Centralia, Pennsylvania was nearly entirely evacuated following a coal mine fire, burning beneath the town since 1962. finally they all went. I find them intriguing as I went to a few out west. Then there’s the bunkers. He was born in Saint Michael in 1917. Lumber City- Once a small town near Curwensville, Pa (Clearfield County). Anybody who hasn’t visited this lost Town, is missing out. The land is part of state game lands, Worked many times around Barclay reclaiming the mine lands… The cemetery is creepy, graves that were swallowed by the mine cave-ins… Many old foundations throughout the woods…. One foundation is octagonal, it was probably a silo. I remember it when they were trying to get the people to move out. Another town in the same game lands is Yellow Springs, a small mining town near the mountain top. Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to 63 by 1990, to only five in 2017 —a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Please click below to consent to the use of this technology while browsing our site. The area just went through a major clean up because unexploded ordinance was found there. My friend’s Italian immigrant family lived up there and ran a boarding house. Other than the bunkers and a cemetery, though, I don’t believe there is anything left. Walked the Cemeteries. Ebensburg: 40.481565,-78.726928 424 Prave Street Ebensburg, PA 15931. I used to drive through Centralia on way to Shamokin,Pa where my husband used to live. I know the name but can’t think of it. The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust. What about Eldora Park in Washington County, in Carroll Township between Donora and Monongahela. Petroleum Centre was founded in 1866 and was once home to as many as 3,000 people. I don’t know where in PA. This 18th-century village outlasted the canal, being abandoned in the late 20th century with the construction of the adjacent Limerick Nuclear Power Plant. That’s a great spot. I recall knowing folks from Helvetia heard they took it off the map a few decades ago. It’s where Indian Creek flows into the Tough. There were around 8 houses still standing and we went into a couple of them. [2] Frick’s Locks is considered a modern ghost town and, although private property, attracts visitors. I’ve never heard anything about this place since. This eerily well-preserved coal-mining town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie. My Dad grew up in a town called Ralphton, near Somerset, PA. I don’t know where he is living now but the Last I knew I think it was Charleroi. Back in the 1960’s, my church group visited Cook’s Forest in Northwestern, Pa. A group of us took one of the trails and got lost in a ghost town. I thought about including them, but people live there and it’s run as a well-maintained historical site, so it’s not really a ghost town in my opinion. One terminus of the Old loggers path. The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia. GHOST TOWN TRAIL MAIN STEM TRAIL HEADS. The foundations of all the houses are still visible, some with a bit more. It had rides, a dance dance hall and was on the railroad tracks and people from the Mon Valley went there by train for picnic and enjoyment. A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire. Centralia, Columbia County. Houses all gone except 3 and the three houses have families living in them whom are relatives.This town is in Cambria County. If you walk through the forested trails of the Scotia Barrens, you might even find more hidden ruins of this ghost town. The Old Stone (Lutheran) church is on part of the Ordnance area later taken for the Allenwood Federal Prison, and is open on special occasions to the public. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. You used to be able to access it via the Hawkins Hollow road, but that was closed to the public 15 years ago or so. All that’s left are foundations and a cemetery as well as the adits to some of the coal mines. Homes are still standing. Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. Helvetia was a small coal mining and power plant company town in Clearfield County. My mom grew up in Laurel Run, PA. Ghosttowns.com-the best source of information on ghost towns in the U.S. Ghost towns are listed by state & include biographies, pictures, and other detailed ghost town info. I have walked that area many times. We lived in the poconos, I’m from Luzerne County. Orviston was a brick making company town too. Correction: Landrus is between Arnot and Morris, PA. Morris Run is over beyond Blossburg, so it is on the eastern side of US Rt 15. Help spread the word. It was probably one of the most amazing places I visited time and time again! We live among ghost towns — little hamlets that once prospered thanks to natural resources such as coal, timber and hickory bark. When my husband was still living, we loved going to Landrus and Fallbrook. Curtin, PA. My 2x great Grandfather was born there. To learn more or withdraw consent, please visit our cookie policy. My dad grew up in Onalinda and Beaverdale. Today, Concrete City sits abandoned and regularly draws in locals and visitors alike. Eastern State Penitentiary. However, by 1873, the town was essentially abandoned. It left a very special place in my heart. An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one. Concrete City is an abandoned town in PA’s Luzerne County. Laquin on Barcley Mountain in Bradford County is abandoned and use to be a booming logging community there’s a cemetery thats supposedly haunted by the people that died there from the plague. By December 1865, 20,000 people called Pithole, PA home. Of all the places on this list, Yellow Dog Village might be the most like what you … Graduated from Adams High School. The trail was originally established in 1991 when the Kovalchick Salvage Company donated 16 miles of the former Ebensburg & Black Lick Railroad to Indiana County. On of the women active in the cam[p was Ruth Rockwell. The Company’s mining Engineer Alexander Rae immediately set out planning a town by laying outs lots and streets for a settlement. A little-known ghost town in Pennsylvania. Crum in shade Township pa you can find many foundations remaining and the famous haunted Crum cemetery the town had supposedly burned down. I lived in PA most of my early years and some of my adult life, never heard about the ghost towns. They forced everyone to move out of their homes so they could build the limerick power plant. As the oil boom began to wain, banks collapsed, and a fire hit the community, Pithole’s population quickly collapsed with only 2,000 residents in the community by December 1866. Fall Brook was established in 1860 by the Fallbrook Coal Company. It leaves you with a Feeling of peace yet sadness at the same time! There are two old cemeteries at the end of road, some of the head stone date back to the 1700’s. They are currently doing mine reclimation in the area. Paranormal Pennsylvania is alive and well -- if that’s an appropriate phrase to use. Trail Description A National Recreation Trail, the Ghost Town Trail is named for the numerous old mining towns along the corridor that were served by the Ebenburg & Backlick Railroad and … Do not trespass otherwise.). Thanks to Pennsylvania’s long industrial history, the state is filled with communities that have come and gone throughout the years. My great great grandparents lived there after arriving from England. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township. I always wondered why the people left and and what their lives were like in their heyday. The community even hosted President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871. Today, the ruins of the community can be found in St. Anthony’s Wilderness along a great rail trail. There are some surviving houses, a mill and a museum commemorating the small community. I was thrilled to see Pithole on the list! It was wiped out by a flood, many of the villagers were killed in the flood and it was eventually abandoned. The Reformed Church and Cemetery are still standing. By far the most well-known ghost town in the entire state, Centralia has been nearly abandoned since the underground mine fire that broke out there in 1962. Yellow Dog Village. Can’t say that it’s my favorite only because it’s the only abandoned place I’ve ever been to and that would be Centralia Pennsylvania. It’s not always accessible, but it’s a neat place to visit when it is. There are some old foundations and a cemetery. The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. Passed front of house.Could see smoke stacks. 1960’s due to the danger of the fires. While much of this Pennsylvania ghost town has disappeared, there are still remnants if you know where to look for them. The most prominent remaining feature of the town is the cemetery, which is eerie in its desolation. Been inside the bunkers. It is so sad now. Rocky Glen Park also known as: Ghost Town in the Glen and many more names (see below) Moosic (Avoca), Lackawanna County, PA Rocky Glen was originally spelled Rocky Glenn. I live within miles of there still, as I also grew up within miles from there. They tie Alvira to Alamagordo. I haven’t been there in some time so I’m not sure if anyone ever cleared it for new construction. McIntyre, near Ralston, was a community of 300 homes that was founded in 1870 and abandoned near 1900. Today, Pithole is just an empty field near Oil Creek State Park. There are also still some foundations there. Robinson/Robindale was an old factory town near Seward west of Johnstown that was abandoned after the Flood of 1977. Truly a PA ghost town because of Limerick. Winner will be selected at random on 01/01/2021. Now it's nothing more than a smoldering ghost town that's been burning for half a century. There is still a small church and remains of the company store. The Ghost Town Trail, a 46-mile rail-trail rich in the railroading and coal mining heritage of Cambria and Indiana counties, has been named Pennsylvania’s 2020 Trail of the Year. Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. MapMuse - Find your place. So are traces of the streets. Opened as a state-of-the-art prison in 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary in … Today it can be accessed via bike or walking the Indian Creek Valley Trail. In the 1970’s, we used to ride horses thru the woods to the top of the tipple at Landrus. Some are easily seen from the SGL roads that you can walk or bike along. Over the next few years, teenagers would claim this as their new hangout space, running up and down the streets causing damage to structures – smashing windows and breaking in doors. The paved main street (complete with yellow pavement paint) can still be seen, along with several foundations and the remnants of the town cemetery including some old grave stones left behind. Masten in Lycoming county. Is it still around? As you go under the under pass and up the hill near Horseshoe Curve there was a town called Glenwhite in Blair County you can only see ruminants of foundations. Thanks for your help. Turning an old strip mine into the town dump probably seemed like a good idea at the time but in hindsight, it destroyed the town. Coal strip mining area. The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park. You really need to revisit the area. Here are a few of my favorite Pennsylvania ghost towns and a bit of the history behind them. In I believe it is either Prospect park or Ridly in PA. is a hidden town. Then there’s one on top of a mountain near Ralston, PA. While nearly all of the community has been torn down, it’s still interesting to drive the city streets and see the curbs, sidewalks, and stairwells that lead nowhere. They also have at least one day a year, where they open it up for complete tours. The main road leading to the west side of the gamelands is named Elvia Road. The largest still-remaining area consists of several concrete buildings that once served the mining operations, as well as the old railroad grade. Buildings included in the town were: a dozen or so houses, a church, a graveyard, a couple of sawmills, a brush block factory, a lumber camp, a post office, Norman English’s brickyard and a schoolhouse. The Baptist Church, just outside the area seized for the Ordnance grounds is still a working church. Land speculators and would-be oil barons quickly scooped up the land and a town as built around them. Sadly, the community has been almost completely lost with only the old bank steps still visible from the road. Yellow Dog Village was constructed in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in the first decades of the 20th century to support the mines that were right outside of town. The park has created a walking tour around the former center of town that showcases the history of the area. Yes it’s all that’s left. Way more fascinating and with much more to see than Centralia. Now part of Tobyhanna state part, it was used for Army artilery training from WW1 through WW2. There isn’t much left of Rausch Gap, though there are a few building foundations that can be found as well as a cemetery. A lot of the kids went to college and never returned,and others left for jobs . Or is there really something there? I highly recommend heading west to east, up mountain first. Of all the places on this list, Yellow Dog Village might be the most like what you think of when you think of ghost towns. How could I get permission from the owner of Yellow Dog to visit>. You can still find the original maps online and many foundations survived. Pithole City. No purchase necessary. Based in the state capital of Harrisburg, Jim frequently travels around Pennsylvania and has visited, written about, and photographed all 67 counties in the state. The two counties developed a 36-mile-long trail along the old railroad line that passes near 10 ghost towns from Saylor Park in Indiana County to Ebensburg in Cambria County. He has also traveled to more than 30 different countries around the world. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). The village on about 18 acres of land were listed as a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Do you have a favorite Pennsylvania ghost town that we didn’t include on this list? Crumb Pa was once a logging town. There are definitely foundations, steps, the Stone Church, and 2 cemeteries left from Alvira. Abandoned, Pennsylvania, Towns, Urban Exploration January 27, 2015 February 23, 2019 The Eerie Abandoned Neighborhood of Lincoln Way Check out everything new thing new going on over at my Instagram – @scrap_brain All Brands. I use to go to ghost town on a picnic and on rides. It, six cemeteries and not sure how many bunkers are all that is left of Alvira and the ordnance. It was a logging town as well as an ice farming town that supplied ice to hospals along the east coast. Complete list and interactive map of Ghost Towns across Pennsylvania including address, hours, phone numbers, and website. (Note that permission is needed before exploring Yellow Dog Village. Pithole’s history was shortlived, however. There was one by allenwood pa it’s now the state game lands the us government came in and took the land from them in ww2 to make TNT the bunkers you can still go it’s right by where the allenwood federal prison is i have heard there is still buildings ba k there but have not seen anything YET!!!! Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government. If Centralia looks familiar to you then it is probably because it was used … Atlas Obscura and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our website to personalise ads, support social media features, and analyse our traffic. I was born in a small coal mining town, Madera, Pa… Before the 1970’s it was thriving two grocery stores, two 5&10, bank, gas station, Farms, post office, dentist, doctor office, theater, schools a Moose, VFW, Hotel, Insurance business, two beauty shops, coal tipple and many working mines and Sewing factory and other people with small home skills like shoe cobbler. If remember right we went swing too, I think. The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town … By the census of 1870, less than 250 people lived in Pithole. was founded during the oil boom in northwestern Pennsylvania. There are many haunted houses in the area. In the late 50’s and 60’s it was a girl scout camp. Phantasmagorical particulars: You might need oxygen to bring this ghost town back to life. Onnalinda in Pennsylvania is an old coal mining town. They forced out the residents,my great grandmother had a good sized chicken farm there .where my grandmother grew up.cemetery is definitely haunted. What about Wierham know my dad used to go there for groceries with parents in horse and buggy. Her son Richard Rockwell has all the info on the park and the many changes it went through. Warnertown in NE Pa. Centralia, Pennsylvania was once a bustling mining center, but a hidden, underground fire has turned it into a smoldering ghost town. It will always be my number one place. At Rausch Gap there are cellar holes near the rail trail on the uphill side you can find by following the old road bed that goes past the stream mitigation project upstream from the rail trail bridge and you can find the foundations of a railroad engine repair shed. The community flourished, growing to as many as 1,000 residents, but was gone by 1910. Also Orvistan which I believe was once a lumbering community as well. No jobs to bring them back to the area the town was left with aging people or others who were to poor to leave or some who could find a job. Not sure if one can go up the road anymore as the road is fading away. How about Fallbrook in Bradford or Tioga county. Dilltown - 7452 Route 403, Dilltown, PA 15929 - Parking, restrooms, picnic facilities, nearby trail shop and bed & breakfast, water. It was constructed in the early 20th century as company housing for the DL&W Railroad. Lived within walking distance of Crumb…still old logging railroad right-Of-Ways and a few foundations, McIntyre was an old mining town in the late 1800s. While many of these ghost towns in PA have completely disappeared, a few still exist in the woods and along the roadways of the state. Printable Maps. Centralia is a ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Another vote for Fricks Locks. The Ghost Town Trail Cambria and Indiana counties decided to turn interest in ghost towns into a tourist attraction. All rights reserved. Masten I’m pretty sure was lumber…both were good sized towns with nothing left now but a few foundations and some old roads. The last few remaining residents finally vacated the village in 2011, leaving the entire place an eerie, quiet ghost town. Today, the town’s owner is doing his best to maintain the site and turn it into a historic village, and a few people do live in the community. Let us know in the comments below. I don’t know if this is considered a ghost town, but there was once a village at Hickory Run State Park. Another ghost town is Fricks Lock in Chester County. Centralia, Pennsylvania has turned into a ghost town due to an underground coal fire that started in 1962. The town of Centralia can trace its origin to 1842 when the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company bought the land with the aim of mining its coal deposit. I think Fallbrook was. In Saint Anthony’s Wilderness you can also find foundations and cellar holes in Rattling Run on the old stagecoach road accessible from the rail trail via an old incline or from the Appalachian trail, inside state game lands (the same as Rausch Gap). Rausch Gap is another abandoned Pennsylvania town that got its start as a coal mining community. The old streets of Pithole are regularly mowed, allowing visitors to move through this ghost town. Petroleum Centre is another oil-boom community that once thrived in northwestern Pennsylvania. I now live in Nevada, but I worked at Pithole as a tour guide when I was in high school many years ago. At its peak, Pithole featured more than 50 hotels, three churches, the world’s first oil pipeline, a newspaper, a theater, and a railroad. Fall Brook in Tioga County some foundations left and a cemetery that is pretty cool lots of immigrants from Europe buried there whole families from a Scarlet fever epidemic ! The Presbyterian Church cemetery, one of the oldest in the county is still there, with headstones back to colonial times. A person can sense the distress when one walks into an empty old house. The town was vacated several years ago so the could build Curwensville Dam where boating and summertime activities are carried in now. Offer subject to change without notice. We live among ghost towns — little hamlets that once prospered thanks to natural resources such as coal, timber and hickory bark. Many did for work. Would visit family, with my Grandmom.Up in mountains.Stream in front house Railroad. Above Beaverdale PA. All Interests. My father worked in the power plant and we lived in a company house. © Copyright 2013-2020 Uncovering Media, LLC - All Rights Reserved, Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike in Central PA. Find a unique place to stay in Pennsylvania on Airbnb! Located near State College, Scotia was once a mining community that supported both the nearby iron industry and, later, Carnegie Steel operations. The Ghost Town Trail starts in Black Lick, PA, at Saylor Park located at 1284 Old Indiana Road. The Stone Church is located in the center of the White Deer Valley, and was a focal point for the communities at that time. The Ghost Town Trail has grown and evolved over the years into one of the best trails in Pennsylvania. My aunt lived in Bull Run . You can yell inside and the echo is something else. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. Today the land where Petroleum Centre once sat is now part of Oil Creek State Park. Pithole became known as a rough and tumble town reminiscent of the communities of the Wild West. Nothing but some gravestones left. Once the coal was mined from the area, the town's residents left, and it became a ghost town by 1900. Even as the mines closed, the community continued until it finally became abandoned in the early 2000s. The community of Pithole (Charming name, huh?) I just decided not to include it since there really isn’t anything from the town left there, minus the cemetery. Site of a small logging town, saw mill and CCC camp. Barclay, in Bradford County, was a coal mining community in the late 1800s. I think the County owned it then but I don’t about now. Take a walk in the woods along Pennsylvania’s Ghost Town Trail, and you’ll find traces of old streets and fragments of felled buildings hidden among the trees. McIntyre, near Ralston, was a community of 300 homes that was founded in 1870 and abandoned near 1900. 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Coal mining town & logging.Thats what my Grandfather did.Lost his thumb in Saw mill.Stayed in Gettysburg, Allentown, Coatsville,Burnham.ect.Family came to Pa. from Stockholm. The round bunkers alone are something to see as some of them are opened and you can walk inside. It included a … Within a few decades, Centralia was nearly abandoned, though a few hearty souls still live there. Today, the land that was once Scotia has been reclaimed by nature and is now part of State Game Lands 176 in Centre County. Thanks for sharing. While there are plenty of abandoned places in PA, these ghost towns take it to another level with many interesting spots to explore. Brands Store locators for top name brands and retail stores . Also, are there several small stone markers where the residence lived? What about the old amuzment park village in Shohola pa ? The Dilltown Access Area of the Ghost Town Trail is located on Route 403 one mile north of Route 22. Harry, is there a boy scout camp on the other side of the stream? The town was officially condemned in 1992 and many residents were forced to move somewhere else. Not sure what if anything is still there, but I know Laurel Run had to be evacuated in the (early?) Thank you for sharing them. A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong. I have read that the fires did/do burn from underground, as I understand it? Keep up the great work. In 1924, an attempt was made to demolish the community, but the strong construction made this difficult enough that it was never done. The first nuclear waste from the atom bomb program was stored in several of the Alvira bunkers. Data Sales. There is not much left but some foundations, sidewalks an old railroad tressle. I think there is an old cemetery there. There are no buildings there. The town came into existence in 1830 when John and Susanna Frey came from Monroe County, PA to start a farm in the wilderness. Barcly MTN had a old coal town the cemetery is still there, Landrus, pa between arnot and morris run pa. Appetizers: Prime Bites – Bite size pieces of prime rib, lightly breaded and deep fried, served with horsey sauce $11.00: Seafood Sampler: Juicer Special: Breaded cod, scallops and shrimp $11.00: Buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks, haystack onion rings, and chicken fingers $13.00 Following a path that goes downhill by the creek you can pass flat stone foundations for the buildings from a farm including the well and by going further you reach the old cemetery. Heshbon - 10485 Route 259, Blairsville, PA 15717 - Parking, portable restroom in season. Laurel Run, PA My dad was born there and mine fires still burn today from what I have read. Proceed at your own caution if you opt to check out this site. Did we all have a hallucination? Two villages in Centre County is Poe Patty a lumbering community, on Penns Creek in Seven Mountains, which is now a state park. Peale, PA, Clearfield County. (Forest Hills). There were still plates on the table as though they got up from dinner and left everything behind. Do you have anything on (West) Winfield, PA? There is a turn out off the road in the valley from Arnot to Morris. Located in Columbia County in the state’s northeastern corner, Centralia was a bustling coal mining community until the coal seam below the borough caught on fire in 1962. Internet Research. See. Check out Eastern State Penitentiary in Philly, Carrie Furnace in Pittsburgh, and the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike in Central PA. Jim Cheney is the creator of UncoveringPA.com. 'Graffiti Highway' - Pennsylvania's oddest tourist attraction is the latest casualty in the coronavirus pandemic. Looking for more abandoned places to visit? Peale near winburne, pa is a cool spot I used to hunt in. 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