This land is posted “NO TRESPASSING” by the land owner.
#GRAFFITI HIGHWAY LICENSE#
There were license plates leaving the area from New York, New Jersey and other areas that have a much higher positive testing rate then our area. With the current status of the world and the COVID19 pandemic having groups of 30+ are not to occur and again our volunteers could be exposed to such.It is dry out with a breeze/wind, there is no outdoor burning allowed in Conyngham Twp unless it is on an approved burning receptacle and the land being used is not owned by the people who are burning on it.
“It forces our volunteers to be deployed for a response that should not happen. They listed four concerns with the crowds: KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Fox Coal Company triaxle dumps its load on Graffiti Highway on April 6, 2020. KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Rows upon rows of dirt piles cover Graffiti Highway on April 6, 2020.Ĭentralia borough personnel were at the northern entrance to the site installing no parking signs.ĭespite Governor Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order regarding the coronavirus pandemic, upwards of 100 people per day have taken to the abandoned stretch of highway in the past few weeks, prompting the Aristes Fire Company, which responds to the highway, to call out the situation via Facebook. Guarna escorted the Sentinel‘s reporter down the highway to the site, where dozens of dirt piles, in rows of three, were already dumped as of 2:00pm. Troopers patrolled the remainder of the town as well. State troopers from the Bloomsburg barracks and Ashland Police secured the site for most of the day, keeping most onlookers away. KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – An Ashland police officer and Pennsylvania State Trooper stand by at the entrance to Graffiti Highway in Centralia, Columbia County Monday afternoon. Guarna said that, in the morning, about 50 people were at the highway. “The trespassers here, they’re doing a lot of damage up in town, the cemeteries are getting vandalized,” Guarna said. Increased hazardous activity at the site, including a bonfire and injuries at the site, as well as increased vandalism in the borough of Centralia itself, led to the project, Guarna said. He said trees and grass will be planted at the site as well. Guarna said the project will take about three or four days. Tri-axles were in-and-out of the site, a three-quarter mile stretch of four-lane road which served as PA Route 61 until the 1990s. KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A triaxle travels north on Graffiti Highway in Conyngham Township, Columbia County. “We were hired by the landowner to haul approximately 400 loads of dirt to cover the road,” said Vince Guarna, owner of Fox Coal Company. 
All rights reserved.CENTRALIA, Columbia County – An impromptu and unofficial tourist attraction just over the Schuylkill County line will be no more by the end of the week.įox Coal Company, of Mount Carmel, was hired by the Graffiti Highway’s owner, Pagnotti Enterprises, of Wilkes-Barre, to cover the road with backfill. ™ & © 2020 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. “I guess they said it’s an abandoned town and stuff, kind of like spooky.” “It’s pretty cool, the story behind it’s cool,” Hannah Quinn, who came from Harrisburg to see the highway, told WNEP. Many of the town’s properties have been demolished, but tourists still come to see what’s left of the ghost town and the graffiti-covered highway, where steam occasionally emanates from cracks in the asphalt. The state says only five households remained in Centralia as of 2013. The US Congress allocated $42 million in 1984 to relocate homes and business in the town. It’s been burning ever since, according to the state. Officials started the fire in 1962 to clean up a trash dump, but the flames ignited a seam of coal that runs under the town. It’s now all but abandoned because of the fire. “I’m assuming the owners got fed up and decided they were going to fill everything in,” Anthony Procopio told WNEP.Ĭentralia is about an hour northeast of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and was once home to about 1,200 people.
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