History & local legend
The former Westmoreland Glass factory in Grapeville employed generations of workers making milk-glass dishes and novelty containers. A local resident writing as Cj described figures who seemed to continue leaving the factory long after its working day had ended.
Cj remembered seeing the walkers both as a child and as an adult, sometimes with other people present. They appeared in the middle of the road beside the factory. A driver would slow down and pull aside to pass, only to find that the people had disappeared.
Another figure wore work clothes and crossed neighboring yards. Dogs began barking in succession along his route, as though each had noticed him passing.
Sources
- Cj, firsthand Grapeville account, Ghosts of America, page 3
- Continuation and contributor credit on page 4
- Federal Historic American Engineering Record, HAER PA-315, factory and furnaces
- Trib Total Media, collectors Jackie and Ken Kosoglow on Westmoreland Glass and its products
- Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, factory record 1989RE00690
