History & local legend
Seven Stars Inn on Ridge Road near Phoenixville took its name in 1804, when John Baker rented Michael Cyfer's tavern. Its upstairs rooms have accumulated several different apparition stories. Older accounts describe a boy in a dining room that was once a guest room and a man leaning over the stairwell.
In an account posted on August 24, 2019, a former busser described returning upstairs for a forgotten phone. The back room's lights were off and its door was closed. Through the small window in the door, the worker saw a white figure wearing a dress and immediately went downstairs.
Sources
- Anonymous former Seven Stars busser, firsthand account posted August 24, 2019, in the Seven Stars Inn visitor comments
- The Shadowlands, Phoenixville, Historical Seven Stars Inn, 2004 collection, documents the boy and man on the second floor
- Estelle Cremers, 30,000 Acres, East and West Vincent township history, old tavern petitions and John Baker’s rental in 1804
- Chester County’s Brandywine Valley, Seven Stars Inn, official county tourism listing
- Schuylkill Highlands, regional plan, 2011, specifies Hoffecker Road at Route 23
