History & local legend
Cove Forge near Williamsburg in Blair County was an ironworking settlement where workers turned pig iron into bars. A later story concerned a house on the grounds that had become an office, with a child's singing reportedly heard from its attic.
The explanation told locally was that a girl had lived there with her grandparents. Her grandfather resented caring for her and confined her upstairs for much of the day. People who heard old children's songs in the attic associated the voice with that child, imagining her continuing to sing in the room where she had spent so much time.
Sources
- Pennsylvania Researchers Organization, Blair County case database, Williamsburg entry for Cove Forge House
- National Park Service, Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, Juniata River Corridor study, Cove Forge remains on the treatment-center site
- Royer family historical compilation, account of the Cove Forge hammers and the production of bar iron, and historical home photograph
- Cove Forge Behavioral Health, location of the main Williamsburg campus
