{"id":2606,"slug":"point-of-honor-lynchburg-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Point of Honor is the mystery — the 'Honor' that's the name's unknown, the 'no duel' that's the record's blank. The 'octagonal' is the shaped — the 'bays' that's the front's push, the 'Federal' that's the style's mark. The 'book built' is the sourced — the 'Biddle's patterns' that's the design's root, the 'carpenter's assistant' that's the guide's name.","The 'died months' is the paired — the 'William Eliza' that's the '30 loss, the 'inherited' that's the Daniel's gain. The 'stucco stripped' is the peeled — the '1841' that's the cover's date, the 'restored back' that's the '70s' choice. Point of Honor is the used — the 'recreation' that's the '28 role, the 'museum' that's the '77's open.","The file keeps Point of Honor: the mystery name, the octagonal bays, the book design, and the paired deaths.","Point of Honor is the archive's Virginia file — the house named for something no one recorded."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Point of Honor is the archive's Virginia file — the Federal house whose name has no origin.","A point keeps its mystery — the file's suggestion being that Honor's hold is the unknown: the 'name unexplained' that's the record's gap, the 'book copied' that's the design's source, and the 'stucco stripped' that's the truth's return."]}],"name":"Point of Honor","aliases":[],"type":"MANSION","type_label":"Mansion","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1815 Federal mansion above the James—Lynchburg’s finest view.","full_desc":"Point of Honor is a mansion in Lynchburg, Virginia. The 1815 Federal mansion above the James—Lynchburg’s finest view. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Lynchburg","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.399016,"lon":-79.195458,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"VA battlefields batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2126,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. Point of Honor wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like 'Point of Honor'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Point of Honor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Honor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1815 for Dr. George Cabell. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Point of Honor' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1815","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Point of Honor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Honor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the mansion. Point of Honor in Lynchburg, Virginia is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed. It remains the site's standing claim.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Point of Honor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Honor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic mansion; check the official site for tour times.","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":"Point of Honor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Honor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}