The Pennsylvania collection

Venango County

6 places. A county full of stories.

Discover local legends, historic places and the stories of sites you can explore virtually.

Former William Porter farm in the southern part of Pleasantville

Pleasantville’s oil boom has an unusual origin story involving Abraham James, a spiritualist medium who said the dead could help locate underground…

On October 8, 2005, Northwest Pennsylvania Hauntings visited Holmden Cemetery, the wooded burial ground associated with the former oil-boom town of…

The Oil Creek trail near Miller Farm Cemetery in Venango County has a legend about a woman in white. She is said to appear in a long gown in the…

Miller Farm Cemetery sits uphill from Oil Creek in Oil Creek State Park. Local stories describe a woman in a white dress moving among the graves,…

Doc Haggerty was a teamster in the Oil Creek region, hauling nitroglycerin used in the oil industry. In 1888, he delivered 1,400 pounds to a storage…

Plum Church Cemetery, also known as Small’s Cemetery, is a fenced burial ground on Small Road near Cooperstown. The Small family is among those…