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Blennerhassett Island
Blennerhassett Island, Wood County, West Virginia
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An Irish aristocrat built a Palladian mansion on an island in the Ohio and then let Aaron Burr use it to organise whatever it was Burr was organising, an expedition west that the government called treason and a jury declined to convict. The militia sacked the place, the family lost everything, and the house burned in 1811. The state rebuilt it on the original foundations and you reach it by sternwheeler.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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