May 27 - Centralia Burns
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May 27 - Centralia Burns

2020-05-27

Can you imagine if the earth beneath your hometown caught fire and kept on burning for more than half a century?  That is what happened in Centralia, Pennsylvania. Today in Labor History, May 27, the year was 1962.  Centralia was a mining town with 2,700 residents, built above a rich vein of anthracite coal.

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