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By Steven White 27 Aug 2022
The name of the abandoned Winderbourne Mansion is inspired the inventor of the bobbin winder, whose rich relation built the home as a summer retreat for their family.
A dreary, crumbling mansion worthy of appearing in any haunted house film was originally painted a bright pink complemented by a rose trimming.
Winderbourne Mansion in a rural part of Maryland in the US was built in 1884 by a very wealthy couple who occupied it with their three children.
Enoch Totten was a lawyer in Washington as well as a veteran from the Civil War 20 years previously who had been shot four times during it. His wife Mary had acquired a lot of money through her father, senator Timothy Howe, who happened to be heir and cousin of Elias Howe - inventor of the modern sewing machine.
The now-abandoned property had a glowing start with all-year-round gardeners employed, due to the couple's passion for the outdoors, and imported exotic plants dotted around the 9.3-acre land. However, life began to darken when the Totten's three children all contracted typhoid fever, a prevalent disease in the 19th century often caused by drinking contaminated water.
One of them died from the illness, with many locals believing that the child's spirit still haunts the Victorian-era house. More tragedy struck the family after one of the daughters Edith Totten grew up and had a child herself. She became a doctor and adopted a child but the little girl died after sliding down and falling off the the mansion's bannister, which only fuelled the rumour that the mansion was haunted by children.
Edith is said to have " dropped dead " aged 48 while delivering a lecture at a university in nearby Baltimore. Winderbourne Mansion changed ownership in 1929 to Edward K. and Beulah S. Pickrell
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