History & local legend
The Elias Fry Barn stands in Knob Hill Community Park in Marshall Township, near Cranberry. A local legend describes music and crowds returning after an alleged punk concert fire in the early 1990s. Neighbors supposedly heard a party and saw cars around the barn, only for both to disappear before police arrived.
The existing barn has a different, documented connection to that period: it was moved from a farm on Cardinal Drive to the park in 1992. Its marker honors local barn builder Philip Elias Fry.