The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, located inside the Sutherlin Mansion (originally built for William T. Sutherlin in 1859), has been called the “Last Capitol of the Confederacy.” It was here that Jefferson Davis spent long hours staring out the parlor window after he heard the news of the Confederacy’s surrender. Witnesses say ghostly activity occasionally is noted here, such as footsteps, a woman who appears in mirrors, phantom cigar smoke and a girl’s moan.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 975 Main Street
Danville, Virginia 24541
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 36.58102665937476, -79.40017282962799
- Nearest Towns:
- Danville, VA (0.4 mi.)
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I have never seen anything or heard anything out of the ordinary, but you can smell heavy cigar smoke when no one was around. There was no one there when we went to visit this place only a handful of people and none of them were smoking. Go check it out for yourself, kinda creepy.
I saw an orb fly by in the room beside the parlor, felt sick in a different room, heard a growl in the art room