The Haunted Mill in Tatamy has been used for many purposes over the years, including a coffee mill, a silk mill, a broom factory, a buggy factory, and the book barn. But it was the original use as a barracks for the railroadmen where the story begins. At the turn of the 20th century the railroad came through and they needed men to build it. Hard men who fell on hard times came from near and far to pick up work. Many of them had nothing, and nothing to lose.

Next to the old grist mill on Bushkill Creek, the railroad company built the huge barracks building where the men would come to live as they went out each day on the train, and rode to the end of the line to build the railroad. It was hard work and hard living, and many men met a gruesome demise while working on the railroad. There was also drinking and gambling back at the barracks that led to more tragic fate for some of the men. The most horrific of events occurred in 1920 when the barracks burned to the ground and took scores of men to their fiery deaths along with it. It is said that the tortured souls of the railroad men have wandered the grounds of the old mill ever since.

The barracks were rebuilt 5 years later, albeit somewhat smaller than the original. When the railroad men came back the boss man was driven mad, and some of the railroad men would periodically, and inexplicably, disappear. It was some years later when his torture chamber was discovered, along with the remains of those railroad men. Now their souls seek vengeance, and each night when the work whistle blows, the Ghost Train runs…

Tatamy in 1950