| Beaver Creek /Sprucevale Campout Aug 2004 |
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| There is a tragic haunting that is said to take place in this area. Esther Hale was a poor soul and a Quaker minister. She met a man during the late 1850s and was to be married on August 12, 1862. She waited in her wedding dress and her husband-to-be never arrived, he had been killed in the Civil War. To this day the name of her fiancee remains a mystery. Esther became very despondent. She started inviting men in off the locks and serving them tea laced with arsenic. She hung herself in the mill on September 29th on the top floor shortly after her son had drowned.
When Esther is around, the temperature is said to drop about 20 degrees. Sometimes your car stalls in front of the mill and you hear the wind but no trees are moving. At night she wears a dark cloak and beckons you into the mill, in the early morning hours she can be seen on the bridge in her wedding dress. It is said that she appears as a hideous apparition and if she touches you, you will die and she will become young and beautiful again. She can be seen around the mill, the bridge and throughout the village that was once Sprucevale. |
| Hambleton Mill
The mill was built in 1813 by Hambleton brothers, James, Charles, Issac, and Benjamin. In 1835 the construction of the Sandy Beaver Canal had begun. Small villages starting popping up and one of them was Sprucevale. With the opening of the canal it became a very busy town. The area has changed, the homes are gone and the mill that last operated in the 1870s has fell to ruin. The pottery, the blacksmith shop, the woolen mills and the sawmills are gone. The only sounds remaining are the birds and the creatures of the night. As the years pass, the local residents report to law enforcement and newspaper society of the mysterious and ghostly figure seen by the mill. In the 1850s the state of Ohio purchased the property along Beaver Creek. The area is now known as Beaver Creek State Park. In 1974 the Hamblelton mill was reconstructed, it's beautiful stone structure sitting along the creek in a quiet remote area. n. In 1835 the constructio |
| This is the bridge that Esther is seen on. |
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| Spiritseekers of Ohio watching for Esther |
| submitted by Jeri |
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| Not much is known about this building. I was told it was struck twice by lightening. I was also told that Esther Hale's son drowned in the lock behind this building. |
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| I got this one evening with my digital which I use along with my 35MM. I got a lot of dust orbs but the mist is interesting. |
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