History & local legend
Royer Mansion near Williamsburg in Blair County was the home of an ironmaking family. Its best-known apparition is associated with Carrie Hartman, wife of Royer Hartman. After her husband died in the late 1940s, she continued spending summers at the mansion until 1965, the year she died there.
Pennsylvania author Patty Wilson recounted the story in a September 2011 article. Two girls from Saxton arranged to tour the mansion for a history project. When they arrived, an older woman in a housedress was sweeping the back porch. She did not acknowledge them, and the girls became frightened and left.
They later called to apologize to the woman who had arranged the tour. She explained that she had forgotten their appointment and had never gone to the house that day. When the girls described the woman they had seen, people familiar with the mansion recognized the description as resembling Carrie Hartman.
