Forbes Traveler magazine features Cashtown Inn in 'America's Haunted Hotels'

Adams County inn was headquarters for Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill

(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) - 11/4/2008

The Cashtown Inn, in Adams County, Pa., was included in a list of several haunted hotels across America.

 

The inn, in the summer of 1863, served hundreds of unwelcome strangers, including Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill. The town was transformed into an army camp for several days while the Battle of Gettysburg raged just eight miles to the east. The Cashtown Inn bustled with activity during this time while Confederate officers and their staffs were quartered here.

 

“Quite a few haunted hotels harbor a history as a wartime station for rest or recuperation,” the article stated. “Some of those fallen soldiers seem not to have left.”

 

In addition to the Cashtown Inn, the article featured the following hotels:

 

Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colo.

RMS Queen Mary, Port of Long Beach, Calif.

The Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Mass.

Hotel Provincial, New Orleans, La.

The Heathman Hotel, Portland, Ore.

Homespun Farm, Griswold, Conn.

 

The Cashtown Inn also recently appeared on “Ghost Hunters” on the SciFi Channel, where paranormal investigators allegedly caught a picture frame turning around on its own while the crew filmed overnight. The inn was also featured on the Travel Channel’s “Mysterious Journeys” and was a scene in the movie “Gettysburg.”

 

To read a copy of the article, visit www.forbestraveler.com/resorts-hotels/americas-haunted-hotels-story.html.