Places in Pennsylvania
Photos from 3/13 I drove by this a few times on the way to New Hope and was curious what exactly it was. After being assigned a paper for a Museum Studies class and randomly choosing Fonthill Castle from a list of local museums, I got my answer. ...
Photos from June 2013 I was told of a rock not too far from me that resembled a Native American face, appropriately named Profile Rock. The stone face is found on Route 42 between Catawissa and Bloomsburg. Unfortunately, it’s also located right at a bend in the road,...
Photos taken October 2011 Another discovery through geocaching. We stopped here on the way home from our Quebec/New York trip. This may look like a gas station from the 1950’s, but this is really the side yard of someone’s home in Hallstead. Vintage soda machines, signs, and gas...
Another curiosity I found through the wonders of geocaching. This was on my to-do list for about 5 years before I finally headed up to Susquehanna County in northeast PA to find it. Much like my Sheppton trip, I decided to make this a day of geocaching and...
Now that’s a deep hole. This is allegedly the largest pothole in the world, though I haven’t seen anything official confirming this. The pothole was found accidentally in 1884 when miners were blasting underground. The pothole was cleared out and was initially a privately owned tourist attraction. It’s...
In August of 1963, three miners were stuck 330 feet below the ground when the Sheppton mine caved in. Two of the miners stuck together and waited two weeks for rescue, initially eating tree bark and sucking water out of the bark for survival. Within a week, holes...
