When we made our first trip to Centralia in the spring of 1999 this hill side is where most of the visible smoke and steam was coming from.

We took a closer look.

Walking carefully we took a look around.

Another of the many venting cracks in the ground.

We were told that a church stood somewhere near this location.

Here is another shot of a venting hole around which rocks were too warm to touch.

These venting gases around these rocks were so super heated that at some point they had caught the fallen trees on fire.

Less that 15 years ago there were homes on these blocks.

The old church.
Photo courtesy of:
Karl Xydexx Jorgensen
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/centralia.htm

Notice the few remaining row homes in the background.

An old shack.

Cut wires that once fed electricity to rows of homes.

The grim looking image above, taken February of 1999, was submitted by Alfonse A. Di Giacomo, Jr