Coal was king in this neck of the woods. It isn’t anymore, but there are still a few spots that serve as reminders of those bygone days. One of them is Centralia, where an underground coal fire has been burning since the early 60s. There’s not much to see there, as one drives on SR 61, and just a handful of people still live there, down from its bustling days of 2700 or so. A trip through that area must be a sort of haunting pilgrimage through a ghost town– nature has reclaimed much of it, though a few remnants and reminders of a once-bustling place, where an underground fire may burn for another 200 years, still stand.
Two other spots are Eckley Miner’s Village- an authentic 19th-century coal town- and Lackawanna No. 9, an actual coal mine in Scranton, PA that people can still enter and tour.
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