History & local legend
Sharp Mountain south of Pottsville’s Henry Clay Monument is the setting for a tragic lovers’ legend recorded by Ella Zerbey Elliott in Old Schuylkill Tales, published in 1906. Elliott called the young woman Wanomanie and her father Sagawatch.
In her telling, Sagawatch refused to let his daughter marry the man she loved. Wanomanie leaped from the rocky heights, and her lover followed her to his death. Her father remained on the ridge, looking down after them.
The ghostly scene was said to return during harvest season. On a misty, moonlit evening, observers might see the woman leap, the man follow and the father lean over the edge.
