Poe Mills
Poe Mills is a ghost town in Pennsylvania. Former lumber town now within Poe Paddy State Park. Poe Paddy State Park occupies the former lumber town of Poe Mills, which exceeded three hundred residents in 1890. A steam sawmill used dammed Poe Creek. Civilian Conservation Corps workers later built park facilities.
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Is Poe Mills haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Poe Paddy State Park is what a Pennsylvania lumber town looks like after the lumber runs out. The park's campgrounds and picnic grounds occupy the site of Poe Mills, a company town that counted more than three hundred residents by 1890, when the hemlock and pine of the Seven Mountains country were still worth a fortune.
The town existed for one reason: a steam sawmill powered by dammed Poe Creek, which gave the settlement its payroll and its name. When the timber was gone the town went with it — the standard Pennsylvania sequence, cut over and cleared out.
The second life
What the mill town left behind, the federal government rebuilt. Civilian Conservation Corps crews developed the site as a state park in the 1930s, part of the same New Deal-era reclamation that turned scores of exhausted Pennsylvania lumber tracts into public forest.
No haunting claims attach to this file; it documents an emptied town inside a public park, kept in the ghost-town ledger because the emptying itself is on record.
Documented history
Poe Paddy State Park occupies the former lumber town of Poe Mills, which exceeded three hundred residents in 1890. A steam sawmill used dammed Poe Creek. Civilian Conservation Corps workers later built park facilities. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'History of Poe Paddy State Park'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
Verified historyPennsylvania DCNR
Sources on file
- 01History of Poe Paddy State ParkPennsylvania DCNR · government · A1
Field notes & open questions
Former town site is distinguished from nearby Poe Valley State Park. No paranormal claim supplied by this historical source; exact mill and settlement geometry remains unverified.