When the Civil War broke out, the hotel was used as a hospital for over 70,000. The Gordonsville train depot artifacts are currently housed here as well, so you can explore train travel in the 1800s (an integral part of the hotel’s history), the origins of the name “Exchange Hotel”, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad mascot kitty, “Chessie”. Located 19 miles northeast of Charlottesville, the town of Gordonsville. The bottom floor contains a reproduction of the original hotel tavern–and humorous details about the “whistle walk”. The museum is broken into a few segments to represent various aspects of the building’s diverse life, but overall flows well and makes sense. However, I have no particular hankering to dabble in the realm of Creepy (or to provoke my overactive imagination), so my husband and I opted for a more conventional approach and visited the Exchange Hotel during daytime hours, 10AM-4PM. In their backyard.įor those looking to scare up some spooks themselves (or debunk the rumors), there’s the “Night the Museum” tour, which, according to the website, allows you to answer for yourself the question “…what happens after the museum closes, everyone goes home and darkness falls?” Check it out. According to the records, the hospital treated up to 70,000 soldiers during the war, and, temporarily, had around 700 of them buried there. This comes as no surprise, considering the building once functioned as a receiving hospital for wounded Civil War soldiers. Gordonsville’s Exchange Hotel is billed, according to A&E “History Channel”, as #15 on their “TOP 100 Most Haunted Places in the Country”. For those of you looking to put your Halloween celebration on steroids (or just enjoy the spine-tingling effects of the Unexplained), you’ll want to take note.
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