Rausch Gap

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This is a picture of the sign to the cemetery in this article about the Rausch Gap Bridge being closed.

here’s not much left of the village of Rausch Gap. There’s an old cemetery a short distance off the trail in the woods, but it’s hard to find among the tall trees.

Watts said the bridge was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

Rausch Gap was one of a handful of small coal-mining towns that sprung up in Stony Valley during the 1800s. It was once connected to the Susquehanna River by the railroad and was home to about 1,000 residents who worked in the mines or in railroad shops.

Now a ghost town, Rausch Gap is one of the many stops along the 2,175-mile Appalachian Trail, with a shelter there for overnight campers.