ANCHUCA HISTORIC MANSION AND INN
Historic Inn — 1010 First East Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/anchuca-historic-mansion-and-inn-vicksburg-mississippi/

Historic inn in Vicksburg; research record.

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.

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.

THE REPORTED GHOST
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] haunting: 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.
  source: Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi (https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi — Visit Vicksburg
  https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/

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