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The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky . In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-story facility able ...
Daniel Benton Homestead is a historic house museum in Tolland, Connecticut. It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of Hessian soldiers and 18th-century lovers Elisha Benton and Jemima Barrows, who tragically died from smallpox. Dudleytown is an abandoned town founded in the mid-1740s. It lies in the middle of a forested area in Cornwall. The ...
Director Billy D. Byrd has operated the site as a non-profit museum and local attraction, highlighting the paranormal experiences he has reported there. Currently, it is the site of the Octagon Hall Museum & Kentucky Confederate Studies Archive. It includes a library, a display of Civil War artifacts, Native American artifacts, and genealogical ...
March 11, 1971. White Hall State Historic Site is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington. White Hall was home to two legendary Kentucky statesmen: General Green Clay and his son General Cassius Marcellus Clay, as well as suffragists Mary Barr Clay and Laura Clay. On April 12, 2011, White Hall was designated as a ...
The Kentucky Museum is a history, arts, and culture museum located at 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky on the campus of Western Kentucky University. It includes 80,000 square feet of exhibit space. Archaeology, art, clothing and textiles, furniture, glassware ceramics, quilts, toys and games, and the newly opened "Instruments of ...
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto. A sanatorium (from Latin sānāre 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, [1] [2] is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments and convalescence.
Ashland (Henry Clay estate) / 38.02861°N 84.48000°W / 38.02861; -84.48000. Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by enslaved African Americans, and enslaved people grew and ...
McKamey Manor. Coordinates: McKamey Manor is an American haunted house attraction in which survival horror -style events are enacted. [1] [2] It is considered a pioneer of "extreme" haunted attractions. [3] Founded in San Diego by Russ McKamey, it was originally located on his property until it was moved to Tennessee in 2017. [4]