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Ghost towns dot Western Pa., Pittsburgh landscape and history

Megan Tomasic
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Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review
Cokeville Historian Tour Guide Dana Spiardi, pictured at a Coke oven in the former Cokeville village near Blairsville Saturday. April 10, 2021.
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Courtesy of U.S. Steel Corp.
Train crosses Port Perry Bridge over the Monongahela River at North Versailles.
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Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review
A group of roughly fifty, hike through the former village of Cokeville Saturday. April 10, 2021, many who participated in the five mile tour are desendance of former residents who were forced to evacuate the area for flood control dams on the Conemaugh River near Blairsville.
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Courtesy of Dana Spiardi
A former business that was in Cokeville.
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Courtesy of Dana Spiardi
A house is being moved out of Cokeville.
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Courtesy of Dana Spiardi
Cokeville in the final days before residents were evacuated.
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Courtesy of Dana Spiardi
A 1951 map of Cokeville as printed in The Blairsville Dispatch.

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