Baldwin Tavern (Lancaster, Ohio)
Script error: No such module "Draft topics".
Script error: No such module "AfC topic".
.png)
The Baldwin Tavern (Also called the Baldwin Inn and The Baldwin Haunted House) was a historic house located in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States, just east of the city of Lancaster that was long reputed to be the site of many supernatural events. Built c.1818 by John Baldwin (1761-1840) and run as a tavern and stagecoach stop along the original Zane's Trace road, the house was the scene of at least two confirmed murders. For many years the inn was the subject of much local folklore. It was reportedly haunted by the ghosts of travelers who were murdered at the tavern in the 19th century. John Baldwin himself was rumored to have been one of Jean LaFitte's pirates who was given amnesty by President James Madison and used his ill gotten gains to buy a substantial amount of land in Fairfield County, Ohio after the War of 1812.[1] It was said Baldwin conspired with highwaymen to waylay travelers that stayed at the inn in return for a cut of the stolen profits which legend says he buried in secret locations in or near the tavern. John Baldwin died in 1840 and the property was inherited by his nephew, also named John Baldwin. The younger Baldwin was murdered there in November 1863 by a pair of thieves who beat him to death while he lay ill in his sickbed. After this tragedy the Baldwin heirs rented out the property, but never lived in the house again. For many years afterward people searched the area for the gold long believed to be hidden somewhere on the property. A family named Nisely rented the property and was said to have done serious damage to the foundation while digging for treasure in the basement of the house. There were many stories of the apparition of a Tall Thin Man that was said to haunt the upstairs bedroom where the murders took place. The inn and the nearby stone barn built by Baldwin were both demolished in 1951 to make way for a new housing development.[2] Even today legends persist that there is still buried treasure hidden by Baldwin in the area of the old tavern and this continues to attract the attention of ghost hunters and treasure seekers.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Baldwin's Inn On Pleasantville Pike at Edge of Lancaster Once Eerie Place". Lancaster Eagle Gazette. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Beyond the Baldwin Haunted House". Lancaster Eagle Gazette. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Ohio Treasure Legends". Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Lancaster's Old Baldwin Haunted House". Boy's Industrial School Journal Lancaster, Ohio 1928 pp.44-47. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
This article "Baldwin Tavern (Lancaster, Ohio)" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Baldwin Tavern (Lancaster, Ohio). Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
