Pennsylvania, Adams County

Cashtown. Rather than shun para-publicity, the proprietors of the Cashtown Inn, 1325 Old Route 30, link to multiple articles about the historic hotel's haunted reputation from their excellent website: https://cashtowninn.com/press/. This is understandable, as the inn--only fifty years old at the time--was a gathering spot for the Confederate high command in summer 1863 en route to the Battle of Gettysburg, eight miles away. "There is an endless supply of stories about ghostly sightings," co-owner Jeremy Davis told the Gettysburg Times in 2021, but he was careful to add, "All the spirits are friendly." A previous owner took a different tack: "We've had nine runners," Jack Paladino told The Washington Post in 2015--a runner being "a guest who flees in the dead of night." He added, "Sometimes keys are left hanging on the door."

Gettysburg: Lincoln's address. When Congress, more than 40 years after the president’s death, belatedly created a Lincoln Memorial Commission in February 1911, one of its early ideas was to create a new Lincoln Highway connecting the District of Columbia (where Lincoln served and died) and Gettysburg (where he delivered his most celebrated speech). Congress opted for a D.C. monument instead, whereupon automobile-headlamp manufacturer Carl G. Fisher and his fellow boosters promptly claimed the proposed name for their own transcontinental highway project. As a result, the Lincoln Highway that was dedicated on Halloween 1913—nine years before D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial was completed—did indeed pass through Gettysburg, but on a 3,400-mile east-west route, rather than an 82-mile north-south one. See Mikkelson, David. “Laus Deo and Washington Monument.” Snopes.com. 5 December 2003. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/washington-monument/. See also “Lincoln Highway.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Highway.