Haunted Travel: The Sweetin Mansion and Its Lost Treasure .. Exploring abandoned places where ghosts from the past still play out events that led to the places downfall has such a rich history, I feel honored to be able to find, capture and explore such places before time eliminates their memory. One such place I found was deep in the Illinois country side. Nearly engulfed by hundred years worth of encroaching vines, trees and brush from the nearby woods, the ruins of the once stately Sweetin Mansion feels as if its hiding a dark secret from the world. Built in 1848 by English immigrant Azariah Sweetin, the house is a shadow of its former glory that sits in a remote part of the countryside in western Illinois. The crumbed limestone walls and broken timbers slowly destroyed by time and weather only hint at its mysterious past. Also known as Hartwell Ranch House and the old stone house, the manor was constructed with three floors, walnut woodwork, a grand ballroom, three foot thick walls, and the unusual feature of a natural stream running through the basement for a water supply and to cool the house during Illinois notorious humid weather. For some strange reason, the Sweetin family didnt move into the house until 14 years after construction began. huffingtonpost/corey-schjoth/haunted-travel-the-sweeti_b_4976843.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:11:05 +0000
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