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Renée Jacobs

Huck 77

Inside the American town burning since 1962

In the ’80s, photographer Renée Jacobs touched down in Centralia, a small Appalachian mining town approaching its final chapter due to the slow creep of an unstoppable fire, blazing 300 feet below ground.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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