mayor of Centralia.

Byrnesville

• Byrnesville, PA - Mike Reilley's page on Brynesville, complete with pictures of the town before and after.
• Byrnesville, PA Resource Guide - Byrnesville was the town just south of Centralia, also abandoned because of the fire.

Ashland

• Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train - In Ashland, just south of Centralia. Tour a real Anthracite Coal Mine and ride an old-fashioned narrow gauge Steam Train.
• The Museum of Anthracite Mining - Also in Ashland, focuses on the history of anthracite coal mining industries and technology. It features a diverse collection of tools, machinery and photographs that depicts the mining of hard coal.