Haunted Inns of the Southeast

by Turnage, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780895872340
• ISBN10: 089587234X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: John F Blair Pub

Summary

Inns attract the transients among us, those filled with wonderlust. In Sheila Turnage's new book, Haunted Inns of the Southeast, she tells the stories not of the living transients who frequent inns for a good night's rest, but the stories of the dead who share their sleep. Haunted Inns of the Southeast tells the stories of the ghosts who inhabit the inns of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The stories are grouped according to each state; each state has from five to eighteen stories. One inn with a particularly exciting or frightful tale is singled out for special coverage in each chapter. Featured inns include Grace Hall in Selma, Alabama; Don Cesar Resort in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida; Jekyll Island Club Hotel on Jekyll Island, Georgia; Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana; King's Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi; the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina; the Inn at Merridun in Union, South Carolina; Newbury House in Rugby, Tennessee; and the Boxwood Inn in Newpor

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Louisiana	3	(36)
``Murder at the Myrtles'' (Myrtles Plantation)	3	(5)
Cheneyville	8	(3)
Loyd Hall Plantation	8	(3)
Lafayette	11	(2)
T'Frere's House and Garconniere	11	(2)
New Orleans	13	(18)
Andrew Jackson Hotel	13	(3)
The Bourbon Orleans Hotel	16	(3)
A Creole House	19	(2)
Dauphine House	21	(1)
Hotel Villa Convento	22	(1)
Lafitte Guest House	23	(2)
The Olivier House	25	(2)
The Place d'Armes Hotel	27	(2)
The McGuinnes Mansion	29	(1)
St. Vincent's Guest House	30	(1)
St. Francisville	31	(1)
Myrtles Plantation	31	(1)
St. Martinville	32	(1)
Bienvenue House	32	(1)
Sunset	33	(3)
Chretien Point Plantation Bed-and-Breakfast	33	(3)
Vacherie	36	(3)
Oak Alley Plantation	36	(3)
Mississippi	39	(18)
``Madeline and Friends'' (King's Tavern)	39	(4)
Greenwood	43	(2)
Rivers' Inn	43	(2)
Natchez	45	(1)
King's Tavern	45	(1)
Monmouth Plantation	45	(1)
Pass Christian	46	(3)
Harbour Oaks Inn	46	(3)
Vicksburg	49	(8)
Anchuca Bed-and-Breakfast	49	(1)
Cedar Grove Inn	50	(3)
1902-08 Stained Glass Manor-Oak Hall	53	(4)
Alabama	57	(11)
``Miss Eliza and Barney Doolittle'' (Grace Hall)	57	(3)
Birmingham	60	(1)
Pickwick Hotel and Conference Center	60	(1)
Elba	61	(2)
Aunt B's Bed-and-Breakfast	61	(2)
Prattville	63	(2)
Rocky Mount Bed-and-Breakfast	63	(2)
Selma	65	(3)
Grace Hall	65	(1)
St. James Hotel	65	(3)
Florida	68	(23)
``The Dapper Mr. Rowe'' (Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa)	68	(5)
Cedar Key	73	(3)
Island Hotel and Restaurant	73	(3)
High Springs	76	(3)
The Grady House	76	(3)
Key West	79	(2)
Artist House	79	(1)
Eaton Lodge	80	(1)
Micanopy	81	(3)
Herlong Mansion Bed-and-Breakfast	81	(3)
St. Augustine	84	(6)
Casa Blanca Inn Bed-and-Breakfast	85	(2)
Casa de la Paz	87	(1)
St. Francis Inn	87	(3)
St. Petersburg Beach	90	(1)
Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa	90	(1)
Georgia	91	(21)
``Barons and Bellhops---Paradise on Hold'' (Jekyll Island Club Hotel)	91	(4)
Adairsville	95	(3)
Barnsley Inn and Golf at Barnsley Gardens	95	(3)
Grantville	98	(3)
Bonnie Castle	98	(3)
Jekyll Island	101	(1)
Jekyll Island Club Hotel	101	(1)
Macon	101	(3)
The 1842 Inn	101	(3)
Savannah	104	(6)
Hamilton-Turner House	104	(3)
The Kehoe House	107	(2)
17Hundred90 Inn, Restaurant, and Lounge	109	(1)
St. Marys	110	(2)
The Riverview Hotel	110	(2)
South Carolina	112	(30)
``Perfume, Pennies, and Pipe Smoke'' (The Inn at Merridun)	112	(3)
Charleston	115	(5)
The Battery Carriage House Inn	116	(1)
Jasmine House	117	(1)
Meeting Street Inn	118	(2)
Georgetown	120	(5)
DuPre House Bed-and-Breakfast	120	(2)
1790 House Bed-and-Breakfast	122	(3)
Moncks Corner	125	(2)
Rice Hope Plantation	125	(2)
Montmorenci	127	(2)
Annie's Inn Bed-and-Breakfast	127	(2)
Mount Pleasant	129	(3)
Guilds Inn	129	(3)
North Augusta	132	(2)
Rosemary Hall	132	(2)
Pawleys Island	134	(2)
Litchfield Plantation	134	(2)
Summerville	136	(3)
Price House Cottage	136	(3)
Union	139	(3)
The Inn at Merridun	139	(1)
Juxa Plantation	139	(3)
North Carolina	142	(30)
``The Pink Lady'' (Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa)	142	(7)
Asheville	149	(6)
Biltmore Village Inn	150	(3)
The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa	153	(1)
WhiteGate Inn and Cottage	154	(1)
Bald Head Island	155	(2)
Theodosia's	155	(2)
Balsam	157	(2)
Balsam Mountain Inn	157	(2)
Beaufort	159	(4)
Cousins	159	(2)
Elizabeth Inn	161	(2)
Glendale Springs	163	(2)
Glendale Springs Inn and Restaurant	163	(2)
Lake Lure	165	(3)
Lodge on Lake Lure	165	(3)
New Bern	168	(1)
New Berne House Inn	168	(1)
Southport	169	(2)
The Brunswick Inn	169	(2)
Wilmington	171	(1)
Virginia	172	(35)
``Miss Nannie: At Home in The Boxwood Inn'' (The Boxwood Inn)	172	(5)
Abingdon	177	(3)
Martha Washington Inn	177	(3)
Champlain	180	(2)
Linden House Bed-and-Breakfast Plantatioin	180	(2)
Hampton	182	(4)
Chamberlin Hotel	182	(4)
Hardy	186	(2)
Overhome	186	(2)
Harrisonburg	188	(2)
By the Side of the Road Bed-and-Breakfast	188	(2)
Middletown	190	(2)
Wayside Inn of 1797	190	(2)
Newport News	192	(1)
The Boxwood Inn	192	(1)
Norfolk	192	(3)
Page House Inn	192	(3)
Sperryville	195	(2)
Conyers House Country Inn and Stable	195	(2)
Portsmouth	197	(1)
Glen Coe Bed-and-Breakfast	197	(1)
Staunton	198	(5)
Belle Grae Inn	198	(3)
Thornrose House at Gypsy Hill	201	(2)
Williamsburg	203	(4)
The Brick House Tavern	203	(2)
The Orell House	205	(2)
Tennessee	207
``Spirit-filled Rugby'' (Newbury Inn)	207
Athens	211
Woodlawn Bed-and-Breakfast	211
Bolivar	213
Magnolia Manor Bed-and-Breakfast	213
Jonesborough	215
Hawley House	215
McMinnville	217
Falcon Manor	217
Mountain City	220
Prospect Hill Bed-and-Breakfast Inn	220
Rugby	221
Newbury Inn	221
Sevierville	221
Little Greenbrier Lodge	221