Whitehaven

Kentucky · United States · Manor

A restored mansion at Paducah that now serves as a public rest area. The woman on the second floor balcony is thought to be the owner's wife.

Whitehaven at Paducah, Kentucky is a restored antebellum mansion that now serves an unusual second life: it is a highway rest area, open to the public and staffed with guides.

A female figure has occasionally been seen on the balcony off the second floor bedroom, and she is understood to be the wife of the man who owned the house.

Local account holds that she bled to death during an appendectomy, which in the period before proper surgical technique was a very ordinary way to die.

What everybody who describes that bedroom says next is worth recording, because it runs against the grain of this archive. The feeling in the room is pleasant. The reason given is how much she loved it, and how much her husband had done to make it hers.

The house is free to visit and is signposted from the interstate.

FAQ

Where is Whitehaven located?

Whitehaven is in Kentucky, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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