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Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion in Altoona was built in the 1840s for iron master Elias Baker and is now a museum of the Blair County Historical Society.…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Betsy Ross House on Arch Street in Old City is a small Colonial house where, by tradition, seamstress Betsy Ross made one of the first…
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Bube's Brewery is a 19th-century brewery and hotel with a restaurant in its stone cellars. Guests describe laughter from the lower chambers…
Swissvale, Pennsylvania
The Carrie Blast Furnaces, on the Monongahela River in Rankin and Swissvale, are the surviving ironworks of a Homestead Steel Works plant…
Cashtown, Pennsylvania
Owners and guests of the Cashtown Inn have described thumping doors, lights turning on and off on their own, doors locking and unlocking by…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh is a 42-story Gothic Revival skyscraper completed in 1937, with a soaring Commons…
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia was a coal town whose underground mine fire began in May 1962 when a trash fire in a pit ignited the old mine workings. By the…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Church Brew Works occupies the former St. John the Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, a brewery and restaurant since 1996. Staff report…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Dobbin House on Steinwehr Avenue was built in 1776 by Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a house and school; it is said to have been a…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour guides and visitors at Eastern State Penitentiary describe cackling laughter echoing from empty cellblocks, shifting shadows glimpsed…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Farnsworth House Inn, built around 1810 on Baltimore Street, was used by Confederate sharpshooters during the Battle of Gettysburg and…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River in south Philadelphia, was begun in 1771 and withstood a British siege in 1777; it later held…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Fulton Theatre in downtown Lancaster, built in 1852 and billed as the oldest continuously operating theater in America, stands on the…
Malvern, Pennsylvania
The General Warren Inne in Malvern was built in 1745 as a way station on the road to Lancaster and was named for a Revolutionary general.…
Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
The George Taylor House was built in 1768 by a signer of the Declaration of Independence and is a National Historic Landmark. Volunteers…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Gettysburg Hotel on Lincoln Square began in 1797 as the Scott Tavern, was later the Indian Queen and the McClellan House, and was used…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
For three days in July 1863, the fields and ridgelines around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted the largest battle ever…
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Hanoverville Roadhouse is said to be haunted by a boy of about eight to ten, dark-haired and dressed in dark clothes and often seen…
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Historic Hotel Bethlehem on Main Street, opened in 1922, stands on ground that was home to the Moravians' 1700s Crown Inn, and the…
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
Hotel Conneaut stands beside Conneaut Lake Park and has been a lakeside landmark since the early 1900s; fires have damaged it more than…
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
The Inn at Jim Thorpe on Broadway has been a hotel since 1849, in the heart of the historic mining and railroad town. VisitPA's ghost trail…
Bedford, Pennsylvania
The Jean Bonnet Tavern on the Lincoln Highway near Bedford dates to the 1760s, was a headquarters during General Forbes' expedition against…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade, a 20-year-old woman, was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, shot by a stray bullet on…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Leverington Cemetery in Philadelphia's Roxborough neighborhood is a historic burial ground that Pennsylvania ghost lists, including a…