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Monroe County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

Former Memorytown USA

The Woman Sewing at Memorytown

The lakeside buildings and wooded grounds of the former Memorytown resort along Grange Road.

History & local legend

Memorytown USA in Monroe County was a Pocono attraction designed around an earlier America, with a blacksmith shop, country store and small boats on a pond. Stories from its guest lodgings described an older, pale-faced woman wearing gray and sitting quietly with her sewing. Some people remembered gloves in her hands; others said she was knitting or making a scarf.

Outside, guests spoke of seeing children on a swing set, then finding that no swings stood where the children had appeared.

Sources

  1. StrangeUSA, Memorytown, apparitions at lodgings on Grange Road
  2. Brooks Betz, memories and illustrated history of Memorytown USA
  3. Grange Valley, successor inn and address of Memorytown resort
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Visiting

Operating lakeside inn and resort.

Image credit

Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and NV5 Geospatial, Cycle 2 orthophotography, via Penn State PASDA · License