Looking east. Braces on the standalone rowhome on left; a smoldering area and cemetery to right (south).
Posted on 05/08/2011 5:38:20 PM PDT by neverdem
Yeah, the rowhomes standing alone, with the braces installed to replace the support previously given by adjacent units, are odd. They are nearly all gone now.
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A pox on the worst of both their houses. Gummit was more than once in a position to put this pestilent blaze out but never quite got ‘round tuit.’ Why? Couldn’t the civic disaster be foreseen?
I live about 45 minutes from Centralia. About 25 years ago, I drove through at dusk-it was very eerie seeing the orange-blue flames coming from the cracks in the earth....
Looking east. Braces on the standalone rowhome on left; a smoldering area and cemetery to right (south).
I too am descended from the "leading edge" settlers. From the Mayflower in 1620 to upstate New York in 1650 to central Pennsylvania in 1760 to Ohio in 1820 to Illinois in 1840 to Arizona in 1875. Our ancestors were the most stubborn, fearless, and independent people of their times for 15 generations running. Sadly, now, there is nowhere left to go, and nothing to do but turn and fight with our backs to the wall.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks you for the pic.
I’m not sure I understand your post. There are 2 cemeteries still functioning in Doodletown (the Herbert & June family cemeteries), which still have burials - the first family there was the June family in 1762. Access to the cemeteries is controlled by park staff, who’ve locked off the only remaining road into the settlement.
Interesting; had everyone left at that time? I understand there were a few hanging on, resisting efforts to relocate them.
Thanks for the info & pic; what a strange situation.
None of those alive at the time of the Revolution are alive today. They are all dead.
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Understood.
That does sound creepy; the whole “ground collapsing” thing is a real deterrent to me taking the kids there.
We have a gang that headed up to Alaska in the 1920s, and another bunch in the 1930s. Some of them fly planes. Senator Stevens came from the old neighborhood (Brightwood) in Indianapolis. My dad remembered him as a kid.
I did take a picture of a toppled gravestone in another cemetery in the park; it lists two people with dates of birth & death, then a third one with just the date of birth (1844). It was a little unsettling to think that some 166 year-old woman (Lavinia Lewis) could still be prowling the park...
On a serious note, you get the impression when you visit some of these places that they won’t be visible for much longer as nature reclaims them and the stones sink further.
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