Tuckahoe Plantation
Begun by William Randolph III in 1733 and completed around 1740, Tuckahoe is a National Historic Landmark on the James River just west of Richmond and the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson. Its most famous specter is a phantom bride, often seen running down a path away from the house in a flowing gown; she is widely tied to a Randolph woman, frequently named as a Mary Randolph, said in legend to have been forced to marry against her will and to have died of a broken heart in the home. Visitors also report a 'gray lady' apparition drifting through the rooms, and people inside the empty house have described heavy footsteps echoing through the halls. As one of the best-preserved early-18th-century plantation houses in America, still owned and lived in, Tuckahoe's tragic Randolph-family history gives its long-told ghost legends a documented backbone.
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