History & local legend
Ice Pond, west of Ligonier beside Route 30, once supplied ice to local businesses. Its old icehouse later offered a different kind of accommodation as part of Lady of the Lake bed-and-breakfast. Travel writer Valerie Petersen and her husband, Chip, stayed in the Lily of the Valley room during a visit she described for AAA Motorist.
The couple walked beside the pond during the day, encountering geese and swans. That night, while they were the only guests in the icehouse, a glass fixture broke downstairs. The building already had a reputation for a friendly ghost, and Petersen included the interruption in her account of the stay. The next morning brought a more familiar sound: a rooster crowing outside.
Sources
- Valerie Petersen for AAA Motorist, eyewitness account reprinted on the inn’s own archived site
- Local Lincoln Highway history, Shirey ice lake, former ice business and Lady of the Lake property
- Loyalhanna Watershed Association, Middle Loyalhanna drainage plan, locates the inn by the confluence with Twomile Run
- TopoQuest, geographic names coordinates for Ice Pond and its dam