WARE-LYNDON HOUSE
Historic House — Athens, Georgia
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/ware-lyndon-house-athens-georgia/

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

A historic house in Athens, Georgia, Ware-Lyndon House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house associated with published local folklore. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. 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 Ware-Lyndon House is the last of Lickskillet — the 1850 Greek Revival-Italianate Dr. Edward Ware built in Athens's fashionable neighborhood when the property ran to the Oconee, the house Dr. Edward Lyndon bought in 1880 when the railroads had already cut the tract. Over a hundred people were enslaved on the grounds before emancipation — the house museum that now tells the fuller story began the research to name them in 2019.
The city's first acquisition after City Hall, the arts center it became in the seventies, the contemporary wing the voters funded — the last house of a neighborhood is the community's arts home now. The decorative arts are in the rooms the doctors kept; the enslaved are in the interpretation the research added — the house that was a plantation's town seat telling both halves.
The file keeps Ware-Lyndon: the Lickskillet survival, the two doctors, the hundred enslaved, and the house museum that began to tell the whole story.
Ware-Lyndon is the archive's Athens file — the last Lickskillet house and the history it's still learning to tell.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Ware-Lyndon is the archive's Athens file — the 1850 house, the enslaved hundred, and the honest interpretation.
A survivor's house keeps its whole story — the file's suggestion being that Ware-Lyndon's hold is the completeness: the last of a fashionable neighborhood, and the museum that finally counted the enslaved among its inhabitants.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Visit Athens preserves competing Dr. Lyndon and Lonnie Spalding apparition identities. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'Haunted Athens' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Haunted Athens (https://www.visitathensga.com/blog/post/haunted-athens-a-guide-to-athens-spookiest-destinations/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Athens — Visit Athens
  https://www.visitathensga.com/blog/post/haunted-athens-a-guide-to-athens-spookiest-destinations/

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