Washington C.H.The Archives
Some of Fayette County's genealogical records are stored at the official archives in Washington Courthouse. A
ghost knocks boxes off the shelves on occasion and fills the air with fragrant pipe smoke. He is supposed to be the
ghost of a National Guard soldier who was left in Ohio when the rest of his regiment left to fight in World War One.
Apparently his health was too poor to allow them to bring him along to fight in the harsh winter weather. Despondent
over being left all alone, he took his own life in the armory building where the Guard stayed. Today that building
houses offices for the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the records archive.

Washington C.H. Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill in Fayette County is frequented by a headless horseman, the ghost of a man named Stephen Decker.
Decker staked a claim in Fayette County and went off to camp for the night, only to be robbed and murdered and
have his head cut off. His murderers found his body missing when they tried to pretend to "discover" his corpse.

Today Decker rides the area around Cherry Hill Road, a headless figure on horseback, seeking revenge. Some
have reported seeing a body in the road, only to find that cars and even hands pass right through it.

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