The Weeden House – Huntsville
One of Huntsville’s most historically significant homes is the Weeden House. It was built in 1819 in the Federalist style for Huntsville entrepreneur Henry C.…
Category: Haunted Alabama
Sturdivant Hall – Selma
Sturdivant Hall was built between 1852 and 1856 for Col. Edward T. Watts. The Greek Revival mansion was designed by architect Thomas Helm Lee, a…
Spence-Moon House – Livingston
The Spence-Moon House was built in 1834 on eighty acres of land for James H. Spence. Artisans from Connecticut and New Hampshire built this house…
Richards DAR House – Mobile
The Richards DAR House was built by a steamboat captain from Maine. Charles G. Richards married Caroline Elizabeth Steele in 1842. Before long, the itinerant…
The Dunning House – Thomasville
The Dunning House was built by George Dunning in 1897. He was an entrepreneur who once owned several businesses in Thomasville, including a livery stable…
Bluff Hall – Demopolis
Francis Strother Lyon (1800-82), the first owner of Bluff Hall, was a prominent lawyer and politician in West Alabama. He was a member of one…
The Beavers House – Cuba
The tranquility of small-town life in Cuba was shattered on May 22, 1978, when two fugitives from an Oklahoma prison—Eugene Dennis and Michael Lancaster, both…
Baldwin Hill – Livingston
Julian Ennis built the house on Baldwin Hill in 1901. Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, people began telling ghost stories about…
Attalla Wood Bridge – Atalla
Attalla – Attalla Wood Bridge – Some people say that a school bus full a kids fell of the bridge and went into the lake…
Athens State College – Athens
In 1822, the Athens Female Academy was established on land donated by Alabama Supreme Court Judge John McKinley. The school that was to become Athens…