Travels by Carriage

Centralia.

Nearly everyone who's into weird history has heard of it, but how much do you really know?

I've scoured the web to share with you the most comprehensive timeline I could create, sprinkled with the strangest bits of oddities and trivia I could find.

Today we take on the town that inspired Silent Hill?
Well, kind of.

Next stop: Centralia, P.A.

#history #TrueStory #Centralia #pennsylvania #CentraliaPA #Abandoned #Abandonedplaces #GhostTown #MineFire #Mining #MollyMaguires #SilentHill #Curse #Cursed #Trivia #Podcast #Odd #Strange #Unusual #Fire #Coal #CoalMining #CoalFire #Historystories

(SPOILERS BELOW)

Sources:

• Travels by Carriage Logo
  • Mockofun Creator
  • https://www.mockofun.com/
• Centralia Wikipedia Page
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
• Real Life Ghost Town That Inspired Silent Hill
  • https://www.looper.com/266652/the-real-life-ghost-town-that-inspired-silent-hill/#:~:text=According%20to%20an%20interview%20with,a%20good%20old%20garbage%20fire.
• Centralia PA Mine Fire
  • https://www.centraliapa.org/
• Offroaders.com - Amazing historical photos of Centralia in its heyday
  • https://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/historical.htm
• Minding a legacy of faith In an empty town, a shrine still shines By Kristin E. Holmes INQUIRER STAFF WRITER. POSTED: October 21, 2008
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20140204071259/http://articles.philly.com/2008-10-21/news/25263632_1_shrine-mine-fire-byrnesville
• The Legend of the Molly Maguires
  • https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/legend-molly-maguires
• Molly Maguires Wiki
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires
• St. Ignatius Church, Centralia P.A.
  • http://www.byrnesville.com/saintignatiuschurchcentraliapa/
• The Last Church Standing In Centralia
  • https://militarybruce.com/the-silent-hill-church-last-church-standing-in-centralia/
• PA Department of Environment Safety
  • https://files.dep.state.pa.us/mining/Abandoned%20Mine%20Reclamation/AbandonedMinePortalFiles/Centralia/CentraliaFrequentlyAskedQuestions.pdf
• Byrnesville PA Website hosted by former resident
  • http://byrnesville.com/
• Centralia Mine Fire
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

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