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Haunted Places: Battery Carriage Inn
Most Haunted Places in America
The Battery Carriage Inn is a historic bed and breakfast nestled in the affluent heart of Charleston, South Carolina. Dating back over 150 years, it’s not just the living who enjoy the hospitality and warmth of the lodging. It is said that the Battery Carriage Inn is Charleston’s ‘most haunted inn’.
Take a mental trip back in time, if you will, to 1843. A time of plantation homes and countless acres of crops as far as the eye can see. Samuel N. Stevens, a lending agent who provided farmers with the necessary funds to fill their fields with crops, purchased the property on which the Battery Carriage Inn now sits for a total of $4,500.
The original home was not nearly so elaborately designed as the current Battery Carriage Inn, but nevertheless, at that time, it was an impressive home indeed, situated among the upper class of Charleston. Stevens lived here until 1859 when he sold the Battery to another factor, John F. Blacklock. Shortly after, the Civil War was underway and Blacklock was forced to abandon his home, but he returned and sold the property to Col. Lathers of the Union Army in 1870.
It was Lathers who hired an architect to renovate the Battery home, thus named for its location at 20 South Battery Street. However, the southerners in South Carolina did not appreciate the presence of a Union colonel so, feeling momentously unwelcome, Lathers sold the Battery and took his ‘blood money’ back up north. The property went to Andrew Simonds, the great-great grandfather of the Battery Carriage Inn’s present day owner, Drayton Hastie.
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Haunted Places: Battery Carriage Inn
Most Haunted Places in America
The Battery Carriage Inn is a historic bed and breakfast nestled in the affluent heart of Charleston, South Carolina. Dating back over 150 years, it’s not just the living who enjoy the hospitality and warmth of the lodging. It is said that the Battery Carriage Inn is Charleston’s ‘most haunted inn’.
Take a mental trip back in time, if you will, to 1843. A time of plantation homes and countless acres of crops as far as the eye can see. Samuel N. Stevens, a lending agent who provided farmers with the necessary funds to fill their fields with crops, purchased the property on which the Battery Carriage Inn now sits for a total of $4,500.
The original home was not nearly so elaborately designed as the current Battery Carriage Inn, but nevertheless, at that time, it was an impressive home indeed, situated among the upper class of Charleston. Stevens lived here until 1859 when he sold the Battery to another factor, John F. Blacklock. Shortly after, the Civil War was underway and Blacklock was forced to abandon his home, but he returned and sold the property to Col. Lathers of the Union Army in 1870.
It was Lathers who hired an architect to renovate the Battery home, thus named for its location at 20 South Battery Street. However, the southerners in South Carolina did not appreciate the presence of a Union colonel so, feeling momentously unwelcome, Lathers sold the Battery and took his ‘blood money’ back up north. The property went to Andrew Simonds, the great-great grandfather of the Battery Carriage Inn’s present day owner, Drayton Hastie.
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