STURDIVANT HALL Historic Mansion — Selma, Alabama Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public · est. 1856 Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/sturdivant-hall-selma-alabama/ 1856 Greek Revival mansion tied to a banker’s disappearance and a servant’s grave. A historic mansion in Selma, Alabama, built in 1856, Sturdivant Hall is filed here for what the record attaches to it. 1856 Greek Revival mansion tied to a banker’s disappearance and a servant’s grave. The name the accounts keep returning to is John McGee. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. Sturdivant Hall was built in 1856 — banker John McGee's Greek Revival mansion in Selma, the antebellum palace that outlasted the fortune that paid for it: McGee's finances collapsed, and he fled the city, never heard from again. The file's documented spine is the disappearance: a banker who built the town's grandest house and then vanished — a man whose mansion remained after his money and his trace were gone. MCGEE IN HIS ROOMS The lore reports McGee's presence in his former rooms and a servant girl's figure near the garden — the file's ghosts being the vanished banker and an unnamed enslaved or serving woman: the mansion keeping the man who fled it and the girl the record forgot. McGee's presence is the file's signature — a banker who disappeared reportedly still at the house he left, the mansion's rooms holding the man who never came back to them. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Sturdivant Hall is the archive's vanished-banker file — an 1856 mansion whose owner fled and was never found, keeping McGee reportedly in his rooms and a servant girl in the garden. The documented collapse is the record; the lingering are the lore. A mansion whose builder vanished keeps him — the file's suggestion being that McGee came home after all, the garden's girl still working the grounds he abandoned. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] named ghost legend: Museum lore reports McGee’s presence in his former rooms and a servant girl’s figure near the garden. John McGee is the name the reports keep returning to. Sturdivant Hall's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. source: Sturdivant Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdivant_Hall) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · [1856] Built in 1856 for banker John McGee, who later fled after financial collapse and was never heard from again. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Sturdivant Hall' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 1 cited · Sturdivant Hall — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdivant_Hall — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/