History & local legend
Building 4 at Fair Acres in Lima has a ghost story tied to its earlier use as a hospital ward. The county home moved to the former Pennell farm in 1857, and the campus changed considerably over the following generations. By 2014, the building contained offices occupied by several departments rather than the rows of beds remembered from its old layout.
An employee writing that October described coworkers’ reports of an elderly woman in the hallway. She had long gray hair and wore a hospital gown. According to those accounts, she walked along the corridor and disappeared through a wall.
Sources
- Ghosts of Delaware County, October 2014 Building Four employee and March 2015 staff accounts
- Fair Acres, institutional history and the 1857 relocation
- Fair Acres, facility directory and labeled aerial plan
- Fair Acres, numbered campus map showing Building 4
- Pennsylvania CareerLink Delaware County, Building 4 at the Lima campus
