Holiday Dorsey

Built in 1855 by Dr. John Stiles Holliday, uncle of the famous gunfighter Doc Holliday, this Greek Revival house served as his medical practice from 1847 to 1865 before passing to the Dorsey and then the Fife families. The city acquired it in 1999 and opened it as a museum in 2003. Despite its connection to Doc Holliday's family, the ghost most associated with the house is not Doc himself but John Manson Dorsey, known as "Manse," who served as flag bearer for the first Confederate company to leave Fayette County during the Civil War. Staff and visitors report his presence throughout the home, and the museum has hosted Halloween-week ghost storytelling events in its candlelit rooms.