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Centralia Pennsylvania
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A 2005 Photo Documentary
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| Photos of an August 2005 trip to Centralia PA - The goal
of this trip was to
create a photographical document of Centralia as it is today. Many
of these images are "off the beaten path" with
perspectives of streets that were once lined with homes, that
today see very little traffic any more. Many of the
photos are aspects and elements of everyday life that link the
past with what is most striking about Centralia, that which is
missing. Elements like sidewalks, curbs, public water,
cut power lines and front steps to homes that have long since
been razed. Today Centralia is a grid-work of streets
with only a few remaining homes scattered across town.
And the ever present fog of burning coal mines beneath the
town that a brought an end to this small, hard working Pennsylvania
community.
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PA 61 south. Through Mt. Carmel and along a stretch of
highway lined with active strip mines. 4 miles south
of Mt. Carmel, you enter the Borough of Centralia.
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You pass a few homes. Old, crumbling sidewalks line
the streets. The fields of grass and weeds on either
side once had home after home along them.
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The surrounding photos are of what was once a center of
activity. A basketball court. The old wooden
bench still stands. A large unlit lamp post
leans. In the distance, a swing set.
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Street after overgrown street that lead
nowhere.
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Above, the
foundation of a home
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Deserted streets. Empty sidewalks.
Electric poles that once supplied electricity to hundreds
homes only a few short decades ago.
This page of photos is from the
northwest corner of town.
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