Errolton Traditional Cache
isht kinta: If you can fix or verify this cache it can be easily unarchived. For now I am going to archive it. Feel free to contact me through my profile linked below if you fix it.
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Errolton Built around 153 years ago by a rich merchant, William B.
Weaver, this top drawer 1848 Italianate mansion has "six soaring
fluted columns, and delicate arches across the roof of the front
verandah." The inside is just as glorious. There are twin parlors
that showcase dazzling chandeliers that reflect in room mirrors.
The ceiling is decorated with lovely plaster medallions of acanthus
leaves. Servant's houses were also built on the property. When
finished, it was considered one of the finest mansions in town.
Weaver's daughter, Nellie Weaver, was an outgoing, talented woman
who lived during the time period just before the Civil War to the
1930's. She fell in love with a fireman, Charles Tucker, and
married him in 1878. She was so blissfully happy, that she carved
her name, Nellie, on the window glass of the south parlor. When a
few years had gone by, after their daughter was born, Charles left
them and disappeared. To support herself and her daughter, she
started a small private school. Because of a lack of money, this
once grand mansion slowly slipped into disrepair. Nellie lived
there happily until she was eighty, when she died do to burns she
received when her dress caught fire from sparks coming from the
fireplace in the rear parlor. The mansion was rescued from its
state of disrepair when the Batemans bought the home, in 1950.
Manifestation: Fortunately, renovation of this once beautiful home
started in the early '50's by Mrs. Bateman and was completed by the
mid - fifties. Sometime during the restoration period, a workman
leaned a ladder up against the window that Nellie has etched her
name in, and accidentally broke it. The window was replaced with
another pane of glass. A) Before the window had been broken, Mrs.
Bateman herself had seen the original etching of Nellie's name in
the old, original window pane, at the start of the home's
restoration process. Some years later, after the mansion had been
returned to its former glory, Mrs. Bateman started to add her own
touches inside. She put a lovely sofa under a window in the south
parlor. One day, when she was about to close curtains, because of
bright sun was shining on the sofa, she suddenly noticed something
that hadn't been there the other day. In the replaced window pane,
she saw the name, "Nellie" once again scratched in the same place,
in the same handwriting that the original scratching had been in.
It had been done from the inside. Many think that the spirit of
Nellie is letting the Batemans know how happy she is that they
restored her beloved home. Still Haunted? Is Nellie still there? It
is assumed that she is, because she loved her house, and never
wanted to leave it. No need to go into the fenced in property to
recover this cache.
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