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Wooded Blue Hill rising beyond the Susquehanna River, seen from Packers Island.Outdoors

Blue Hill

Blue Hill, above the Susquehanna confluence near present-day Sunbury, was once associated with caves called the Demon’s Den. Moravian traveler Count…

The Wi-Daagh column topped by an ornament and surrounded by a low fence at Lochabar, as pictured in the Nippono Park souvenir booklet.Inns & businesses

Enchanted Spring on the Lochabar estate

The Enchanted Spring near Antes Fort is associated with Wi-Daagh, a Native American leader remembered in Henry W. Shoemaker’s 1912 Tales of the Bald…

Arched stone entrance and front steps of Old City Hall on Williamsport’s former Pine Street Cemetery site.Cemeteries

Former Pine Street (Ross Park) Cemetery

Williamsport’s former Pine Street Cemetery became linked to a literary procession of the restless dead. A local newspaper adapted Mark Twain’s “A…

Postcard of the Sones sawmills with log piles, narrow rails and smokestacks at Masten.Outdoors · Historical image

Masten CCC Camp Campground

Masten was a lumber town in what is now Loyalsock State Forest. Charles Sones established the town and its mills in 1906, then sold the operation to…

Aerial view of gravestones and bare trees at Mosquito Valley Cemetery beside the curving road.Cemeteries · Aerial view

Mosquito Valley Cemetery

At Mosquito Valley Cemetery near Duboistown, an Allison family marker became the focus of a story about a headless woman. Some versions call her a…

Bronze plaque on a large boulder outside the former Calvary Methodist Church.Outdoors

Sutton Avenue

A Williamsport tradition places a mounted apparition on Sutton Avenue late at night or before dawn. A contributor named Justice described a Native…

Period postcard of the Sylvan Dell boat landing, with passengers and wooden launches on the West Branch Susquehanna.Outdoors · Historical image

Sylvan Dell on the West Branch Susquehanna River near the mouth of Loyalsock Creek

Sylvan Dell, beside the West Branch Susquehanna near the mouth of Loyalsock Creek, is the setting of Henry W. Shoemaker's story “The Siren,”…

Entrance to the Thomas T. Taber Museum in Williamsport, home of Nellie Tallman’s portrait.Culture & landmarks

Thomas T. Taber Museum

At Williamsport's Thomas T. Taber Museum, a portrait of three-year-old Nellie Tallman carries a story of a father's loss and a painting that would…

A color postcard shows the chapel and entrance at Wildwood Cemetery in Williamsport.Cemeteries · Historical image

Wildwood Cemetery

The Pursell family vault in Wildwood Cemetery near Williamsport was built for an unusual emergency: someone waking after being declared dead. A…