Talk:Camp Chase

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(Gunn pa1950 21:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I used to live on part of what was the original parade ground of Camp Chase. Before the area where the current Hilltop Branch of the Columbus Public Library was built, that land was still untouched from the time of the war. Aerial photos of the area were overlaid with a number of period maps and drawings of the camp and a small ditch/creek which ran through the area was used to help with the registrations. Using this information, it was determined that the entrance to the main camp was, indeed, at the location of the large stone marker in front of the Masonic Lodge on West Broad Street. The entrance to the first section of the prison portion of the camp was approximately where the pitcher's mound sits at West High School. The northern boundary was at W. Broad St, the eastern boundary at Hague Ave, the western boundary was at S. Westgate Ave., and the southern boundary was a diagonal from south of Palmetto, around Fremont, to Wicklow. The pest house sat on the land where the new library was built. The cemetery sat outside and behind (south) of the camp.

The land used for the camp was leased from the landowner at the time by the U.S. government according to property abstracts from the area. The size of the camp encompassed 140 acres. —Duchesswiki (talk • contribs) 03:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a claim that the cemetery is haunted. Thats the main reason I know of Camp Chase and its why I visited it. Is there any legitimate way this can be incorporated into the article without looking un-encyclopedic? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.244.152.223 (talk) 18:50, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The haunted claim for Camp Chase comes from a couple different stories which have become mixed together along with a bit of advertisement for an event there about 1989. The Lady in Grey was the name given to the ghost which has been seen near Nationwide Children's Hospital on the site of the original city cemetery there. Confederate soldiers who were buried at the city cemetery before Camp Chase Cemetery was opened were moved to their current location on Sullivant Avenue. There is nothing left of the original city cemetery. Workers at the hospital claimed to often see the image of a woman, so intently wandering as if looking for something, that they could walk right up upon her before she would disappear.

The second story was of the Veiled Lady of Camp Chase. An article appeared in The Columbus Dispatch Dec. 24, 1961 by Bob Waldron titled "The Veiled Lady of Camp Chase." along with a contemporary photograph of the woman sitting on her porch on the occasion of her birthday one year. She was a Southerner, married to a Northerner, who after the war would don a veil before visiting the cemetery in order to preserve her anonymity. Of course, everyone knew her identity.

In the late 1980's and for about three years running, the local historical society hosted a reenactment on the church baseball fields which abut the back wall of the cemetery. I attended all of these events and helped in the planning of all but the first one. As reenactors/living historians are wont to do, we were teasing one of the participants about ghosts since we knew she was afraid of them. An organizer overheard this conversation and casually mentioned ghosts to the local tv news reporter on one of the morning show interviews at the event site. And a legend was born. The story was repeated that year at Halloween when the tv station did a piece on haunted Ohio and was eventually published in a book.Duchesswiki (talk) 11:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I will be adding sections of the recent vandalism and on the conditions of prison life as well as adding sources to the history and lead paragraphs to make it more validated.Jamesbob2000 (talk) 23:11, 28 October 2018 (UTC) I also added many internal links and new citations to make the article more verified. Jamesbob2000 (talk) 17:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]