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.
Old pictures from the Anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania.    
This page made by Mike Reilley     MPREIL@AOL.COM
 
 

 Early strip mine operation

Blasting at the strip mine

 

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
 
 
 
 

Today's giant machine

 
   
Miners attempting to rescue others miners trapped because of a cave in at
a"BOOTLEG" mining operation in the Byrnesville area.  Date around late 1930's.
   

Cardboard disks that were used to identify the
coal company that sold the coal. These were
usually put in the prepared coal.
Copy of old paycheck from 1914.
Earnings were :  121 hours @  .183 =  $22.14		  
   
RELIC OF THE PAST IN BYRNESVILLE
This wash house was part of the Locust Run Coal Company. The building was used as a garage, a lamp house that serviced the lamps that miners used in the mines and as a place for miners to wash after they were finished work.

 
   
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More pictures and the
population of coal region
towns in 1950
   
 
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.