Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania - Centralia - Pithole

[jeff of pa]

• Burning Curiosity About Burning Town Tourists: A university professor in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, will give a lecture on March 18 inspired by the burning town of Centralia. “I’m interested in ‘fringe tourism,’” he told the Daily Item. “I want to consider what people get out of driving to the middle of nowhere to look at a landscape of weed-choked lots and rubble.” If Centralia is considered “fringe” in Pennsylvania, then what would the academics label the people who visit Pithole?


Centralia
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1084



Daily Item
http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_065003150.html


Pithole
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/16920

 

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[deepskyal]

I guess I'd have to be labled a detectorist....

I visited Pithole some years back....detector in trunk...only to see the big sign saying "No Metal Detecting" (Only place I ever saw one)

I dont remember there being a museum when I was there...but we are talking maybe 20 years ago. I liked that little mock village in the article.

When you walk down the "roads?"...all the impressions are still in the ground where the houses sat.
They do/did keep it very well mowed and manicured. A detectorist's dream ghost town hunt...well at the time I thought so.

Al

 

[jeff of pa]

I had a Hunch (Fear) Pithole was Off Limits

 

[jeff of pa]

Tourists flock to Centralia to take photos, post video

Although Centralia is now home to just 10 people, tourism in the area is booming.

The borough was largely vacated in the years after a mine beneath it caught fire. The blaze broke out in the 1960s and in the 1980s, the federal government offered residents money to buy their homes and move to someplace safer. Some stayed, but most vacated.

Despite the area’s history, most tourists who venture to Centralia are often more interested in posing for unique photographs in the barren town, said Dr. Edward Slav- ishak, assistant professor of history at Susquehanna University.

http://www.republicanherald.com/art...90319.a.pg1.pr19centralia_s1.2382766_top4.txt