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Indiana County
9 places. A county full of stories.
Discover local legends, historic places and the stories of sites you can explore virtually.
Explore this county on the map →Allen Bridge on Allen Bridge Road
Allen Bridge in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County, is known locally for a woman-in-white story. But the experience one visitor described in May…
OutdoorsEliza Furnace
Eliza Furnace stands beside Blacklick Creek and the Ghost Town Trail near Vintondale. David Ritter and Lot Irvin built the iron furnace in 1846.…
Ghost Town Trail at Bracken Dip
Bracken Dip lies along the Ghost Town Trail west of Nanty Glo, near the old Bracken coal workings and the South Branch of Blacklick Creek. Its local…
SchoolsJohn Sutton Hall
John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania originally contained the new Indiana Normal School. When the school opened in 1875, its first…
Bridges & railwaysOld Smicksburg Park on Little Mahoning Creek
A ghost story from Indiana County’s Mahoning Valley follows a railroad worker whose fiddle was welcome at dances but less welcome to his housemate.…
Olde Salt Restaurant properties
The Olde Salt Restaurant operated on Point Street in Saltsburg, near the town’s former canal and railroad. Its owners, the Georges, reportedly saw a…
Bridges & railwaysPacksaddle Gap on the Conemaugh River near Torrance
Packsaddle Gap is the Conemaugh River’s passage through Chestnut Ridge near Torrance. Railroaders once told of an old man standing on the tracks…
OutdoorsWatts Hill
Watts Hill, on the road between Indiana and Shelocta, had a ghost story long before an unusual encounter made the local newspaper in 1889. The older…
West Philadelphia Street at Bill Dick Road
John 'Yank' Brown belonged to a band of thieves operating along the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana Turnpike. Around Armagh in Indiana County, his…