Glebe House

The Glebe House museum describes its 275-year-old house as having a history of hauntings, and investigators who visited reported spirits throughout the three-story house. Visitors describe an aggressive presence in the attic, thought by some to be one of the men who attacked Rev. John Rutgers Marshall, and a separate, generally gentler presence believed to be a household servant. The museum stages haunted-museum and cemetery-tour events at Halloween. Built around 1740 as a farmhouse, the Glebe House was later the home of Rev. Marshall, rector of St. Paul's Church, and holds a specific place in American religious history: it's where the first bishop of the newly independent Episcopal Church in the United States was elected in 1783. Marshall, a Loyalist during the war, was reportedly attacked in his own home for his sermons and politics.