Centralia, PA - Bell at War Memorial (Legacy)
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N 40° 48.140 W 076° 20.452
18T E 386893 N 4517679
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Waymark Code: WM24MC
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2007
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This bell was located in Centralia at the war memorial. The inscription on the bell read "JONES & COMPANY, FOUNDERS, TROY N.Y., 1869"
Centralia is located in Columbia County, PA and has been on fire since 1962 when a fire was started in a garbage dump over an open coal seam. Since then the town has been evacuated and many buildings destroyed. Today less than 5 families remain.
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