Don't be afraid.

Lock the doors.

Turn out the lights and climb into bed.

It's time for hillbilly.

Dead time stories. Stories It's not unusual to hear of a haunted plantation in the southern part of the United States.

After all, most of these plantations ran off of slave labor, and it's no secret that most of these slaves were treated

cruelly and in many cases ripped away from their families. This led to overall miserable lives.

You had in the tragedies of the Civil War, not to mention the many deaths due to illness such as

yellow fever, and you have the perfect breeding ground for hauntings. When you hear the term haunted

plantation,

the Myrtle's plantation is probably the first to come to mind.

And for good reason, it is the most well-known haunted plantation.

You have probably never heard of the Rotherwood plantation in Tennessee.

Until today.

Ah! Until today.... I'm Oh Oh Her name was Rowena, and it is said that in her day she was the fairest maiden in all of Holston Valley.

There's little doubt that she was her father's greatest joy and his ultimate sorrow.

Rowena's father, the Reverend Frederick A. Ross, was a man who always liked to think of himself as a Virginia gentleman.

Reverend Ross was quite an enterprising young man. As a matter of fact, it was he who laid out the Tennessee town of Rossville, later called Kingsport, and he founded another community named

Christianville. In addition to founding towns, buildings, bridges, and ministering to his flock,

the Reverend also ran Ratherutherwood Plantation.

While his duties often kept him quite busy, the Reverend still found time to read.

Frederick Ross was particularly fond of the writings of Sir Walter Scott, so much so, in fact, that he named Rotherwood after a locale in Scott's epic romance, Ivanhoe.

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