Local legend holds that a cache containing a Revolutionary War-era payroll was buried somewhere on the mountain and remains there to this day.
Local legend holds that an actual temple was built somewhere on the ridge long ago.
Such a place is mentioned in History of the County of Westmoreland Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches with Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men.
718...[1] “but we have noticed that they are to be taken contrariwise when a churchly word is applied by a worldly people.
There is, for instance, a one-story log church, with bench seats, standing on top of the Chestnut Ridge, which having been built on land donated by Mr. Solomon Blank, has been for half a generation known as “Solomon's Temple,”