Photo Essay: Cumberland Cemetery

Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery near Jefferson, Pennsylvania

If you come across Parker Field in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, look just behind the visiting team’s bleachers. There you will find historic Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. For more than 250 years, this tiny burial grounds has given rest to nearly 250 locals.

The Palace Saloon

The Palace Saloon in Fernandina Beach, Florida

If you come across Parker Field in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, look just behind the visiting team’s bleachers. There you will find historic Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. For more than 250 years, this tiny burial grounds has given rest to nearly 250 locals.

The Tilley Bend Witch

The Church at Tilley Bend

A little further South, the Tilleys and the Stanleys were enmeshed in a battle of their own, one that stretched back a dozen years across the Blue Ridge Mountains. A series of vicious attacks between the clans resulted in more than a dozen deaths and gave rise to the legend of the Tilley Bend Witch.

Photo Essay: Old Davis Farm Cemetery

The Old Davis Farm Cemetery just outside of Sims, North Carolina

Driving through North Carolina, we stumbled upon a fenced thicket of trees alongside a county road just outside of Sims. It was a curious spot. The copse was oddly out of place, riding the edge of endless fields of harvested crops. We stopped on a chance, and our suspicions paid off.

The Rock Oven of Altamaha Swamp

The Rock Oven of Altamaha Swamp

Some haunted places in Georgia date from a time long before European settlers arrived. If you travel down the Altamaha River, just a few miles from the Edwin Hatch Power Plant, you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a limestone cliff set just above a small lagoon. This ridge was once home to a secretive tribe of Native Americans known only as the “Tama” by neighboring tribes.

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