Cashtown Inn:
Located in Vashton, PA

Built in 1797, the Cashtown Inn, west of Gettysburg, served as one of the first stagecoach lay-overs in the Pennsylvania area. During the campaign of Gettysburg of 1863, General A. P. Hill used the Inn as the Confederate headquarters. Confederate soldiers took over the town.
Numerous activities have been reported by guests of this 1797 Inn, to and include the sighting of a Confederate soldier, footsteps being heard to walk across the third level floor, cold spots, a rocking chair moving on its own and dresser photo's being moved around. This inn, appeared in the movie "Gettysburg," and was featured in the books and videos, "Ghosts of Gettysburg" and "Haunted Gettysburg."
The basement of the Inn was used as a field hospital and it is said that amputated limbs were piled so high that they blocked the sunlight from entering the basement windows.
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