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Foley House Inn
Foley House was built in the 1890's. In 1992, the owners wanted to open up
the basement to the garden, so a large arch was installed in the basement wall to
open into the courtyard. When workmen broke through the 18-inch thick brick
wall, they found the petrified remains of a small-framed adult male.
The only people that were here long enough to be petrified were natives. Tye
Native-Amricans who lived on this bit of high ground when Oglethorpe and the colonists
arrived were members of the Creek-Choctaw nation and called themselves Guale (pronounced
Wally). Like the Choctaw, the Guale buried above ground in mounds.
The social norm at that time (early 1990s) would have been to discard the remains, but the builder,
to show a reverence for the grave, bricked up the body in the building.
In the foyer of the Foley House is a framed account from the local newspaper relating
to these facts.
Is Foley House haunted as many have claimed? Spend the night and find out.
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