LOCATION FILE
Bacon's Castle
FOLLOWSurry, VA
DIRECTIONS →OVERVIEW
Built in 1665 for planter Arthur Allen, Bacon's Castle is the oldest documented brick house in English North America; it takes its name from its brief 1676 occupation by followers of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Local legend describes a fireball that races from the upper floors down the stair tower and across the fields toward a nearby colonial cemetery; other reports include a woman in white seen atop the stair tower, moving furniture, and unexplained voices.
VISITING
Open to the public for tours, including haunted-history programs.
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