Most Haunted Places in America

Originally part of Berkley Plantation, Edgewood Plantation was built by Spencer Rowland of New Jersey on land purchased by Benjamin Harrison around 1849. It was built by Harrison’s Mill, a gristmill, originally constructed in 1725. It is this reason that historians believe both the mill and house survived the civil war, it provided food for soldiers of both armies. Today, the haunted Edgewood Plantation is believed to never be fully empty. There is plenty of history to go around at Edgewood however as it has served as a post office, telephone exchange, restaurant and a nursing home. During the Civil war, the third floor was used as a signal post for the Confederates to spy on McClellan’s Army and JEB Stuart stopped there during hisRead More…

Most Haunted Places in America: The Charleston County Jail In 1680, a plot of land consisting of 4 square acres was set aside for public use in what would become Charleston, South Carolina. On that plot of land there was a hospital, poor house, workhouse for runaway slaves, and from 1802 to 1939, the Charleston County Jail. Some say that people are still wandering around making the now haunted Charleston County Jail a great place to visit. In the beginning, the first structures were a workhouse for slaves and makeshift hospital for “paupers, vagrants, and beggars.”  During these years criminals were punished with by way of shackles, whippings, and being deprived of food and water. Over the years the torture and executions seemed to increaseRead More…

Most Haunted Places in America: Hill View Manor A.L. Thayer was commissioned by Lawrence County in 1925 to build a building that would be suitable to house and care for the helpless, aged and mentally ill of the county. The Lawrence County Poor House opened its doors in 1926 and featured many facilities that were not seen in other structures of its time. To many the current unseen residences still believe the haunted Hill View Manor is the place to be. Some of the features included separate living quarters for men and woman, a hospital, kitchen, laundry, cemetery, separate section for officers and employees, a chapel as well as its own bomb shelter. After the purchase of some land by the local golf course, theRead More…

The history of the haunted St. Albans in Radford, VA., starts out peacefully as the St. Albans School, a boy’s school. Nine years later in 1911 the school was closed due to lack of interest. Unhappy with the way things were being run at the nearby Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Marion (now Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute), Dr. John King bought the building along with 56 acres and St. Albans was opened in 1915. In 1915, psychiatry was just in its beginnings and treatment of the mentally ill was not a highly pursued field of medicine. Though some perceived the early days of St. Albans as more a resort for the mentally ill the first medications used, opium, belladonna extract, mercury, and strychnine as wellRead More…