History & local legend
Towamensing Cemetery near Fireline Road in Palmerton is associated with a ghostly horseman. A May 2003 discussion on the Lehigh Valley Ghosthunters forum shows how different versions of the story circulated locally.
The group asked about a mounted figure described in a book by Charles J. Adams III as a Civil War soldier. A respondent named Chad recognized the cemetery, especially its older section, from a tale his grandfather had told him.
Chad remembered the rider as a soldier from the French and Indian War, roughly a century earlier than the Civil War.
Sources
- Chad, May 14, 2003, firsthand account of his grandfather’s story, Lehigh Valley Ghosthunters, Fireline Road and old cemetery section
- Lehigh Valley Ghosthunters, May 13, 2003, original inquiry concerning Charles J. Adams’s account
- New Towamensing Cemetery, official location and history
- OpenStreetMap, Towamensing Cemetery boundary
