| Gwinners Pharmacy C1002 This is one of the scarcest towns to obtain for a collection of this state. I have Census records |
| Centralia, Pennsylvania Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. 1920 census 3,336 Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007 as a result of a 46-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania {Now A Ghost Town} In its prime, Centralia was a vibrant community with five hotels, seven churches, nineteen general stores, two jewelry stores, and about twenty-six saloons. Today it is a modern ghost town whose guts have been burned out, and whose main path of ingress has been closed and detoured. Residents are expected to return in 2016 to open a time capsule which was buried in the town in 1966, back when the town's future was still somewhat optimistic. Its future now is decidedly more grim… There are currently no further plans to extinguish the fire, and most modern maps no longer show a dot where Centralia once stood. |
