History & local legend
The former Hundred Acre Pool, also known as Sully’s Pool, lies within South Park’s landscape of summer recreation. Clarence Hopson remembered traveling there as a child with his mother and sisters on buses from Pittsburgh’s Hill District. For Black families such as his, the pool offered a welcome escape from the city during hot weather.
After the site became associated with Hundred Acres Manor, employees reported figures that seemed connected to its earlier use. In an account collected by Ron Ieraci in 2011, a worker chased someone running across a room. As he drew closer, he saw the runner’s feet appearing to sink into the floor to the ankles, as though moving through shallow water. The figure then disappeared.
Another story concerns an older pool employee seen near the place where he once sat for lunch.
