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Inns & businesses1758 Sun Inn
The Sun Inn on Main Street in Bethlehem was built in 1758 and accommodated travelers from 1760 into the late 1960s. Its recorded guests include…
Beethoven Waldheim Club
Beethoven Waldheim began as a Leith family farm off Flint Hill Road in Lower Saucon Township. Bootleggers used the secluded property during…
Braveheart Highland Pub
Braveheart Highland Pub in Hellertown occupies a former hotel building with a long history of upstairs lodging. In its Eagle Hotel years,…
OutdoorsColumcille Megalith Park
Columcille Megalith Park below Blue Mountain grew from a dream Bill Cohea experienced on the Scottish island of Iona in 1967. Exhausted during a…
Bridges & railwaysDelaware River Viaduct at Slateford
The Delaware River Viaduct at Slateford was built between 1908 and 1911, using concrete supplied from plants on both banks. A cableway carried…
CemeteriesEaston Area Public Library
Easton Area Public Library opened in 1903 on the former German Reformed Cemetery. Graves had been moved to make space for the building, but stories…
Former Belfast Hotel and Café del Mar
The former Belfast Hotel on Sullivan Trail became Café del Mar, with a restored restaurant and bar on the first floor. Staff called its elusive…
Former Black Horse Inn
The former Black Horse Inn beside the Delaware Canal near Easton is associated with Saverio Damiano, a Prohibition-era mobster better known as Johnny…
Former Good Shepherd and Via thrift store
The former Good Shepherd thrift store in Nazareth stood in a shopping center built over the old fairgrounds racetrack. That history supplied an…
Former Leithsville Inn
The former Leithsville Inn has a ghost story centered on its garage, once a barn. Local historian Karen Samuels recounted a tradition in which an…
Former Newburg Inn
Anthony Rando accompanied Northampton County Paranormal on an overnight investigation of the Newburg Inn near Nazareth beginning October 13, 2011. At…
Former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
The former St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Wind Gap became the home of the Pocono Frightmares attraction. In October 2007, four contestants spent the…
Former Weaversville Inn and Jessica’s Tea Room
Lauren, a server at the former Weaversville Inn, stayed in a furnished upstairs room for three weeks. In a recorded interview during a 2013…
OutdoorsGetter’s Island
Getter's Island, in the Delaware River at Easton, takes its name from Charles Getter, who was executed there in 1833 for murdering his wife. Margaret…
Inns & businessesGrace House
Grace House on West Fourth Street in Bethlehem began as a Queen Anne residence around 1885. Eugene Grace, who later became president of Bethlehem…
Outdoors · AI illustrationHexenkopf Rock
Hexenkopf Rock in Williams Township takes its name from the German for “witch’s head.” The Northampton County outcrop became associated with two…
OutdoorsIndian Tower and memorial
The Indian Tower stands on a hill above Nazareth, beside an old burial ground and a separate memorial. For local novelist Scott Morro, the tower…
OutdoorsIndianland settlement
In 1889, folklorist Walter J. Hoffman recorded a story about two feuding farmers in the Northampton County settlement called Indianland. Their…
OutdoorsLehigh Canal
A woman in white became the talk of Walnutport in 1963, drawing crowds to the Lehigh Canal near Lock 23 and its locktender’s house. According to a…
OutdoorsLehigh River at Bethlehem
A Bethlehem legend follows Moravian missionary John Heckewelder to the banks of the Lehigh River, where a woman’s apparition was frightening…
PA 512 (West Moorestown Road) and Bushkill Center Road
A contributor named Lance placed a Wind Gap-area story in woods near Bushkill Corners, off Route 512 in Northampton County. The experience described…
Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre on Main Street in Northampton opened as the Lyric in 1921, when live musical accompaniment helped bring silent films to life. Its…
Inns & businessesState Theatre Center for the Arts
The State Theatre in Easton calls its resident ghost Fred, after former manager Fred Osterstock. His connection with the building extended beyond…
Historic homesWhitefield House
Whitefield House in Nazareth dates to 1743 and houses the Moravian Historical Society's museum. Its second floor once served as a residential nursery…
Inns & businessesWidow’s Tavern and Grille
Widow’s Tavern and Grille in Stockertown tells the story of Marvin, an employee from the building’s days as an inn and stagecoach stop. According to…
Inns & businessesWillow Grove Hotel
Willow Grove Hotel in Freemansburg stands beside Lock 44 on the Lehigh Canal. The hotel and nearby mule barn appeared in scenery filmed for The…