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Lycoming County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

Masten CCC Camp Campground

Night Voices at Masten

Postcard of the Sones sawmills with log piles, narrow rails and smokestacks at Masten.
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History & local legend

Masten was a lumber town in what is now Loyalsock State Forest. Charles Sones established the town and its mills in 1906, then sold the operation to the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company in 1917. The mills closed in 1930, and the last family reportedly left in 1941. Foundations and other remnants mark the former settlement near the campground and Old Loggers Path.

Its ghost stories concern the woods and campsites left behind. A regional folklore account describes lights among the trees, voices reportedly captured on recordings and figures seen near the old town.

Sources

  1. Mandrake_1975, Ghosts of Central Pennsylvania, 2011, Haunted Forests of Masten section
  2. Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, mills, last residents and edger saw
  3. Pennsylvania DCNR, Masten CCC camp dates and location
  4. OpenStreetMap camp boundary via Mapcarta
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State forest campground and Old Loggers Path trailhead.

Image credit

Unidentified photographer, Sawmills, Masten, Pa., circa 1917 photo postcard. Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Ann Haus Krout donation, LM2019.7.1. Public domain in the United States. · License