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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:21:12 EDT
Fire Island ,New York
Fire Island Lighthouse - Fire Island's roots go back to 1653, when Isaac
Stratford of Babylon constructed a whaling station on the Island and named it
Whalehouse Point. Around the 1920's, Fire Island developed into a Bohemian
retreat. The rum flowed in and the beaches were littered with copies of Variety
and Billboard, the saloons were filled with bohemian writers and musicians.
Rumors of a caretaker said to have hung himself in the original lighthouse.
Reports of heavy doors swinging open, unexplained laughter and knocking, window
that open and numerous cold spots.
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Johnstown ,New York
Johnson Hall - built in 1763 Johnstown was the home of Sir William Johnson,
a Scottish immigrant who became a wealthy fur trader, and the colonies' most
important ambassador to the powerful Iroquois nation. Reports of a female
apparition in the kitchen area.
Route 29W to Hall Avenue
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Lake Ronkonkoma ,New York
The Lady of the Lake - two versions of the Lady of the Lake. One of an
Indian Princess her groom murdered by a white settler living in Ronkonkoma so
distraught by the loss, she took her own life. As she entered the lake she vowed
to all, to avenge the death of her beloved by once each year taking a life in
the lake. The other version of this story is that the Indian Princess was
forbidden to marry a white skinned man she loved. The Indian Princess is said
to have rowed to the middle of the lake, tied rocks to her ankles and jumped
into the lake. Reports of moaning, whirlpools, and strange lights are said to
be the Princess grieving.
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New York City
One If By Land, Two If By Sea Restaurant - Built in the 18th Century, it
belonged to Aaron Burr, and is reported to be haunted by several ghosts.
Originally a carriage house owned and operated by Burr. Theodosia Burr Alston, who
vanished off the coast of North Carolina while on her way to visit her father
in New York, has been reported as an apparition as well as the ghost of Burr.
17 Barrow Street
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Rome .New York
Fort Stanwix - Built in 1758 to guard a strategic portage along a major
transportation route, guarded the centuries old Oneida Carrying Place.
Apparitions of soldiers have been sighted in various places through out the fort. At
sunrise the sounds of drums and fifes, footsteps, voices, chopping wood, lights
going on and off by themselves, and turning doorknobs.
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Stony Brook ,New York
Country House Restaurant -Obadiah Davis originally built it as a farmhouse
in 1710, for his family and as a stagecoach station. 1838, Thomas Hadaway, an
English actor and comedian, bought the house and named it The Hadaway House
reportedly Hadaway held frequent séances Now a restaurant said to be haunted
by the ghost of a young woman who was hanged by the British as a spy during
the revolutionary war. North of the house is an old cemetery, Four
Revolutionary War patriots are buried here.Route 25A
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