Tag: National Historic Landmark

Without the misfortune of dying right before the Declaration of Independence, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) would be considered one of our country’s most prominent founding fathers. He was elected president of the First and Second Continental Congress, before dying of a stroke while dining with Thomas Jefferson. His home, expanded and modified over the intervening decades,…

The most active phantoms in Peyton Randolph House are said to be those of the Peachey children, Sally and Mary. T.G. Peachey owned the house after the Randolphs, and he and his family are buried somewhere on the grounds. One security guard reportedly heard the laughter of children and the sound of tiny feet running…

The hauntings at the Peyton Randolph House date back to its earliest days. Famed French general Marquis de Lafayette, who helped win the battle against Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, stayed there during his 1824 tour and reportedly described feeling a phantom hand on his shoulder and being awoken by disembodied voices during the night. Whether…

The Peyton Randolph House retained its original pine floors, walnut paneling, and brass hinges and locks, but some visitors insist it retained something immaterial as well. It’s been called the most haunted house in America, possibly the most haunted on the East Coast, and certainly the most haunted in Virginia, but no one is quite…

Is the Peyton Randolph House cursed by a slave woman named Eve, or haunted by the agonized souls of Betty Randolph’s other slaves? Do the ghosts of two children who died at the home play in its halls? Or how about Civil War soldiers who succumbed to their wounds? Or is it because American Indian…

This Georgian-style house, at least the western wing at the corner of Nicholson and North England Streets, was built in 1715 by William Robertson. By the early 1900s, the historic house had fallen into disrepair, so during restoration in 1939 the east wing had to be torn down and reconstructed. The house was designated a…