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Perry County

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A roadside billboard offers travelers a stagecoach illustration and directions to Amity Hall two miles ahead.Inns & businesses

Former Amity Hall Hotel

Amity Hall was an old travelers’ inn near Duncannon, close to the meeting of the Juniata and Susquehanna rivers. A 1938 roadside billboard advertised…

An early automobile passes beneath Girty’s Notch. A black circle marks the face-like silhouette against the sky in this 1922 reproduction.Outdoors

Girtys Notch

Girty’s Notch was a sandstone formation beside the Susquehanna River near Liverpool in Perry County. Travelers thought the cliff resembled a man’s…

A small clearing under the trees beside Laurel Run Road at Pioneer Cemetery in Tuscarora State Forest.Cemeteries

Pioneer Cemetery

Pioneer Cemetery marks the lost village of Pandemonium in Perry County. Local memories center on a little girl's stone bearing the name Sadie. A…

The former military academy campus on the hillside beside North Carlisle Street in New Bloomfield.Outdoors

The Maples

The Maples was the original 1840 building at Carson Long Military Academy in New Bloomfield and later served administrative functions. A night guard…

West Perry High School from above, with the courtyard in its center and playing fields beyond.Schools

West Perry High School

West Perry High School in Elliottsburg has a janitor story centered on room 118. When the building is quiet, people are said to hear a sequence of…

AI-generated illustration looking through Davy’s windshield at a pale hound on the hood and another along the roof.Outdoors · AI illustration

Woods near Oriental

The country roads around Oriental carry a legend of mysterious white dogs. One of its named witnesses was Davy Knouse, who was driving through the…