Byrnesville PA pages created by Mike Reilley.
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Byrnesville PA • Centralia PA     

Note about Mike Reilley's Site:  This site is currently under re-construction after AOL terminated the Hometown service and Mike's Remembering Byrnesville site along with it.  As we reconstruct the site here, some of the pages will be incomplete with broken images and missing elements.  In time the site will be re-built in its entirety. Thanks for your patience.  Read more at the bottom of this page about the reconstruction.
REMEMBERING ....
BYRNESVILLE, PA.
1856 ---- 1996 (COLUMBIA COUNTY)

Byrnesville was a small village in central Pennsylvania that was first inhabited in 1856 by people who came to work in the local coal mines. The people who resided here were very hard working, religious and patriotic. Although most of the people were of Irish descent, there were also people of other nationalities who lived here. Most people went to church at St. Ignatius in nearby Centralia.
 An underground mine fire that started in Centralia resulted in the relocation of all the people because of the smoke and fumes.
 
The last home was torn down in 1996.
 
( This page was prepared by:   MIKE  REILLEY )
 
Click on page three at the bottom of the page for a more detailed history!
 
(PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR THE PAGE TO LOAD BECAUSE IT CONTAINS PICTURES)
IF YOU WOULD LIKE MUSIC WHILE VIEWING ALL OF THESE PAGES TURN ON YOUR SOUND.
 

Click here to see St. Ignatius picture memories
 

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BYRNESVILLE AND WOULD LIKE TO PRESERVE IT'S HISTORY. ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD A COPY OF THEIR PICTURES OR HAS ANY COMMENTS COULD E-MAIL AT                   MPREIL@AOL.COM
 
NEW !!!  PICTURES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES FROM BYRNESVILLE PAST AND THE BROWN AND BYRNESVILLE REUNION.  CLICK HERE
 
 
BYRNESVILLE MANY YEARS AGO SAME VIEW AS IT LOOKS TODAY
   
Early Byrnesville ( Click to see enlarged view) LAST DAYS OF LOWER BYRNESVILLE
   
BYRNESVILLE IN THE 1950'S SAME VIEW AS IT LOOKS TODAY
   
BYRNESVILLE LOOKING SOUTH
CLICK HERE TO SEE ENLARGED VIEW		 BYRNESVILLE LOOKING SOUTH TODAY
   
THREE HOMES BEING TORN DOWN SAME VIEW AS IT LOOKS TODAY
   
SHRINE ON THE HILLSIDE. BUILT BY MY MOM AND DAD HILLSIDE VIEW OF BYRNESVILLE
   
BYRNESVILLE LOOKING FROM HILLSIDE
 PHOTO BY DONALD SPIELES		 SHRINE
   
MY HOME GOING DOWN LAST HOME THAT REMAINED IN BYRNESVILLE. TORN DOWN IN 1996
 
These pages about Byrnesville were created by Mike Reilley and were originally hosted under AOL's Hometown site under the address hometown.aol.com/mpreil.  When AOL abruptly terminated the hometown sites, Offroaders.com assisted Mike in restoring his site from archived web pages, cache pages, backups and other resources to restore the memory of Byrnesvillle PA and to give his pages a place to live.  Special thanks also goes to Robert Showalter who had taken the initiative to make an offline copy of Mike Reilley's site thinking that AOL may someday discontinue free hometown site services.  To contact Mike Reilley, you can email him here: MPREIL@AOL.COM.  Mike has begun rebuilding his site under Verizon's Mysite service at this web address: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzermnw3  Visit his site to see his latest updates.
  
Byrnesville, Pennsylvania - Byrnesville was a small community location just south of the town of Centralia Pennsylvania.   Byrnesville was completely dismantled by 1996 due to the effects of the Centralia Mine Fire.  Read more about Byrnesville Here.