This whole "moving to Ohio" thing is interesting twist on local awareness. I have researched Ohio, Mount Vernon, Gambier, and Knox County quite a bit. The web provides so much information that moving provides a person with a convenient hobby of researching the destination to death. I read mountvernonnews.com daily but haven't looked at the East Valley Tribune or AZ Central more than half a dozen times since the new year.
Anyway, on to the point of this particular post. I was flying around the globe with the new Google Earth 4.3 today and came across an interesting historical fact about Knox County. There is an old Poorhouse just west of town. In the late 19th century, 1877, the Knox County Infirmary or Poorhouse was constructed. It served this purpose until 1953 when structural problems forced it to close due to structural problems.
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The building was soon pruchased and repaired by the Mount Vernon Bible College, and operated until 1987. There has been talk of it being HAUNTED!!!!! In fact there was a tragic event involving an elevator while it served as the Bible College. There are several website that have photos and some history, most of which I have reviewed here.
- Knox County Infirmary
- Rejected Memories
- Ohio's Most Haunted: The Knox County Poorhouse
- Knox Co. Poorhouse on Flickr
- The House of Nightmares
Once I have relocated to Knox County I may try and get some photos of my own.
5 comments:
That poorhouse is rad. Too bad we don't have anything like that in AZ. Well, maybe we do, but we just haven't googled for it. Speaking of which; you might become the first person busted for Internet-stalking an entire county... :-D
Oh, along a similar vein, the Forgotten Ohio site has a list of all the haunted buildings at Kenyon ...
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Kenyon/kenyon.html
BOO!
Austin
I attended Bible college in this building durring the last two years it was occupied. My Aunt graduated there in the early 60's.
I have very fond memories of my time there. It certainly was not haunted when we occupied it. Of that you can be certain.
I understand that it makes for a good story, but the elevator accident did not happen during the time the Bible college was in residence. I did some checking to verify that this was true, the elevator had already been removed and the shaft closed off when the college moved in. It may have happened proir, but no Bible college students were ever killed. I spoke to those who were acutually there when the school opened. You can verify this for yourself.
Oh, thanks for the info Laurie. I am from Arizona so I think that any building over 30 years old must automatically be haunted.
Its awfully hard to concoct a ghost story about a 9 year old Chili's in the parking lot of a mega mall.
Austin
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