The Ambler House was built circa 1750 on Jamestown Island for the Ambler family. It was burnt during both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and was restored after both. When it burnt again in 1895, it wasn't rebuilt. According to the sign next to the ruins, it was once described as looking similar to the Wythe House that still stands in Colonial Williamsburg.
Poking around the internet, there seems to be an angry ghost named Lydia Ambler that haunts the remains of her former home. Period. On various sites all they give is that one sentence. It's sometimes frustrating when a place is said to be haunted and you get nothing about the history behind it, the causes, the type of phenomena witnesses, etc.
So I googled Lydia Ambler and found a Google Book Preview of The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown by Jackie Eileen Behrend. Apparently Lydia married a man named Alexander Maupin who left to fight in the Revolution soon after. As the years went on, Lydia came to believe that Alexander deserted her and in a fit of sorrow and rage, took her own life. She has been seen walking about the island near her former home.
Like the Curse Tree, this is another mystery of Jamestown that I would like to investigate further. For more information on the Ambler family, the NPS has an article about them.
Anyway, here are some more photos I took of the ruins:
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Very cool.
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