History & local legend
Lemon Hill overlooks the Schuylkill River above Boathouse Row in Philadelphia. The estate is associated with merchant Henry Pratt, who cultivated citrus in greenhouses and opened his pleasure gardens to paying visitors.
A ghost story recounted by Wooder Ice in 2015 describes two police officers seeing a woman leave the mansion and walk toward the river. Believing she needed help, they followed. According to the account, she disappeared before them. The officers and the date of their encounter are not identified in that version.
A separate tradition concerns the unexpected smell of lemons around the property.
