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The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907. [1] It ranks as the worst coal mining disaster in Pennsylvanian history. [2] Many victims were of immigrants from central Europe, including Rusyns, Hungarians (including Slovaks from Gemer and ...
A coal mining ghost town, often known as Humphries after the owner of the mine. Claghorn: Indiana County: East Wheatfield Township: Along the Ghost Town Trail: Cokeville: Broad Fording Westmoreland County: Derry Township: Submerged a Pennsylvania Canal & coal mining ghost town, under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake. Cold Spring: Lebanon County
The Flight 93 National Memorial is a memorial built to commemorate the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was one of four aircraft hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001. The memorial is located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, with the vast majority in Stonycreek Township, [2] and with a small portion in Shade Township. [3]
The Logans Ferry Mine Tunnel consists of a pair of abandoned coal tunnels under the Allegheny River between Plum and Springdale, Pennsylvania in the United States. History. In 1919, West Penn Power acquired the land to build a power facility in Springdale, but did not have an adequate coal source. As a result, they leased coal-rich land on the ...
The Ghost Town Trail is a rail trail in Western Pennsylvania that runs 36 miles (58 km) between Black Lick, Indiana County, and Ebensburg, Cambria County. Established in 1991 on the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad, the trail follows the Blacklick Creek and passes through many ghost towns that were abandoned in the early 1900s with the decline of the local coal ...
Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
Gettysburg, the location of one of the most historic battles in the Civil War, is reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in Pennsylvania. [1] Many paranormal teams have traveled to Gettysburg from across the world in attempt to contact the dead, like Union and Confederate soldiers. The Devil's Den is reputed to be haunted by soldiers ...
Centralia mine fire. steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow, which covered the ground around it, shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below. The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal ...