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Topographic map marking the cemetery on the ridge above the place identified as Crumb in Shade Township.Cemeteries

Crum–Oldham Cemetery

Crum Cemetery, a small wooded burial ground near Windber, contains generations of Crum and Oldham family graves. One local legend names Rebecca Crum…

A white memorial wall curves beside open ground at Flight 93 National Memorial, with yellow wildflowers across the foreground.Outdoors

Flight 93

Robert Wagstaff began working as a security guard in November 2001 at the field near Shanksville where United Flight 93 had crashed on September 11.…

Rail tracks lead into the dark rectangular upper drift portal at Eureka Mine No. 40.Outdoors

Former Eureka Branch No. 40 at the Berwind-White Mine 40 complex

Eureka No. 40 was a Berwind-White coal mine in the Scalp Level area near Windber. Built in 1902 and served by a Pennsylvania Railroad branch, it…

Aerial view of the hotel beside the railway, with the large painted game board visible on the central roof.Inns & businesses · Aerial view

Grand Midway Hotel

Filmmaker Blair Murphy bought the Grand Midway Hotel in Windber in 2001 after learning it was listed for sale on eBay. He moved into the…

The wooded shoreline, earthen embankment and intake at North Fork Reservoir near Johnstown.Cemeteries

North Fork Dam

North Fork Dam, a reservoir in Somerset County near Johnstown, has a small cemetery in the woods nearby. In an account posted in October 2007, a…

The 1916 insurance map labels Leister House, with its saloon and office, beside Windber’s fire department on 15th Street.Inns & businesses

Windber Hotel

The Windber Hotel on 15th Street, formerly the Leister House, was the workplace of a man named Jeff who contributed two experiences to a ghost-story…