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The brownstone Raymond-Young Mansion with its green porch and Alfred’s Victorian sign on the front lawn.Inns & businesses

Alfred’s Victorian

Alfred's Victorian occupies the Raymond-Young Mansion on North Union Street in Middletown. Simon Cameron Young bought the brownstone house in 1902…

Earlier photograph of the administration building at the former Harrisburg State Hospital.Schools

Former Harrisburg State Hospital campus

Harrisburg State Hospital opened in 1851 and closed as a hospital in 2006. Its large campus subsequently included office space, and one of the more…

Cars fill the parking lot outside the Harrisburg Mall’s main entrance and restaurant façades on an overcast day.Outdoors

Former JCPenney / Boscov’s footprint

After JCPenney left Harrisburg East Mall, stories circulated about its vacant department-store space. People reported a figure on the roof and…

Indian Echo Caverns near Hummelstown, where William Wilson lived along Swatara Creek.Outdoors

Indian Echo Caverns

Indian Echo Caverns near Hummelstown sheltered William Wilson from 1802 to 1821. Known as the Pennsylvania Hermit, he withdrew from society after his…

The Londonderry volunteer fire station and its apparatus apron on Foxianna Road.Historic homes

Londonderry Fire Company No. 1

Francis 'Sam' Fullerton was Londonderry Fire Company No. 1's chief driver. In July 1974, he was traveling toward the station while the company's Mack…

Aerial view of Maple Grove Cemetery, with circular drives and rows of graves opposite Upper Dauphin High School.Cemeteries · Aerial view

Maple Grove Cemetery

Maple Grove Cemetery stands across from Upper Dauphin Area High School near Elizabethville. In a March 11, 2003 account, a former student named…

Hersheypark’s Carrousel lit at night beneath the dark roof of its original Carrousel Circle pavilion.Outdoors

Original Carrousel Circle

Hersheypark’s historic Carrousel stood in Carrousel Circle from 1972 through 2019, before moving to the Chocolatetown entrance. Stories about the…

Leaf-off aerial of the wooded Rothrock burial ground, Locust Grove Road and the railroad.Cemeteries · Aerial view

Rothrock Cemetery

Rothrock Cemetery on Locust Grove Road near Middletown has a dare associated with its enclosing wall: walk around it three times, and an unseen…

The Stony Valley railroad grade looking west from Gold Mine Road into Cold Spring Township.Bridges & railways

Stony Valley Railroad Grade

The abandoned railroad grades and mining settlements of Stony Valley have several traditions about headless men. One concerns a miner who lost his…

The Fountain Lobby at the Hotel Hershey.Inns & businesses

The Hotel Hershey

Milton Hershey opened The Hotel Hershey on May 26, 1933, on Pat’s Hill overlooking his chocolate factory. His attachment to the hotel later became…

AI illustration of the banded serpent and a fisherman with a pole in Skinner’s Wolf Pond legend.Outdoors · AI illustration

Wolf Pond

Wolf Pond in Dauphin County has a serpent story collected by Charles M. Skinner in the 1890s. He dated the encounter to September 1887, when a…