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  2. Crenshaw House (Gallatin County, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    The Crenshaw House (also known as the Crenshaw Mansion, Hickory Hill or, most commonly, The Old Slave House) is an historic former residence and alleged haunted house located in Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois. The house was constructed in the 1830s. [2] It was the main residence of John Crenshaw, his wife, and their five children.

  3. Equality, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Saline River of southeastern Illinois near the U.S. Salines, in Equality, Illinois, where leased out Kentucky slaves boiled down salt brine water from the river into usable salt for sale. 1970s photograph of the Old Slave House. John Crenshaw, a notorious illegal kidnapper slave trader, holding a crutch, for support because of a missing leg ...

  4. John Crenshaw - Wikipedia

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    Crenshaw was twice prosecuted for kidnapping, but never convicted. Due to Crenshaw's keeping slaves and kidnapping free blacks, who were then pressed into slavery, his house became popularly known as The Old Slave House and is alleged to be haunted. Stories of strange noises upstairs, coming from victims, date to 1851.

  5. Crenshaw House - Wikipedia

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    Crenshaw House may refer to: Crenshaw-Burleigh House , Dermott, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Chicot County Crenshaw House (Gallatin County, Illinois) , also known as the Old Slave House , listed on the NRHP in Gallatin County

  6. Junction, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Hickory Hill mansion, almost five miles west of Junction, is the 19th-century home of illegal slave trader and slave breeder John Hart Crenshaw.It was infamously known as the "Old Slave House," as it was used as a criminal front for the kidnapping of free blacks who were illegally sold into the Southern slave trade on the Reverse Underground Railroad, as well as a farm for slave breeding.

  7. List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States

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    Crenshaw House in Equality. The house was constructed in the 1830s as a station on the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1978, a reporter from Harrisburg named David Rodgers spent the night in the attic as a Halloween stunt for a local television station. The reporter managed to beat out nearly 150 previous challengers and became the first ...

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Gallatin ...

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    Crenshaw House: Crenshaw House: May 29, 1985 : Off Illinois Route 1 Equality: 3: Duffy site: Duffy site: August 26, 1977 ... John Marshall House Site. January 21, 1975

  9. Crenshaw, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Crenshaw, or the Crenshaw District, is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, California. [2] [3] In the post–World War II era, a Japanese American community was established in Crenshaw. African Americans started migrating to the district in the mid 1960s, and by the early 1970s were the majority. [4]