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Balleston Haunted Manor & Haunted Trail

Address:

Rocky Point Golf Course
Essex, MD
United States

Tickets:

Adults are $5, Kids are $2.50

Phone:

410-887-0218

Website:

http://www.geocities.com/ballestone/

About:

Built in the early 18th century the Ballestone Manor House creates a perfect setting for our haunted tours. Our tours have more of a theatrical feel to the performance than your standard pop out monstor scares. We have a scripted storyline and actors that rehearse for months to bring you a performance unlike any other. The stories are set back in time to fit the era in which the house was inhabited. During each tour groups will be taken from room to room in the house to witness a story of horror and macabre. Each tour runs approximately 30 minutes throughout the house. We also have a walk through haunted trail held on the grounds of the manor for a bonus scare. Groups are taken for a walk in the dark through the back fields of Ballestone Manor for a nice little stroll guaranteed to chill your bones. Beware what lurks behind the trees and brush

History:

1733- Property divided into three parts when John Long sold 140 acres each to Thomas Sheridine, Stephen Body (father-in-law of Dixon Stansbury, the son of Daniel who was twin to Thomas Stansbury.) 1766-69 - Dates on tombstones of Jane and Thomas Stansbury, parents of Dixon. Dixon Stansbury and his wife Penelope Body obtained a warrant on 37 acres bordering Ballestone and called it "Ballestones Support". In the 1783 Federal Assessment, Dixon was also accountable for 117 acres of "Baliston". 1766- Elizabeth Stansbury Slade, daughter of Dixon, inherited "Ballestone Support". 1805- William Stansbury and his sister, Mary Ann, decendants of Joseph Ward and Richardson Stasbury, obtained Ballestone.1819- During these years, Andrew Leakin and subsquestly, his son , Shepard C. Leakin (Mayor of Baltimore City) obtained Ballestone. 1819-44 1844- Shepard C. Leakin lost the property at the public auction. Purchasers were Robert Purviance, Jr. and John S. Gittings. 1855- Edward Miller purchased Balletone. 1969-Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks purchased the property from the heirs of Edward Miller.