History & local legend
Manwalamink, the old house associated with Fort Depuy at Shawnee, was used as a timeshare office when employees began reporting a woman’s apparition. The building stands near the site of the earlier frontier fort; the extensively remodeled house itself dates to about 1785.
Security guards, night watchmen and office workers described footsteps, sudden cold patches and doors opening after they had been locked. The woman was one part of that wider pattern of reported activity, appearing in rooms used for ordinary office work.
The Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau collected the accounts, which appeared in the Pocono Record in October 2004.
Sources
- Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau, accounts of the office workers and night watchmen, published in the Pocono Record, October 30, 2004
- National Register nomination for the Shrawder-Sittig House, architectural comparison identifies Manwalamink circa 1785 near the earlier Fort DuPuy site
- Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, Manwalamink–Fort Depui, state inventory site polygon
- Shawnee Inn’s self-guided historic walking tour, Stop D, identifies the Fort Depuy house used for offices
