Hartford Castle, Hartford, Illinois
Location Type
Other
Activity Level
(4/5)
Coordinates
38.833382, -90.095940
Description
Hartford Castle was a speakeasy during the Prohibition, but was originally a home called Lakeview, built by French immigrant Benjamin Biszant in 1897. The castlelike home was the scene of a tragedy when Biszant's English wife passed away in the early 1900s. It is her ghost that was suspected to...