It’s the dead of winter, 1919, and you’re invited to join us for a theatrical, historically-based séance in the spooky, candlelit parlor of the Keith House at Graeme Park. The experience will be conducted in the style of an early 20th century séance when “mediums” and “psychics” took advantage of those for whom death was […]
On November 17 or 18, 1749 Sir William Keith, for whom the Keith House at Graeme Park was built, died in London. Death notices ran in the London Magazine (vol. 18, 1749, pg. 529) and the Gentleman’s Magazine (vol. 19, 1749, pg. 524). London Magazine reports his death as occurring on November 17, 1749 and […]
Ask any Horsham resident about Graeme Park and they’ll tell you it’s haunted! Over it’s 300-year-old history, the Keith House at Graeme Park has seen sorrow and tragedy, death and infidelity, and not all of the former residents rest easy. Your Lantern Tour guide will take you through the shadowy rooms and halls and relate […]
Ask any Horsham resident about Graeme Park and they’ll tell you it’s haunted! Over it’s 300-year-old history, the Keith House at Graeme Park has seen sorrow and tragedy, death and infidelity, and not all of the former residents rest easy. Your Lantern Tour guide will take you through the shadowy rooms and halls and relate […]
Poor Mary Mallon, as misunderstood today as she was a hundred years ago. Notoriously known as “Typhoid Mary,” she was a seemingly healthy, determined woman who immigrated from Ireland at a time when just being Irish was enough to arouse suspicion and social rejection. Being female and being poor added to her problems. Through no […]
October 6 marks the anniversary of the marriage of Sir William Keith to Ann Newbury Diggs which occurred in 1704 at The Collegiate Church of St. Katharine by the Tower – a medieval church next to the Tower of London. While the church was demolished in 1825, it was rebuilt from 1826-28 as St. Katharine’s in Regeant’s […]
Written by Margaret Marshall Strawbridge, September 25, 1929 I am basking in the sunshine, gray squirrels are skipping along the fence, a proud hen is cackling from the barn yard, the starlings and blackbirds are whistling to each other from the branches above me and the woods near by. I am living in memory [of] […]
Dr. Thomas Graeme died on the grounds of Graeme Park on September 4, 1772 on the day Elizabeth had decided to tell him of her secret marriage to Henry Hugh Ferugusson. She wrote: I sat on the bench at the window and watched him coming up the avenue. It was a terrible task to prepare. […]
Join us for a theatrical, historically-based séance in the spooky, candlelit parlor of the Keith House at Graeme Park. The experience will be conducted in the style of an early 20th century séance when “mediums” and “psychics” took advantage of those for whom death was a very near experience, perhaps having recently lost loved ones […]
Bring a picnic lunch and join us for a free scoop of ice cream, reading of the Declaration of Independence, and some 4th of July trivia, followed by a free walk-through tour of the Keith House. Kids (and adults) can try their hand at writing with a quill pen just like the signers of the […]