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The Ghostly Legends Of Vinegar Hill, Lynn E. Niedermeier

Lynn E. Niedermeier

Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known as "Vinegar Hill," a rocky, overgrown, unsavory and haunted place. In 1912, an elderly African-American resident of the neighboring community of Jonesville recounted its ghostly history to a local newspaper reporter.