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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
- 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.
- 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).
- Centralia, Pennsylvania - An offroad site with a collection of pictures they've taken themselves (and many they've taken from other Centralia sites on the web...)
- Centralia: An Unofficial Tourism Booklet - Michael J. Scholtes, the unofficial head
of the Centralia Tourism Department, has put together a collection of pictures from Centralia.
- Centralia Visit, July 1999 - Tom Gryn's page about his visit to Centralia, complete with pictures and descriptions.
- 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.
- Byrnesville, PA Resource Guide - Byrnesville was the town just south of Centralia, also abandoned because of the fire.
- Byrnesville, PA - Mike Reilley's page on Brynesville, complete with pictures of the town before and after.
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