Highland Manor (Townsend's Plantation)

Built by the Eldredge family in 1903 and moved to the corner of US 441 and SR 436 in 1985 after facing demolition, this mansion now operates as the wedding venue Highland Manor. Dr. T.E. "Tommy" McBride, one of Apopka's first physicians, and his wife Helen, an aviation trainer, lived here from the 1920s. In 1956 Helen confessed to fatally shooting Charles Richard Green, a National Airlines ticket agent, after he struck her during a property dispute, and she was reportedly allowed to remain in the house given her husband's standing. After Dr. McBride died in 1978 the house stood abandoned for about seven years, and stories of ghosts roaming the second floor and doors opening on their own followed. Today the building has a reputation for loud bangs in the attic, where no one is permitted to go, and for the sensation of something brushing against visitors when they are alone.