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1st place winner of the 2024 Pennsylvania Heritage Songwriting Contest, “Peddler’s Grave” is an authentic ghost story from the anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania. 

Schuylkill County’s remote Peddler’s Grave is the final resting place of a traveling peddler, victim of the first murder recorded in the anthracite region of PA in 1797.

Legend says the peddler’s ghost still wanders the lonesome woods of the mountain setting, searching for the horse he lost in the robbery that claimed his life.

Lyrics and music by Christopher Carithers, 2020.


Check out the Pennsylvania Heritage Songwriting Contest-
https://smokedcountryjam.com/phsc/

Learn more about Peddler’s Grave-
https://www.mahanoyhistory.org/peddle...

Hear more at www.christophercarithers.com

Chris Carithers

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