7 Ghost Towns in Pennsylvania I Bet You Don't Know!

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  • Explore 7 forgotten towns in Pennsylvania that time left behind. From eerie ghost towns to abandoned places with rich histories, this video uncovers the mysteries and secrets of Pennsylvania's most intriguing abandoned towns. Discover the stories behind these hidden gems and why they were left deserted. Perfect for history buffs, urban explorers, and travel enthusiasts.
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  • @matthewbeishline4353
    @matthewbeishline4353 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bud, first off, a few inaccuracies in the video. The biggest of all however, is your pronunciation of Shenandoah. Anyone from here knows it is pronounced "Chendoh" , I mean 462 dafuk.

  • @saddletramp6935
    @saddletramp6935 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Pithole. Almost every town that had a steel mill, coal mine or oil business has been in decline for years. And not just in Pennsylvania. All along the rust belt.

    • @Buddha-of8fk
      @Buddha-of8fk หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Love to see folks trying to find Pithole or other towns like Trunkyville or Oleopolis. Tidioute was a lot bigger than it is now.

  • @billtownbiker
    @billtownbiker 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Lock Haven really???? You should have done Renovo. Lock Haven is a college town and was hardly ever known for it's lumber. I've lived in both Renovo and Lock Haven. Lock Haven is the reason Renovo was forgotten about. Oppression.

    • @dukemexplorer481
      @dukemexplorer481 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lock Haven at one time was a lumber city as it was second to Williamsport with logs in the river and millionaires row on west water street was built back in the fat, lumber mills was also thru the area
      Boom island was named for the lumber industry at this spot the cribs left the logs put there. I would say the logging boom was the city then, but another thing is when the logs crashed together the sound went thru the bald eagle valley.
      One of two booms in the west branch of the river
      The three out of four(fourth time it was Keystone which was beech Creek and surrounded area)times Clinton county and Lock Haven made it to the Little League world series was due being sponsored by the lumber industry

  • @davegallo8166
    @davegallo8166 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    There is only one "town" in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg. Everything else is boroughs, cities, & townships

    • @CharlesD4rwin
      @CharlesD4rwin หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@davegallo8166 true but also incredibly pedantic

    • @davegallo8166
      @davegallo8166 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@CharlesD4rwin video talks about towns in pa , there's only one and it's not mentioned , facts matter

    • @CharlesD4rwin
      @CharlesD4rwin หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davegallo8166 lol. Now you've jumped the shark. The word "town" has more meaning than pennsylvania's unique definitions. I believe you are correct that bloomsburg is the only municipality in PA chartered as a town, but clearly people calls bouroughs, cities and townships "towns" all the time. "facts matter" lol. Gtfoh. Many boroughs in PA (eg- quakertown, trexlertown etc) have town in the name you pedantic boob.

  • @jeffcrum22
    @jeffcrum22 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Being from the coal region especially Mount Carmel you're not showing accurate photos of the town

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      can you please elaborate which images are not accurate!?

    • @shanenice5380
      @shanenice5380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I used to lived closed to mount Carmel,from minersville pa

    • @luiszuluaga6575
      @luiszuluaga6575 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It’s unfortunate but true that we need to remember much of the content we view nowadays is AI generated. For instance, you may have noticed a lot of images had the disclaimer sorta off to the top corner. Anyways, the idea being they’re only trying to illustrate a point but I also know what you’re getting at. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @gregorycoates9643
      @gregorycoates9643 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My mother was born in Locust Gap, PA. Her parents were Irish immigrants. My grandfather was a coal miner.

    • @BZizzle
      @BZizzle หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      How can you say Centralia is a forgotten town? If anything, due to the internet, it's more well known now than ever.

  • @jerseymike4135
    @jerseymike4135 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    What happened to these old towns in Pennsylvania was the Democrat Party. Wherever they come into power, squalor invariably follows, close behind.

    • @BiGEv-jj9bh
      @BiGEv-jj9bh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100% correct

    • @John_Wick2024
      @John_Wick2024 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Brownsville is nearby... check out Monessen.. Ghost Town. Charleroi is close. Now invaded by 3rd world refugees.. another Democrat pride..

    • @bethdabruzzo7112
      @bethdabruzzo7112 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Democrats are mostly centralized in larger cities. Republicans are scattered throughout smaller towns & rural areas. Republicans don't know how to govern which is why cities in Pennsylvania thrive & towns fail. And it's the Democratic party, not the Democrat party. Stop listening to the pathological liar Trump.

    • @whosaidcate4034
      @whosaidcate4034 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That’s a hilarious take 😂. Boomer low information alert 🚨

    • @John_Wick2024
      @John_Wick2024 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Truth hurts. Now they are replacing what's left with 3rd world barbarians​@@whosaidcate4034

  • @almagottscheck864
    @almagottscheck864 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    7:39 There is a section of PA that is never mentioned. It starts in Meyerdale and ends at Maryland line. There are about 3 or 4 small towns that are barely hanging on. They are in order Meyesdale, Boyton , Coalrun, and Salsbury. They are all coal mine towns with very little mention anywhere. I know of this area because I was born in Meyersdale and lived in the other small towns.

  • @cactusdoge
    @cactusdoge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Mt carmel, Shenandoah and Centralia are all like within 15 miles of of each other.

    • @andrewschrim6676
      @andrewschrim6676 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, you are right.They treat the whole region like it's a throw away just lumping everyone together,but we are the "keystone." We are actually what "holds" everything together !

    • @gregkehres663
      @gregkehres663 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When coal use died out in favor of the convenience of oil,so did the entire anthracite coal region. The factories that produced everything from hats to shoes and shirts to dresses also went south or overseas.

  • @GreggObst
    @GreggObst หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I feel like this is mostly AI generated content based on keywords and little knowledge about these places went into this video. When talking about Shenandoah and the drying up of coal jobs for instance, you showed an image from Yellow Dog Village which is clear across the state. The inability to pronounce the Monongahela River correctly is making the research into this video dubious as well.

    • @TheAstilesus
      @TheAstilesus หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agree. And Shenandoah has become a drug infested nightmare with decaying houses. It certainly doesn't "shine."

    • @michaelallardyce1790
      @michaelallardyce1790 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The fire that started the coal vein on fire in Centralia was started at the town dump, and it caught the vein in the ground there. It didn't start in the mine.

  • @jamiepike6909
    @jamiepike6909 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Those AI representations are awful, don’t add anything.

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      we were just testing new thing. thank you for your response (surely will add something better in next vids)

  • @johnwesner
    @johnwesner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Fetterman destroyed braddock

    • @99sentcoins
      @99sentcoins หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was like that 20 years ago when I lived in N Braddock.
      Quit hating.

  • @desertdee1
    @desertdee1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yeah, moved all of our manufacturing, good paying jobs out of the country. So sad how they slowly destroyed our country.

  • @ocsrc
    @ocsrc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The mine fire is spreading and now threatening 3 other cities, especially Ashland and in 10 years that city will be gone as well because they will have to evacuate it

  • @danielfrancella5219
    @danielfrancella5219 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    McKeesport , Johnstown , Duquesne, and glassport. Any town along rte 837 , outside of Pittsburgh.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It shocked me how bad Johnstown is. My goodness. 😢

    • @danielfrancella5219
      @danielfrancella5219 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@yvonneplant9434 I stopped in Johnstown once. It was pretty bad.

    • @SummerLovesLilac
      @SummerLovesLilac 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I live in Johnstown💀

    • @danielfrancella5219
      @danielfrancella5219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SummerLovesLilac I live Ross township , Allegheny County.

    • @themopar426
      @themopar426 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@danielfrancella5219 johnstown once one of the most important towns in the world!

  • @LawyerCalhoun1
    @LawyerCalhoun1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Renovo. The principal employer was the Pennsylvania Railroad which had a large repair facility . It closed over 50 years ago and, being near the Susquehanna River, much of the town is subject to flooding.

  • @adamtereska8734
    @adamtereska8734 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Byrnesville, Pennsylvania is another coal mining town that is completely gone.
    Centralia's mune fire on May 27, 1962 happened because when burning the landfill to clean up the area for Memorial Day activities, a mine that did not get capped allowed the embers from burning the trash to ignite the coal.

  • @benjaminhaughney9930
    @benjaminhaughney9930 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The only borough on here that is actually not in existence is Centralia. The rest of them are less populated than they once were but very much active boroughs. Next week plymouth will hold the annual kielbasa festival which will bring alot of visitors to enjoy all the food and festivities. Plymouth is far from gone

  • @kenk4798
    @kenk4798 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The photo of Mt Carmel at 5.50 is from Wheeling WV! Fact check...

    • @CharlesD4rwin
      @CharlesD4rwin หลายเดือนก่อน

      tons of that in this video.... many shenandoah pics are from a neighborhood in Warminster, PA that happens to be called Shenandoah woods.

  • @baxter6920
    @baxter6920 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That is not how the fire in Centralia started

  • @craigflinner6381
    @craigflinner6381 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tons of inaccuracies. Bad AI and pictures of the wrong towns .

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we are sorry for that, will try to improve in next videos.

  • @WilliamBeam-p5k
    @WilliamBeam-p5k หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was born in Lock Haven ,Grew up only 3 miles west even went to church there and eventually college there , I never knew it was forgotten

    • @gsdfan8455
      @gsdfan8455 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah. I went to college there and loved that place. A lot of good memories

  • @JamesTaylor-ce4mr
    @JamesTaylor-ce4mr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This video is not credible. You showed a town called Shenandoah and your pictures are showing yellow dog, which is over here containing which is abandoned limestone so I’ve bend out these towns and just throwing pictures of whatever.

  • @billygames9161
    @billygames9161 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Actually the towns in pennsylvania are boroughs.

    • @davegallo8166
      @davegallo8166 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except for Bloomsburg

    • @seancrowley1065
      @seancrowley1065 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Levittown

    • @davegallo8166
      @davegallo8166 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@seancrowley1065 levittown is an unincorporated area, it's a housing development, not a town

  • @robertfeinberg748
    @robertfeinberg748 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Another forgotten town: Frackville, Mahanoy City.

  • @dmllr5615
    @dmllr5615 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    the South Carolina stock photo in a PA video is a nice touch. Also Lock Haven certainly isn't the center of the universe but to put it higher on the list than Mount Carmel wow! I enjoyed the video though.

    • @andrewschrim6676
      @andrewschrim6676 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God bless all those folks from the Blue Comet Diner! Nobody finer in all of Pennsylvania.

  • @connielocke9700
    @connielocke9700 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cambridge Springs, halfway mark for trains going from NYC to Chicago. Was a busy resort 100 yrs ago when it was popular for its healing waters (springs). Multiple large hotels and restaurants.

  • @dukemexplorer481
    @dukemexplorer481 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you want to know why Lock Haven started to fail beyond the flooding it's because some interest was to drive out the local high schools , when they decided to consolidate around the time the paper mill and piper international aircraft company was closing the doors in the area later Woolrich started closing up shop as the big 3 factories all now went out of business from back when this happened , sure the one who stayed was south Avis's Jersey Shore steel mill ,
    A lot of lost has happened in the area but stores are coming back , most local main street business is filled up and more is being added or being replaced with anew.
    Like many business is using Woolrich buildings as their home now, first quality is in the old home the Hamnermil international paper mill area, and dollar general is popping up everywhere.
    Yes the brick factories, the chair factories, the older business of lumbering and rafting and the canal systems are gone, the railroad is limited to one track now as it was also one of the major part of the lumber industry too.
    The Locks of which Lock Haven gots it's name it's gone yes the flooding was the major cause of its demise as 1889 this Ice flood was the beginning of the end , 1936 floods was the end.
    You see Jerry Church which founded a portion of Old Town west part as Lock Haven for the heaven of Locks this the name Lock Haven..which so many locks in the bald eagle canal system which ran from the west branch over to the Bald Eagle Creek had at least 6 locks known of but some say 9 or 10 in the cross cut area .
    The canal system ran clear to Pittsburgh .
    A silk mill was taken over William T. Piper a little after Tyler piper airport burnt in Bradford and Mr Piper built a airport behind the silk mill in a former race track field and a aircraft facility to build aircraft which built the Piper Cub
    Well the paper company which used many logs shipped down the bald eagle and in by trains was lock haven and castaner paper mills once was a big part of Lock Haven history too.
    I could go on and on a out the history of Lock Haven
    Since I live in the area
    Yes 1972 was the last major flood in the area and some minor in 1980s, but in 1994 a levee was built which did have the critics cause the would have the beauty taken away and did in ways, the town other than few spots hasn't flooded since closes was 2004
    Tho other parts was and has flooded in the county which was also founded by Jerry Church is in.
    As this point the city which is the smallest metropolis in Pennsylvania seems to have a little prosper in it and some areas not as much , .. enjoy little more history

  • @charlesgreene9467
    @charlesgreene9467 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Pennsylvania: The gold buckle of the Rust Belt.

  • @GilroyParks
    @GilroyParks หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fires in Centralia started from a burn at the trash, which ignited the coal mine

  • @marycowan7666
    @marycowan7666 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I grew up in California, PA. Every Saturday my mom would take me to Brownsville. She would get her hair done by “Guy” and then we’d go shopping. I remember the downtown area very well. Very pleasant memories.

  • @terrymccartney-ib1gf
    @terrymccartney-ib1gf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The overwhelming theme here is the coal industry

  • @jhonwask
    @jhonwask 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You spent a lot of time on Shenandoah. My parents were from Shenandoah, but as a family we lived in Frackville. My mother still resides there and I live in the township up the road from her house. Although the borough was so dependent on the coal and garment industry which have declined, it is still making efforts to keep the town alive. They have some amazing grant-writers and always seem to have a new revitalization project being undertaken.
    Thank you for this short video. Of the towns you have mentioned, I have been to 5 of them many, many times. i think there are 4 houses left in Centralia.

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      great to hear about your connection to Shenandoah and Frackville!

    • @shanenice5380
      @shanenice5380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't forget mrs t pierogies.keeped the town aluve.i used to lived minersville and I missed the frackville mall

  • @alfaluvr83
    @alfaluvr83 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    *Quieter. Semantics for mostly abandoned.

  • @ema63613
    @ema63613 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    None of these are correct. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania only has one town, Bloomsburg.

  • @MissRailfan
    @MissRailfan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    centraila- i think a pile of garbage was burning and then the ground gave way below to the coal underground. The white church is on solid rock, so it will remain forever.
    brownsville-- its pronounced monon-ga-he-la
    braddock as much of pittsburgh's western towns are all the same.duquesne is the same across the river
    mt carmel clip, you reversed the clip of driving thru town? thats odd....
    lock haven, i live 10mins from lh, and its dual but busy downtown.
    you forgot clearfield, johnstown, RENOVO. all but jtown are along the same river as lh. renovo is the worst of them on the river. jtown is simply jinxed, forgotten steel mill town.

    • @Jay70chevelle
      @Jay70chevelle หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Centraila is a pile of garbage now😂

    • @MissRailfan
      @MissRailfan หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jay70chevelle lol

  • @PaladinLarec
    @PaladinLarec 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Brownsville is where my family is from, they left in the 60s I think. My grandfather has fond memories and we went back there for a family reunion in 1992 and my cousins were so poor that when I brought my Nintendo they thought it was the greatest thing they ever saw. I let them have it and all my games too, just so they'd have something to play. Nice folk though. Apparently Doug Dascenzo, a baseball player for the cubs at the time, lived there and my grandfather showed me his house. It was a VERY rustic town even then, with no stores, no real place to eat, and everyone was buying their stuff at a bait shop along the river.

  • @davestrang8585
    @davestrang8585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Clymer and beaver falls

    • @Jay70chevelle
      @Jay70chevelle หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beaver falls wasnt so bad 30 years ago, but dang that place went down hill😂, my kid didnt get any good habbits hanging out there let me tell you and if i knew what his mother was letting him do there i would have been peed off

    • @davestrang8585
      @davestrang8585 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jay70chevelle we lived there before we moved to Johnstown in the 60s. Everyone talked about Joe Namath being from there 🙂

  • @jeanbaker2087
    @jeanbaker2087 หลายเดือนก่อน

    CHECK YOUR FACTS ABOUT CENTRALIA......you need an education.

  • @Tetsugakusha75
    @Tetsugakusha75 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brownsville, and no word about the Liggetts? C'mon 🙈

  • @donsmith908
    @donsmith908 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lock Haven still a working town yet. With business in and around there's a factory that makes diapers and bottle water in Lock Haven and small businesses that are thriving in the city.

  • @staceyhartman6825
    @staceyhartman6825 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dont forget Central City, Cairnbrook, #2,4,7 Rockingham, all stretched together, just 2 gas stations and a DG.
    Used to be ALOT of family owned business, now nothing.

  • @hightops77
    @hightops77 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought for sure johnstown was going to be on here 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @urpreposterous682
    @urpreposterous682 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My paternal aunt and her husband live in Mount Carmel, where they both worked in the garment industry making women's dresses. As a child and teenager, I would visit, and the women in our family could buy dresses at a huge discount. Sadly, my father committed suicide, and his side of the family blamed my mother, even though they were the ones who didn't visit or call him. He even called this sister the night before he died, and I've always wondered what they talked about. Mount Carmel is a depressing place with very prejudiced people, much like the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area.

  • @pghhkb
    @pghhkb หลายเดือนก่อน

    How are you going to pronounce Braddock correctly, but butcher Monogahela like that?
    In case you're interested.... it's MAH-NON-GAH-HAY-LA

  • @johndaugherty3544
    @johndaugherty3544 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Centralia? Really? That lack of town is better known than 95% of all other towns in the state of Pennsylvania. Thumbs DOWN!

  • @johnhow6971
    @johnhow6971 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ghost Towns? Not at all a good definition of places where people still live. "Depressed" is a better definition. Then too, a place like Plymouth always was depressed even when coal was king. A ghost town would be Centrailia and not mentioned Concrete City near Nanticoke.

  • @HenryFrederick
    @HenryFrederick หลายเดือนก่อน

    Population figures would have helped put things in perspective...

  • @99sentcoins
    @99sentcoins หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dont visit Braddock if you want to live.
    I lived in North Braddock for a year.
    I have not been back there in 20 years !
    Nothing but guns & drugs with a couple bars here & there.

  • @brianscott2404
    @brianscott2404 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I currently live in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. If anyone is ever in the area and are Interested in the landmarks/ History, and or The Amazing food stops randomly in the area that are all one of a kind. I've lived here on/off My entire life. A lot of good in this area and also a lot of bad. But I'd love to share the beautiful things that this town and Area have to offer someone from out of town.

  • @mcarlkv53
    @mcarlkv53 หลายเดือนก่อน

    my whole family history is from brownsville....my dad got a football schoalship went to school got a degree and got out!...ive been back to vist many times....sad to see what happened to it. my parents were maried in 1957 at first baptist church and it just burned down i heard

  • @ernieforrest7218
    @ernieforrest7218 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually Lock Haven is far better off than many other PA towns.
    Renovo for example, and Emporium are just 2 examples.

  • @rozchristopherson648
    @rozchristopherson648 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm in southwestern PA. Once other countries began building steel mills, the demand for imported steel from the US decreased significantly. Also, many US steel companies relocated out of the country for cheap labor. Once the steel industry went down, the coal mining industry also suffered since coal is necessary in the production of steel. Andrew Carnegie made his first big profits from England when England began constructing railroads and needed steel for the tracks. Carnegie exported steel to England. Streetcar tracks were another source of profits for Carnegie's steel manufacturing. Once England began constructing their own steel mills, Carnegie was shut out there, but there was still plenty of tracks to construct across the US. Then came steel necessary to construct skyscrapers. But by then then steel industry was diverse, spread out among many countries. Thus, the decline of steel mills and coal mining towns in the US, especially in Pennsylvania.

  • @BrianSmyth
    @BrianSmyth หลายเดือนก่อน

    OK so I came here for Ghost Town or empty towns in and around Pittsburgh and that’s none of these towns are still alive and bustling bad video thumbs down

  • @TheAstilesus
    @TheAstilesus หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shenandoah doesn't "shine." Unless you mean the shine of the drugs that are consumed there. The only town on this list that I would even consider living in is Lock Haven. Lock Haven shouldn't really be on this list. The university ensures that it isn't "forgotten."

  • @seancrowley1065
    @seancrowley1065 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Centralia's fire started at the dump and was lit by the F.D. Everyone knows that except for this guy !

  • @johnbutler4236
    @johnbutler4236 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am from Pennsylvania. I live near Centralia and Shenandoah. Centralia is just like a ghost town you still can see the smoke coming up through the ground and nobody lives there. there are people visiting Centralia to check it out at times. but Shenandoah I passed through Shenandoah all the time. and it's not as bad as they predicted in this video. it was a big mining area. there are lots of other businesses around Shenandoah and is still very busy town. they act like it's dead, and it's a ghost town. it's not , it's actually a nice town. it's clean and nice. the only problem is you have a lot of illegals moving in too Shenandoah and they caused a lot of violence and they bring drugs crimes with them.

  • @Masseyfarms
    @Masseyfarms หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shamokin in coal township has a little over 6000 in population im from there and there are actually fewer people and many buildings has be falling bc of people moving bc their is not many jobs nearby

  • @GregorioP4r4g
    @GregorioP4r4g 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also check out Tyrone, PA in Blair County.

  • @John_Wick2024
    @John_Wick2024 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Braddock pride of Senator Fetterman. Really turned the town around...lol

  • @Dave-lq2le
    @Dave-lq2le หลายเดือนก่อน

    Centralia used to be a cool place to visit. It's completely closed now because of the stupid dirt bikers that didn't know how to act. Oh well.

  • @quinceyfoose4276
    @quinceyfoose4276 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Omg I got 3 more for you
    1 audernried pa an beverbrook pa Macadoo pa I lived in all three of them audernried was a coal town till about the 60s an it slowed till about the 90s beverbrook was also a coal town one road in one road out people still live there Mcadoo pa it's still a nice town quite an big also all 3 towns are on the same road together neseld on rout 309 south of hazleton pa

  • @daredevilx0816
    @daredevilx0816 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was once a bustling city where everyone would put on their finest clothes and would go to do their shopping, eat dinner, and see a show. Many people lived here, worked here in the shops and steel mills. Once the steel mills closed, the city was abandoned by the upscale businesses and entertainment industry. The city changed drastically. It's unsafe to visit and live there.
    Now it's a depressed area within the city limits where crime is rampant and there's nothing redeeming left behind.
    However, Coatesville is huge. Outside the city limits are suburban and rural areas where beautiful roaming countryside and farmlands abound. Houses range from hovels to mansions, from to farmhouses to churches, from occasional small businesses to open countryside to quaint Amish villages. It's definitely a diverse area, but not much worth visiting.
    Outside the city limits of Coatesville is a beautiful place to live. But if you ask, the residents won't ever say that they live in Coatesville. Instead, they'll use the township name to describe where they reside. Unless they're from inside the city itself, where they have no choice but to call themselves denizens of Coatesville.
    Most people who live in the city of Coatesville district send their children to the local charter school. Others are fortunate to have Coatesville addresses but actually live in the Downingtown Area School District. DASD is a good school, better than the charter schools. Obviously, it is better than the Coatesville Area School District, which is inside city limits itself. Gangs from CASD have made their way to the charter schools, unfortunately.
    The area is extremely diverse, as is all of Chester County, PA.

    • @seancrowley1065
      @seancrowley1065 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lived at 6th and Merchant. Coatesville isn't as bad as you make it !

  • @josephbrandtner7713
    @josephbrandtner7713 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The fire in Centralia, PA started in a garbage dump where trash was burned. It ignited a coal seam!

  • @BytownUrbex
    @BytownUrbex หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a super cool find 😎 🤟 thx for sharing

  • @AutisticRPGer
    @AutisticRPGer 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lykens PA should be on this list too, it was at one point going to be the state capital now it barely has anything left after a flood and the coal industry declining so many abandoned buildings here and barely anyone has heard of it

  • @58motosports
    @58motosports หลายเดือนก่อน

    The AI talking sounds terrible... you all need to stop using it.

  • @cak5171
    @cak5171 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No one has forgotten Centralia. Especially youtube

  • @douglasswab5704
    @douglasswab5704 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yea pa had good jobs back in 80s till they all went over seas now we can barely put food on table thanks to are government

  • @dustbat
    @dustbat หลายเดือนก่อน

    My Dad was from Pa. Often spoke of Mt. Carmel. He was from Aristies, formally Marshal. Took him back late in his life. He took us to Centrailia. Had a great time eating in Ashland. He mads sure I could pronounce Lancaster.🦇

  • @larrycraker3935
    @larrycraker3935 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in northeastern Pennsylvania we had about 5 steel factories that have shut down its hard to find good work here

  • @extraextra998
    @extraextra998 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    McKeesport ,Duquesne Glassport , Clairton Pa

    • @Jay70chevelle
      @Jay70chevelle หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Donora, mon city, mckeesport the list around here goes on😂

    • @extraextra998
      @extraextra998 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Jay70chevelle it does 🤣

  • @robertfeinberg748
    @robertfeinberg748 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Centralia is right to be forgotten. See Ted Koppel Nightline.

  • @JUST_ONE_ID10T
    @JUST_ONE_ID10T หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are many towns that are not doing well in most of those areas in PA. Lots of empty houses. Sometimes you can even buy homes dirt cheap in those areas. But the issue is there are not enough jobs so people don't have the money to fix them up or if they do they would want to rent them out but then renters don't have the funds to afford renting them as most of the good paying jobs closed down. If you go to Kittanning and ford city pa, Some of the larger coal mining companies closed. PPG glass in ford city closed, Ejer closed( they made toilets, sinks, and urinals. I remember seeing the brand name on the urinals as a kid not knowing they were made locally. If you go to downtown Kittanning the main street going thru town from the bridge going to the court house since it's the county seat. Lots of building taken down and turned into parking lots. There are not many stores left. there are still nice homes in the area but a lot of the schools were torn down as there wasn't as big of a need for schools as people moving from the area and less people with kids. It seems to be lots of retired people. I just wonder what is going to happen when they are no longer in the area. I've seen homes for sale for like 20k 30k that are liveable at times but right now the prices are up and a fairly nice house is 50k dollars. that isn't bad for a place to live if you think about it. Of course if you get to some of the better areas you can still find expensive homes but again it depends on the area. I am sure you can find homes that are over a million dollars in the surrounding area if you looked but there are also lots of budget homes with the lack of jobs.

    • @urpreposterous682
      @urpreposterous682 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't understand why they convert everything into parking lots when there's nothing to do downtown.

    • @JUST_ONE_ID10T
      @JUST_ONE_ID10T หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@urpreposterous682 They are hoping stores will come if they have parking. But the issue is to pay for the paving they put in parking meters and that just kills people from coming as they can go to walmart without having to pay for parking.

    • @urpreposterous682
      @urpreposterous682 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JUST_ONE_ID10T
      Pittston is trying to revitalize its downtown, but it will never be like it was in its heyday. I found some great JC Penney sheets and pillowcases at my grandmother's house that were priced at 34 cents or less when JC Penney was in downtown Pittston. Now, the surrounding areas have many rundown, unkempt houses and streets. Drug and alcohol addiction are prevalent, as is mental illness.

    • @donnalaguardia2686
      @donnalaguardia2686 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JUST_ONE_ID10T I understand what you are saying but stores, restaurants etc are all useless unless there are jobs to support the residents and give them a reason to stay . I moved to western PA 25 years ago honestly, I was shocked to see towns like Brownsville with empty buildings…it’s very sad and eye opening indeed.

    • @JUST_ONE_ID10T
      @JUST_ONE_ID10T หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@donnalaguardia2686 I'm over in charleroi pa not far from brownsville. It's sad.

  • @patriciafeehan7732
    @patriciafeehan7732 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ma Nog Ga Heel La

  • @CharlesD4rwin
    @CharlesD4rwin หลายเดือนก่อน

    you incorrectly feature the"Shenandoah Woods" neoghborhood, an abandoned (now razed) US Nazy Development located in Warminster, PA. Shenandoah Woods has nothing to do with Shenandoah PA and is located more than 100 miles away.

  • @user-jw1yj6um9v
    @user-jw1yj6um9v หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hopwood and uniontown, pennsylvania

  • @RichardWilliams-wl7fk
    @RichardWilliams-wl7fk 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mount Carmel had a large bookie

  • @j.spinneweber8129
    @j.spinneweber8129 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Brownsville is still there.

  • @urpreposterous682
    @urpreposterous682 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Plymouth is plagued by drugs, with high overdose rates and fatalities. If someone isn't a drug addict, they might be an alcoholic, or even both. However, they do have the Pierogi Festival.

    • @Jay70chevelle
      @Jay70chevelle หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everywhere is plauged by drugs and overdoses these days, trust me my family went through it

    • @TheAstilesus
      @TheAstilesus หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most of these towns are the same. Except Centralia. I think no one lives there. Might be a couple left.

    • @tiffanyshanley1419
      @tiffanyshanley1419 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I always miss that festival. Is it always in Plymouth? Isn't there another one somewhere in Luzerne county?

  • @luiszuluaga6575
    @luiszuluaga6575 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I imagine Lock Haven suffered from floods due to deforestation. Just a consideration. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @Jay70chevelle
      @Jay70chevelle หลายเดือนก่อน

      All those logs sank and caused the river to rise😂😂😂

    • @TheAstilesus
      @TheAstilesus หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. Pennsylvania is full of towns that are built in flood zones. And all those trees grew back. The area is beautiful. And Lock Haven is hardly "forgotten."

  • @markhuyette8509
    @markhuyette8509 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need to do one on Chester PA it's a gost town 😂

  • @briansmith-l1q
    @briansmith-l1q หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow, all these happy shiny, people

  • @Homemedix5598
    @Homemedix5598 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You forgot to mention how the corporations made millions in these areas and the executives all left with golden parachutes. Leaving the people who actually busted their butts doing the work high and dry

  • @cmharnold
    @cmharnold หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such unnecessary use of ai.

  • @travelawaitsyou
    @travelawaitsyou  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some pictures are generated by AI in this video which have some inaccuracies. We apologize for that, we will surely try to enhance our quality in the next videos. Thank you for your understanding.
    Ghost Towns in USA: th-cam.com/video/OgrnYXZz7Wo/w-d-xo.html

  • @dawnroberts-qi7zo
    @dawnroberts-qi7zo หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about oil towns in Pa?

  • @debfarr5568
    @debfarr5568 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah Norwich n y

  • @karengunia5451
    @karengunia5451 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about Star Junction, where my dad grew up. Also Crabtree, and Russelton.

  • @72shovelhead45
    @72shovelhead45 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem with Pennsylvania is that they always go back to coal which creates little to no jobs. As the town get run down and people leave other coal companies move in here and destroy everything because the towns are too poor to fight them and keep them out. The bottom line is anywhere there's coal mines and coal cleaning plants is that the towns are usually dumps.

  • @michaelwalsh98
    @michaelwalsh98 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My Mom grew up in Mt Carmel, my Dad in Centraila, they moved to Philly when the mines closed. I went up there every summer for many years.

  • @raymondeichler442
    @raymondeichler442 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You could have included Parker, PA, the Smallest City in America

  • @the_k9_cpt
    @the_k9_cpt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love love love your Pennsylvania videos!

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      glad to hear that.❤️

  • @NoName-zz8nl
    @NoName-zz8nl หลายเดือนก่อน

    You forgot to mention Lititz because aint nobody can afford to live there

  • @fugitiverecoveryagent2972
    @fugitiverecoveryagent2972 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow

  • @wendyg1676
    @wendyg1676 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I live in Mt Carmel

    • @travelawaitsyou
      @travelawaitsyou  22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      how's everything there now?

  • @DonaldEisenhart-o5x
    @DonaldEisenhart-o5x หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about Renova.

    • @crsy3
      @crsy3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must be a homey, there is no other way to know where that is.😊

  • @frankh405
    @frankh405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has no one mentioned Shamokin yet? What a miserable place.

  • @johnnaccarato9660
    @johnnaccarato9660 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Charleroipashouldbeonyourvideoanddonorapa

  • @macsloan58
    @macsloan58 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brookville Pennsylvania

  • @MinaRay-o2q
    @MinaRay-o2q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey I love your channel. You’re gonna be really big. Keep up the good work. ❤