LOCATION FILE
Dead Man's Hollow
FOLLOWMcKeesport, PA
DIRECTIONS →OVERVIEW
A 450-acre wooded ravine above the Youghiogheny River between McKeesport and Elizabeth Township, held by the Allegheny Land Trust and crossed by trails from the Great Allegheny Passage. The ruins of the Union Sewer Pipe Company works stand in it. The name is old: a man was found hanging in the hollow in 1874, and a boiler explosion at the pipe works killed workers in 1905; the trust records other deaths and a 1880s shooting.
HISTORY
The hollow was quarried and industrialised through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and then abandoned to woodland; the trust acquired it in the 1990s.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Walkers report sounds in the woods, movement in still foliage, and a figure near the pipe-works ruins. Pittsburgh guides and the trust's own history carry the stories; none is documented beyond the telling, and the deaths that gave the hollow its name are.
VISITING
Open daily as a conservation area; trails from the GAP trailhead at Boston, PA.
SITE PLAN
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EXTERNAL RESOURCES
INVESTIGATION RECORD
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COMMUNITY EVIDENCE
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GROUP FINDINGS