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 THE LAST DAYS OF THE VILLAGE OF BYRNESVILLE.
 
Most people that left Byrnesville because of the Centralia mine fire were born and raised in the village and had spent 50 years of their life there.
 
Leaving behind a house they worked and cared for all those years, a house where their children were born and where their ancestors lived and died was not easy.
 
It was especially hard to see a bulldozer destroy the building that contained all those memories.
 
Here are some pictures of some of these Byrnesville buildings just before and after they were demolished.  (Mike Reilley)
 

The demolition of
St. Ignatius Church, Centralia, Pa.
 


MY HOME GOING DOWN
 
 
 
 

BEFORE
AFTER
   

AFTER
   

BEFORE
AFTER
 
AFTER
     
BEFORE GOING  DOWN DOWN
     

DEMOLITION  STARTED
DOWN
   
MORE  PICTURES  OF  HOMES  BEING  DEMOLISHED
     
The demolition of
St. Ignatius Church, Centralia, Pa.		    
     
BYRNESVILLE LOOKING SOUTH
CLICK HERE TO SEE ENLARGED VIEW		 BYRNESVILLE LOOKING SOUTH TODAY
   
   
BYRNESVILLE LOOKING FROM HILLSIDE
 PHOTO BY DONALD SPIELES		 HILLSIDE VIEW OF BYRNESVILLE
   
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.