{"id":1365,"slug":"anchuca-historic-mansion-and-inn-vicksburg-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The house that tourism calls haunted was built by a politician, enlarged by a merchant, and shelled by a war. J.W. Mauldin put up a two-story Federal cottage around 1830 in Vicksburg's earliest district; merchant Victor Wilson bought it in 1840 and gave it the Greek Revival portico in 1847. The Wilsons' family survived the forty-seven-day Siege of Vicksburg inside the city, then lost their only son and an infant daughter in the weeks after the July 1863 surrender. The house, intact, served as a hospital. Jane Wilson, ruined, sold it after her husband's death in 1865.","Joseph Emory Davis — Jefferson Davis's brother — lived here from 1868 until his death in 1870, and in 1869 the former Confederate president addressed a Vicksburg crowd from the front balcony. The name Anchuca is said to be Choctaw for 'happy home.' The house is individually listed on the National Register and operates as a ten-room inn."]},{"heading":"The reported ghost","paragraphs":["Visit Vicksburg's haunted-lodging account names the resident spirit 'Archie' Archer — a daughter of Richard Archer, said to have appeared since 1966 in a long brown dress by the parlor or dining-room fireplace, with presences felt in the surviving slave quarters and phantom traces of perfume and tobacco. The dossier's research notes flag the Archer-family identity as unverified, and the house's documented ownership — Mauldin, Wilson, Davis — does not produce an Archer in the standard record.","The file keeps both honestly: an antebellum mansion whose documented history needs no embellishment, and a named apparition whose biography has never caught up with her dress."]}],"name":"Anchuca Historic Mansion and Inn","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_INN","type_label":"Historic Inn","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic inn in Vicksburg; research record.","full_desc":"A historic inn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Anchuca Historic Mansion and Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic inn in Vicksburg; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"1010 First East Street","city":"Vicksburg","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.322002,"lon":-90.881559,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.anchuca.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Archer-family identity in the tourism account needs independent verification; no historical identity assumed.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":608,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Visit Vicksburg recounts an apparition associated with Richard Archer’s daughter. Anchuca Historic Mansion and Inn's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi' carries the account. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit Vicksburg recounts an apparition associated with Richard Archer’s daughter. The reports at Anchuca Historic Mansion and Inn are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}