Lincoln Home
A historic house in Columbus, Mississippi, Lincoln Home is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house in Columbus; research record. It sits in the archive 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.
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Is Lincoln Home haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Columbus, Mississippi, keeps one of the better-documented stocks of antebellum houses in the state — a city that began as 'Possum Town' for tavern-keeper Spirus Roach before respectable settlers renamed it in 1821, and that the WPA guide praised for the 'mellowed beauty' of its Georgian porticos. The Lincoln Home at 714 Third Avenue South belongs to that stock: built in 1833, it was home to one of the city's first mayors, and after careful restoration it spent years operating as a bed and breakfast.
The same preservation economy that saved the house put it on the ghost-tour circuit. Columbus was described by collector Lewis Powell IV as perhaps the best-documented haunted city in Mississippi, with Waverly, Errolton, and Temple Heights in the same listings; the Lincoln Home earns its place on the strength of two recurring reports.
What is reported
A woman in white has been reported at the house by neighbors and overnight guests — the most conventional figure in American haunting lore, and the one most attached to the property. The stranger account belongs to the owners, who told of a dark cloud, black and grey, drifting through the parlor.
The file files both the same way: as reports written down and retold, not events verified. What is documented is the house itself — an 1833 structure, a mayor's residence, a restored inn — and a city that learned early that its old rooms were an asset. Whatever the parlor holds, the reports keep it filed under Columbus, where the dossiers are thick and the distinctions matter.
The record of claims
The guide recounts a white-dressed woman and drifting dark cloud. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
The guide recounts a white-dressed woman and drifting dark cloud. Lincoln Home wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.
Sources on file
- 01The haunting of Columbus, MississippiSouthern Spirit Guide · blog · A4
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