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Columbia County

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Rain on Railroad Avenue in Centralia, Pennsylvania.Outdoors

Centralia

Centralia was a coal-mining borough in Columbia County before an underground fire transformed it into one of Pennsylvania’s best-known abandoned…

Overhead view of the old Hotel Iola property on the east side of Route 42.Inns & businesses · Aerial view

Former Hotel Iola

The former Hotel Iola, in the Columbia County village of Iola near Millville, has ghost stories centered on its bar and mirrors. Visitors reportedly…

A 2010 aerial photograph shows the ironmaster’s house in its wooded grounds beside Fishing Creek before the site changed.Inns & businesses · Aerial view

Former Irondale Inn site

The Irondale Inn near Fishing Creek in Bloomsburg occupied an ironmaster’s fieldstone house built in 1837–39. When it operated as an inn, stories…

Artist’s interpretation of the two low iron hoods over the Catawissa graves.Cemeteries · AI illustration

Hooded Grave Cemetery

Two graves near Catawissa are enclosed by unusual iron hoods, their curved bars forming low roofs over the burial plots. They belong to Sarah Ann…

Aerial view of Katy’s Church and the rows of graves behind it at the rural crossroads.Cemeteries · Aerial view

Katy’s Church (Immanuel Lutheran) and Van Dine Cemetery

Katy’s Church, formally Immanuel Lutheran Church, stands beside the Van Dine family burial ground in Columbia County near Jerseytown. Its namesake,…

Overhead view of the angular auditorium roof and grounds of Bloomsburg’s performing arts center.Schools · Aerial view

Steph & Allie Pettit Center for the Arts

The performing arts building long known as the Haas Center on Bloomsburg's university campus has a resident ghost in student folklore: a deceased…