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Depopulated borough in the United States
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Centralia is a borough and ghost town in the Alleghenies and Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, atop a mountain ridge north of Ashland and east of Mount Carmel.
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This small town located near Centralia has also been abandoned. There is now just a clearing - all the buildings have been demolished.
The only modern building left in Centralia, this building was constructed in 1978. Local emergency services are based here.
This road is wider than most of the roads in Centralia because the railroad track once ran along here, but has since been removed.
An ornate Ukrainian Catholic Church with distinctive domes and stained glass; the parish was established Aug. 15, 1911 to serve the immigrant community. Designated as a place of pilgrimage in 2016 by the primate of the worldwide Ukrainian Catholic Church, a local congregation of about fifty people still gathers here from other nearby towns. In the words of Matthew 16:18, "I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I shall build my church; the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it."
Centralia is two miles north of Ashland, Pennsylvania and can be reached on state highways 54 and 61. Part of the highway between Ashland and Centralia has been rerouted around the site of the fire.
Read in the guideYou can drive around the highways. Most of the surface streets, however, are in poor condition.
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