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State: Pennsylvania
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg National Military Park is often described as one of America’s most haunted landscapes. That reputation did not begin with a single ghost tale. It grew from the scale of the Battle of Gettysburg, the memories carried by survivors, and generations of visitors trying to understand what happened across these Pennsylvania fields. Before considering the stories, it is important to begin with the documented history.
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Historic place
Gettysburg, PA
The Baltimore Street house preserves the civilian setting where twenty-year-old Jennie Wade was killed on July 3, 1863.
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Historic place
Philadelphia, PA
Founded in 1836, Laurel Hill is a landmark rural cemetery whose art, landscape, and public programming shaped American memorial culture.
Legend
Historic place
Pittsburgh, PA
H. H. Richardson designed the Allegheny County Courthouse and former jail complex, completed in the late 1880s and linked by the Bridge of Sighs; most of the old jail later became court space.
Legend
Historic place
Spring City, PA
A former Pennsylvania institution campus whose disability-rights and civil-rights history requires prominent, careful treatment before its ghost lore is discussed.
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Historic place
Philadelphia, PA
Built in 1765, the Powel House interprets elite Georgian domestic life, politics, preservation, and the labor that sustained the household.
Legend
Historic place
Gettysburg, PA
The restored 1860 Shriver House explains how battle, occupation, military service, captivity, and loss changed one Gettysburg family.
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