Wehrum, Pennsylvania

Wehrum is an abandoned coal mining company town in Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States, that thrived for a time during the early 20th century.

Essentially all that remains of Wehrum today are shadowy remnants of some of the streets and various building foundations hidden in the woods.

Wehrum was founded as a non-union company town in 1901 by Judge A. V. Barker and Warren Delano, maternal uncle of Franklin Roosevelt.

It was named after Henry Wehrum, general manager of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company.

[1] In what was perhaps a playful reference to New York City, several of the small town's street names were evocative of lower Manhattan (e.g., "Broadway" and "The Bowery").

In 1903, the Pennsylvania Railroad extended passenger service on its Ebensburg & Blacklick Branch from Vintondale past Wehrum.

Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church cemetery, built between 1902 and 1904 on land purchased by Saint Tikhon of Moscow.

Its remains can still be found deep in the woods leading up the mountain from where the Allegheny Trail passes through the area.