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State: Virginia
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Alexandria, VA
Merchant John Carlyle completed the Georgian stone house in 1753; its history includes colonial politics, enslaved workers, the Braddock conference, an adjacent hotel converted to a Union hospital, and a major twentieth-century restoration.
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Historic place
Alexandria, VA
The museum occupies a circa-1785 tavern and the 1792 City Tavern and Hotel, where enslaved labor sustained a prominent hospitality business serving travelers, civic gatherings, and political life in the early republic.
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Historic place
Williamsburg, VA
The Georgian house associated with jurist and teacher George Wythe reflects elite household life, law, politics, and slavery in eighteenth-century Williamsburg.
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Historic place
Williamsburg, VA
The Governor's Palace served Virginia's royal and early elected governors; the original complex burned in 1781 and the present building is a research-based twentieth-century reconstruction.
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Historic place
Alexandria, VA
Built in 1785, the house was home to Lee and Fendall family members, enslaved and free African Americans, served as a Union hospital, and later housed labor leader John L. Lewis before becoming a museum.
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Historic place
Williamsburg, VA
The Peyton Randolph property grew as an eighteenth-century urban household occupied by a prominent political family and by enslaved people whose work sustained it.
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Historic place
Williamsburg, VA
Williamsburg's Public Gaol held accused and convicted people, debtors, enslaved people, and some pirates within a colonial system of punishment and coercion.
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Historic place
Alexandria, VA
The Stabler and Leadbeater families operated an apothecary business from this site from the late eighteenth century until 1933, leaving an unusually intact collection of medicines, containers, records, and commercial spaces.
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Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Alexandria, VA
Alexandria developed on Piscataway and related Native homelands as a Potomac port shaped by tobacco, slavery, commerce, the federal district, Civil War occupation, rail and industry, Black community history, and preservation.
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Haunted town
Williamsburg, VA
Williamsburg became Virginia's colonial capital in 1699 and later developed into a major center for preservation, archaeology, education, and public history.
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