How about another Barnesboro post?

A block away on the same street where I grew up this 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 1800 sf house,

is selling for $25,000. That house was built in 1896. Barnesboro was never, to state the obvious, the City Beautiful, but for more than half a century at least, and into the 1960’s and ‘70’s, Barnesboro was “a great place to grow up,” in the words of one of my friends, a rural, blue collar middle class town. There was no crime other than drunkenness but now from what I gather from the Johnstown papers it, and one notorious section 8 housing project put up where the community swimming pool used to be in particular, has become the county center of the methamphetamine drug trade. Cambria County did two drug sweeps in Northern Cambria (Barnesboro), one in 2016, one in 2017, making 22 arrests one time, 15 the other. A Northern Cambria police officer was charged with buying drugs! We never was skaid a no drugs now but neither was Barnesboro Medellin-upon Alleghenies. Crime that literally was unheard of in my life there, like a woman breaking into a neighbor’s house and assaulting the homeowner, that happened three blocks away on the same street where we lived, is now heard of with some regularity. The coal mines are exhausted, the land is ruined, the people are played out. How are you going to make a living? Set up a meth lab in your apartment in Cherry Ridge.

I have no love for the place but I have a place in my heart for Barnesboro and it breaks my heart to hear of it in the state that it is now. Really breaks my heart.