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Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
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Street Looking East from 24th, Galveston, Texas" |
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Bettie Brown and Haunting of Ashton Villa by Clay Coppedge
The Ashton Villa mansion in Galveston has been called “the most
haunted place in America” more than once. As columnist L.M. Boyd
used to say, “Interesting, if true.”
The house was built by James Brown – the hardest working man in
the hardware business – in 1859. It’s generally recognized as the
first brick residence in the state and the only antebellum mansion
on Broadway. The house is a little contrary to ordinary but the
woman most commonly associated with Ashton Villa was even more so...
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| "Broadway
Boulevard Looking West from Tremont Street, Galveston, Texas" |
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