History & local legend
Peter Hensinger built his hotel in 1846, and the surrounding village in Lehigh County became known as Hensingersville. It even had its own post office from 1858 to 1868. By the time Dennis William Hauck included the old hotel in Haunted Places, it was being used as a home.
Hauck's account names the resident presence Bucky and places it particularly in the kitchen. Other reports describe footsteps near the former bar and through upstairs bedrooms.
Sources
- Dennis William Hauck, Haunted Places, 2002, page 353, quoted with his directions in the source note for Hensingersville
- PIRA, Haunted Sites of Pennsylvania, 2004 archive, Old Hensingersville Hotel identifies the kitchen, bar and bedrooms
- Benjamin LeRoy Miller, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1941, page 73, and the Borough of Alburtis’s 2002 historical account, both excerpted in the Hensingersville reference notes
- Jim Forte Postal History, Lehigh County, Hensingersville post office, 1858 to 1868
