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Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales
Hope House - Tunis Mills Area -
Talbot County
Hope House located on the Wye River is one of the
great mansions of Talbot County and was once home to
the famous Lloyd and Tilghman families. It resembles
Mount Clare in Baltimore, home of Charles Carroll.
Col. Tench Tilghman, General Washington's
aide-de-camp resided here.
There is an old tale about the boxwood gardens of
Hope House being haunted. The gardens are said to
have run all the way down to the water.
A beautiful young girl lived who once lived at Hope
House. One night, a Spanish ship sailed up to Hope
House and a handsome Spanish officer came ashore. He
and the girl fell in love. However, he soon had to
leave and could not take the girl with him. She
pined away. now, on moonlit nights, she walks in the
boxwood garden down to the water's edge, looking for
her lover.
Today, Hope House is a private home.
* Sources: Salisbury University, Nabb Research
Center, Folklore testimony. Informant, Elinor Weir
of Cambridge. Testimony given 1970. Photos
courtesy of Talbot County Free Library.
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Crisfield Tales
Haunted Eastern Shore
Ghostly Tales from East of the
Chesapeake
by Mindie Burgoyne
ISBN: 1596297204
PRICE: $17.99
160 Pages
Published by History Press
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Haunted Eastern Shore
Book Description:
They walk beside the
murky waters of the Chesapeake Bay,
linger among the fetid swamps and
roam the manor halls. These are the
tormented souls who refuse to leave
the sites of their demise. From
pitiless smugglers to reluctant
brides, the ghostly figures of the
Eastern Shore are at once terrifying
and tragic. Mindie Burgoyne takes
readers on a spine-tingling journey
as she recounts the grisly events at
the Cosden Murder Farm and the
infamous legend of Patty Cannon.
Tread the foggy lanes of Kent Manor
Inn and linger among Revolutionary
War dead to discover the
otherworldly occupants of Maryland's
most haunted shore.
Haunted sites
mentioned in the book include:
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Cecil County -
Holly Hall, Old Bohemia,
Mitchell House
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Kent County -
Cosden Murder Farm, White House
Farm, St. Paul's Cemetery &
Bridge, Kitty Knight House
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Queen Anne's
County - Bloomingdale, Kent
Manor Inn
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Caroline County
- The Tale of Wish Shepherd, The
Murder Sallie Dean, Athol - a
Child's Ghost in Henderson,
Willson's Chance
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Talbot County -
The Lost City of Dover,
Whitemarsh Cemetery, The
Wilderness, Tunis Mills Hanging
Tree
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Dorchester
County - Shoal Creek Manor,
Patty Cannon's Trail of Tears,
Suicide Bridge, Green Briar
Swamp & Big Lizz, Tales From
Down Below
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Wicomico County
- The Ghost Light Road
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Worcester County
- Cellar House, the Snow Hill
Inn
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Somerset County
- Ananias Crockett's House,
Holland's Island, Vance Miles
House.
Tales include
narratives given to Salisbury
University Folklore students thirty
years ago, describing hauntings,
ghosts and legends of the Eastern
Shore.
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