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Wayne County

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Cirelly Road meets Smith Road beside fields and a wooded slope in Clinton Township.Outdoors

Cirelly Road at Smith Road

Cirelly Road near Waymart in Wayne County has a gravity-hill tradition: a vehicle appears to roll uphill when left to move freely. Local lore…

Brick Hotel Wayne at the corner of Main and West Park in Honesdale.Inns & businesses

Hotel Wayne

Hotel Wayne in Honesdale has accumulated stories of women in Victorian dresses climbing the stairs, babies crying and doors closing by themselves.…

Little Keen Road passing farm fields and a pond in Wayne County; landscape view of the road.Historic homes

Little Keen Road corridor

Little Keen Road runs through the farm country north of Waymart in Wayne County. A local haunting account credited to Jen Lynn connects an abandoned…

The mansion on Noble Lane and its curved drive on the former Strongman–Miller estate.Historic homes

Mansion at Noble Lane

The Strongman mansion on Noble Lane in Bethany became the home of Hortense and Byron Miller in 1923. Hortense was the daughter of John Strongman,…

The inn’s steeply pitched roofs, gardens and driveway alongside Main Avenue in Hawley.Inns & businesses

The Settlers Inn

The Settlers Inn in Hawley began as a community hotel project in the 1920s, built on the former Delaware and Hudson Canal bed. The stock market crash…