{"id":613,"slug":"laquin-laquin-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Laquin is the sawed — the '1902' that's the founding's year, the '2,000' that's the town's peak. The 'five companies' is the worked — the 'stave' that's the mill's product, the 'bark to tanneries' that's the hide's feed. The 'ordered out' is the emptied — the 'company owned' that's the houses' truth, the 'tore down' that's the lumber's salvage.","The 'poem' is the sung — the 'Hell' that's the town's comparison, the 'soot' that's the workers' skin. The 'CCC' is the planted — the '1933' that's the corps' year, the 'replanting' that's the mountain's heal. Laquin is the reunioned — the 'third Sunday' that's the July's date, the 'Hugo's Grove' that's the gathering's name.","The file keeps Laquin: the sawed mountain, the emptied houses, the sung poem, and the reunioned ghosts.","Laquin is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the town that lives one day a year."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Laquin is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the lumber camp that sold its own bones.","A town keeps its grove — the file's suggestion being that Laquin's hold is the salvaged: the 'tore down' that's the company's economics, the 'CCC' that's the forest's repair, and the 'reunion' that's the people's memory."]}],"name":"Laquin","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Former wood-products town and later conservation camp on Barclay Mountain.","full_desc":"Laquin is a ghost town in Laquin, Pennsylvania. Former wood-products town and later conservation camp on Barclay Mountain. Founded in 1902, Laquin supported five wood-processing businesses. All plants had closed by 1932. A Civilian Conservation Corps camp operated from 1933 to 1940; by 1941 the town had no residents and few remaining buildings.","address":null,"city":"Laquin","county":"Bradford","state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.8025,"lon":-76.46312,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"ABANDONED","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":1902,"year_closed":1941,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Do not assign museum address to vanished town. Former Barclay Township geography and current Franklin/LeRoy boundaries require a site-specific map.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":55,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Founded in 1902, Laquin supported five wood-processing businesses. All plants had closed by 1932. A Civilian Conservation Corps camp operated from 1933 to 1940; by 1941 the town had no residents and few remaining buildings. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Area History' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Area History","url":"https://leroyheritage.org/area-history","publisher":"LeRoy Heritage Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Area History","url":"https://leroyheritage.org/area-history","publisher":"LeRoy Heritage Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2},{"name":"Museum Collection","url":"https://leroyheritage.org/museum-collection","publisher":"LeRoy Heritage Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}