{"id":2592,"slug":"stonewall-jackson-house-lexington-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The house is the only-owned — the 'professor' that's the buyer's job, the 'VMI' that's the employer's name. The 'gardened' is the quiet — the 'kitchen garden' that's the general's hobby, the 'lemons' that's the habit's odd. The 'church taught' is the led — the 'Sunday school' that's the enslaved class's pupils, the 'controversial' that's the lesson's edge.","The 'widow sold' is the passed — the 'Anna' that's the survivor's name, the 'hospital' that's the house's second life. The 'restored twice' is the peeled — the '1979' that's the facade's return, the 'original shift' that's the rebuild's care. The house is the kept — the 'museum' that's the '54's role, the 'possessions' that's the rooms' fill.","The file keeps the house: the only home, the gardened life, the taught class, and the restored facade.","Stonewall Jackson House is the archive's Virginia file — the professor's home before the general's legend."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Stonewall Jackson House is the archive's Virginia file — the civilian decade inside the soldier's story.","A house keeps its garden — the file's suggestion being that the home's hold is the quiet: the 'professor' that's the owner's job, the 'enslaved school' that's the complicated edge, and the 'restored' that's the museum's work."]}],"name":"Stonewall Jackson House","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_BUILDING","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The only house Jackson ever owned—where he lived as a VMI professor.","full_desc":"Stonewall Jackson House is a house in Lexington, Virginia. The only house Jackson ever owned—where he lived as a VMI professor. The archive files it under the Civil War and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Lexington","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.782332,"lon":-79.44432,"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":2105,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the study. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Stonewall Jackson House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Jackson lived here 1858-1861 as a VMI professor. Stonewall Jackson House's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Stonewall Jackson House'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1858","date_end":"1861","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Stonewall Jackson House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access 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":"Stonewall Jackson House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}