The Rice Museum (Old Market & Kaminski Building)
Georgetown's Rice Museum occupies two 1842 landmarks downtown: the clock-towered Old Market and the adjacent Kaminski Hardware Building, which later held a hardware store and now houses the Prevost art gallery. The most-repeated haunting centers on that gallery, where staff and visitors entering during quiet hours report disembodied footsteps crossing the floor, including one distinctive set that lands unevenly, as though made by a sailor with a peg leg. Georgetown was a working rice port, and the building's mercantile and waterfront past supplies the lore. A second account ties an antique sideboard in the museum to the lingering presence of an enslaved woman. The stories are collected in Elizabeth Huntsinger's Georgetown ghost books and recur on regional haunted-coast roundups, anchoring the Kaminski Building as one of the historic district's most cited haunted sites.
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