History & local legend
The former Guthsville Hotel in Lehigh County, later Magnolia's Vineyard restaurant, has a legend about Magnolia Evans. In the story, she cared for a wounded Confederate soldier, fell in love with him and waited for him to return after the Civil War. He never came back, and her figure was said to appear near Jordan Creek and the hotel windows.
A later family's experience gave the tradition a different setting. Their children normally waited across the street until their mother signaled from an upstairs window that it was safe to cross. One day they entered before she had waved. The children said a woman upstairs had already beckoned them across, and they had assumed she was their mother. The family associated that helpful figure with Magnolia.
