Haunted Charlottesville and Surrounding Counties

by Susan Schwartz, Cliff Middlebrook Jr. (Photographer)

Overview

Charlottesville, Virginia, and its 12 surrounding counties are filled with history and charm. They also hold spirits who aren’t ready to leave their beloved homes or families behind. Visit more than 75 haunting locations with this experiential and historical guide. Shiver your way through haunted graveyards, mansions, parks, private residences, and other locations as you discover the past and learn of current lingering ghosts and the havoc they continue to instigate. Have you ever pondered about the spiritual implications from murders of olde? Think you might like to be pinched by a ghost or have your name called when no one is there? Interested in what a paranormal investigative group might find? Then make plans to explore these strange and frightening locations. Contact information is provided for those places allowing visitations. But when you visit, be ready for a haunting good time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764357596
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	06/28/2019
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	1,146,039
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan Schwartz has been an avid writer for ten years. She has published three short stories in the anthologies of Nightmare & Echoes I, II, and III. Cliff Middlebrook Jr.'s photographs have been published in magazines and books in Great
Britain and the United States, with photos displayed in businesses and homes across the country.

Table of Contents

Foreword 10

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction 13

1 Albemarle 15

Castle Hill Manor 15

Castalia Manor 17

Monticello 19

Michie Tavern 20

Mount Eagle Farm 24

Ash Lawn-Highland 25

Tandem Friends School 27

Carrsgrove Mansion 28

University of Virginia 28

Trax Night Club 35

Caspari 36

Inn at Court Square 37

Old Albemarle County Jail 38

Comyn Hall 41

Dunlora Mansion 44

Maplewood Cemetery 45

The Farm (Lewis Farm) 49

Silver Thatch Inn 49

Wickham Farmhouse 51

Tallwood 52

Sunny Bank 53

2 Greene/Madison/Culpeper 54

Greene 54

Lafayette Inn 54

Blue Ridge Pottery 55

Madison 57

Eagle House 57

Hunton House 58

The George H. Leitch House 59

The Thomas W. Welch House (Kemper Residence) 60

Old John Fishback House 61

The Old Captain Andrew Carpenter House 62

The Richard Blankenbaker House 63

Lovell 64

Thoroughfare Mountain Farm 65

Other Madison Homes 65

Culpeper 67

The Grass Rootes Restaurant 67

Brandy Station Battlefield and Graffiti House 70

Salubria Manor 73

3 Orange 76

Battle of the Wilderness 76

Ellwood Manor 79

The Inn at Willow Grove (Willow Grove Plantation) 80

Mayhurst Inn 82

Zachary Taylor House 83

Gordon-Barbour Elementary School 84

Exchange Hotel 85

4 Louisa/Fluvanna 98

Louisa 98

Hall's Store / Green Springs Depot 98

Trevilian Station and Battlefield 100

Jerdone's Castle 105

Spring Grove Memorial Cemetery 106

Country Way Store 107

Hawkwood 108

Fluvanna 109

Oakland Farm and School 109

Troy's Market & Deli 111

Fork Union Military Academy 113

Bremo Plantation, Bremo Recess, and Lower Bremo 114

5 Goochland 116

Waller Gold Mine 116

The Author's Home 117

Providence Presbyterian Church 118

Castello House 120

Grayhaven Winery 124

Barn beside Oilville Post Office 129

North Pole 129

Conway's Tombstone 131

Chestnut Hill (Plynlimmon) 131

Tuckahoe Plantation 132

6 Powhatan/Amelia 138

Powhatan 138

Sublett's Tavern 138

Powhatan Correctional Center 139

Shiloh Baptist Church 140

Fine Creek Baptist Church 142

Belnemus Plantation 143

Amelia 146

Amelia Wildlife Management Reserve 146

Haw Branch Plantation 147

Amelia Courthouse 148

Tribble Farm 149

Saylor's Creek Battlefield 152

Hillsman House 156

7 Cumberland/Nelson 162

Cumberland 162

Bear Creek Lake State Park 162

Nelson 164

Mark Addy Inn 164

Swanaanoa Palace 168

Conclusion 171

Bibliography 172

Index 182