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Beaver County
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Explore this county on the map →Brittain Homestead grounds
The former Brittain house stands near the entrance to Rolling Acres Golf Course outside Beaver Falls. In the late 1960s, owners Ladd and Jane told…
Outdoors · AI illustrationCaptain Blazier’s former home
Captain Calvin Blazier’s former house at State Street and Bryan Avenue in Baden later became offices. It was there that Gaylin Katterson encountered…
Outdoors · AI illustrationChapel Road
Jacob Frederick Streit and Margaret Mateer married in the early 1890s and began their life together in a farmhouse on Chapel Road in Center Township,…
OutdoorsFormer Old Shot Tower
Darlington's Old Shot Tower was a tall wooden building across Third Street from Greersburg Academy. A legend collected by Tony Lavorgne centers on…
CemeteriesFormer Patterson Cemetery entrance
Patterson Cemetery once stood near the old Presbyterian church in the area of Beaver Falls now called Lincoln Place. Stone pillars marked its…
Cemeteries · Historical imageFormer St. Mary’s Episcopal Church / Widmer Engineering
The former St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Beaver Falls became a Widmer Engineering office in the early 1990s. The property had a longstanding…
OutdoorsFormer WMBA studios
Before WMBA moved to Merchant Street in 1987, the radio station broadcast from a converted house on Fourteenth Street in Ambridge. A story recorded…
Foxwood Road at Craun Lane
Foxwood Road near Koppel in Beaver County has two different apparition traditions. One describes a headless rider crossing the road at midnight. A…
OutdoorsHardins Run Road
John Reddick served as an associate judge in Beaver County from 1804 until his death in 1830. His burial near the Pennsylvania–Virginia boundary…
Historic homesJames Edgar House
The James Edgar House stands at Fifth Avenue and 11th Street in New Brighton, across from the former railroad station that is now the Merrick Art…
John Anderson Memorial Cemetery
John Anderson Memorial Cemetery beside Service Church in Raccoon Township, Beaver County, began receiving burials in 1803. It took the name of the…
Junction of Wolf Run Road and Kelly Road
The vanishing hitchhiker of Beaver County’s “Mystery Mile” is a young woman who accepts a ride, sits quietly in the back seat and disappears before…
Inns & businesses · Aerial viewMad Anthony’s Bier Stube
At Mad Anthony's Bier Stube in Ambridge, the resident spirits were said to be a young boy and girl from the old Harmonist community. James C.…
Culture & landmarksMerrick Art Gallery
The Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton was founded by Edward Dempster Merrick. Local ghost lore imagines him continuing to visit the paintings he…
OutdoorsMineral Springs Loop
Frankfort Mineral Springs in Raccoon Creek State Park once drew visitors to Edward McGinnis's health resort. Its spring, waterfall, and sheltered…
Mount Carmel Cemetery
On February 8, 2002, Janice Cercone and her husband Don accompanied the Raw Fear investigators to several cemeteries in Center Township, Beaver…
Outdoors · AI illustrationMudlick Hollow Road beside Mudlick Run
Mudlick Hollow Road in Brighton Township, Beaver County, is the setting for a legend about newlyweds who never reached home after their wedding. The…
Outdoors · Aerial viewNew Brighton Borough Building
New Brighton's municipal building began as a National Guard armory in 1908. Employees later nicknamed its unexplained visitor “the General,” although…
OutdoorsOld Economy Village
Old Economy Village in Ambridge preserves the settlement established by the Harmony Society in 1824. Its founder, George Rapp, laid out a large…
OutdoorsPig Lady marker near Ridge Road and Cannelton Road
The Pig Lady is a longstanding legend of Cannelton, a former mining community in Beaver County's Darlington Township. Her story centers on Barbara…
Bridges & railwaysShenango Road railroad overpass near Ashwood Road
Summit Cut Bridge carries Shenango Road over railroad tracks near Ashwood Road in Beaver County. Local tradition describes a woman in white walking…
The Eyes That Followed a Car on Crail Hill Road
Crail Hill Road connects Patterson Road and Green Garden Road in Raccoon Township, Beaver County. In an October 2003 post to the PA Legends group, a…
Historic homesVicary Mansion
Vicary Mansion in Freedom has accumulated stories about a sealed bridal chamber, a secret tunnel to the river, and a haunting. Researcher Roger…