![]() (All Courtesy Photos from Cultural Resource Management Program)Īccording to the Cumberland County Deed Book 55, in 1859, John Lamont purchased the 525-acre tract of land where the house was located for $800 and described it as “lying and situated in Cumberland County on the Lower Little River…” While studying a 1922 map overlay of Fort Bragg and its land, a mysterious discovery was made – a structure near Lamont’s Bridge was labeled as “Haunted House,” the only instance of this labeling that the Fort Bragg Cultural Resources had ever seen. Prior to this discovery, the only tangible remains of the Lamont legacy were the place names of Lamont Road, now a major road that runs through the military installation and Lamont Springs, a spring on the north side of the nearby Lower Little River.Īrchaeologists creating a site map of features found at the farm site, April 2004. With the discovery of the unusual labeling on this particular map, research began on the John Lamont site - named after the land's previous owner - to understand the cultural context of small rural farmsteads that were purchased by the military in 1918 for the formation of Camp Bragg, as it was known at the time. Part of what is known as the North Carolina Sandhills, the land has been a research topic for archaeologists and cultural resources managers due to its unique geographical features and settlement history. However, the tale of the mysterious discovery and how archeologists pieced together the history of the structure and its former owners, is fascinating.įort Bragg has over 6,000 archaeological sites recorded on its 160,000 acres of land. Why would an abandoned structure still standing in 1922 be named as such, and is there more to the story of this haunted house?Ī spooky ghost story just in time for the Halloween this is not. While studying a 1922 map overlay of Fort Bragg and its land, a puzzling discovery was made - a structure near Lamont’s Bridge was labeled as “Haunted House,” the only instance of this members of the Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Management Program, or CRMP, had ever seen. (All Courtesy Photos from Cultural Resource Management Program)įORT BRAGG, N.C. ![]() ![]() 1918-1928 Overhills Property Map, Cumberland County, NC.
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