Centralia, Pennsylvania
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Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 beca
Cemetery at Centralia
A warning sign in Centralia
Centralia area showing conditions before mine fire
A small part of the Centralia mine fire as it appeared after being exposed during an excavation in 1969
Molly Maguires
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It is alleged that the Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American
Centralia, Pennsylvania
…borough in 1866. Its principal employer was the anthracite coal industry. Alexander Rae, the town's founder, was murdered in his buggy by members of the Molly Maguires on October 17, 1868, during a trip between Centralia and Mount Carmel. Three men were eventually convicted of his death and were hanged in the county…
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly
Pinkerton Detective Agency detective James McParland, in the 1880s
Franklin B. Gowen, District Attorney for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Yost's tombstone in Tamaqua's Odd Fellows Cemetery, which states that he had been "assassinated"