LOCATION FILE
Sutherlin Mansion
FOLLOWDanville, VA
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An 1859 Italianate mansion built for tobacco industrialist Major William Sutherlin, briefly the residence of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in April 1865, earning Danville the nickname "Last Capital of the Confederacy"; it now houses the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Staff and visitors report disembodied footsteps, a woman's figure reflected in mirrors, phantom cigar smoke, and a girl's faint moaning from within the walls.
VISITING
Open to the public as a museum.
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