History & local legend
Livermore Cemetery overlooks the Conemaugh River corridor where the canal town of Livermore once stood. Local traditions place figures along the vanished settlement's shore, sometimes walking where water now covers the ground.
During Fourth of July weekend in 2011, two friends walked the old railroad trail below the cemetery around eight in the evening. They heard a sound first resembling coyotes, then a woman's scream, apparently coming from the graves or the trail above the fourth bridge.
Out on the bridge, they noticed perfume. One walker also recalled metal striking metal higher on the hill.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, first-person July 2011 accounts by celticcurse and XTCAccord
- Marc Boulware, visitor’s account of the old town, bridges, cemetery and shore legends
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Where to go: Livermore Cemetery, 2008
- PA-Roots, Livermore Cemetery geographic survey
- Kordite, photographed surviving abutments and piers from the old railway corridor at Livermore
