Most Haunted Places in America: Woodlawn Estate The Woodlawn Estate is a 126 acre estate located 3 miles from George Washington’s home in Mount Vernon. The main house was designed by the Dr. William Thornton, who was also the architect of the U.S. Capital and was built between 1800 and 1805 for Washington’s nephew, Major Lawrence Lewis and his bride, Eleanor “Nellie” Custis Lewis. During the 40+ years the Lewis’s owned the home it was comprised of over 2,000 acres. The Lewis’s used slave labor to help run the plantation until 1846 when they sold the home to two Quaker families. To prove how slavery was not needed to run a Southern plantation the new owners of Woodlawn sold lots to both free black andRead the Rest…

The Most Haunted Places in America: The North Island Lighthouse Located 10 miles from Georgetown, South Carolina overlooking the Winyah Bay is the North Island Lighthouse (also known as the Georgetown Lighthouse). This lighthouse has a history back into the early days of America. Land was donated in 1789 on North Island by Revolutionary War Patriot Paul Trapier but it took till 1801 for the first lighthouse to be built. It was a 72 foot pyramid type tower made out of Cypress wood that readily grew in the swamps in the area. Along with the lighthouse, a 2-story lighthouse keeper’s house was built along with a tank to hold whale oil. The whale oil was used to keep the six foot wide lantern lit toRead the Rest…

Most Haunted Places in America: Detroit’s Fort Wayne Sitting on the Detroit River about a mile from the Canadian shore sits a structure that is steep in American history, Fort Wayne. This star fort was started in 1844 when tensions were high along the border of Canada. It was finished in 1847 and ironically never used in battle; even the moat was never filled. It was however used up until the Vietnam War to house soldiers and swear-in draftees. Building continued on this site until 1931 and included such buildings as shops, hospital, recreation building, officer quarters, additional barracks and other buildings. It holds the Tuskegee Airmen Museum and is home to Civil War Reenactments. During the Great Depression the fort was opened to homelessRead the Rest…