Highland County Historical Society presents annual 'Ghost Walk'
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The Highland County Historical Society hosted their annual Ghost Walk Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the Hillsboro Cemetery.
Attendees learned about several figures from Highland County history during the event.
Portraying “ghosts” this year were:
• Jeff Beery as Dr. William Henry Harrison Dunn, a Hillsboro drugstore owner;
• Tara Beery as Virginia Bell, who gave up a stage career in New York City to return to the company her grandfather founded, the C.S. Bell Foundry;
• Bob Brown, as R.R. Grim, a fictional 19th-century undertaker, who hosted the event;
• Tim Hennison as Barney Harewood, patriarch of the Harewood family and a community leader;
• Earl Smith as Samuel E. Hibben, who founded S.E. Hibben Company, a merchant business in Hillsboro which was a staple in the uptown area for well over 100 years; and
• John T. Willis as Samuel Gibson, one of two soldiers from the Revolutionary War buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery.
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Attendees learned about several figures from Highland County history during the event.
Portraying “ghosts” this year were:
• Jeff Beery as Dr. William Henry Harrison Dunn, a Hillsboro drugstore owner;
• Tara Beery as Virginia Bell, who gave up a stage career in New York City to return to the company her grandfather founded, the C.S. Bell Foundry;
• Bob Brown, as R.R. Grim, a fictional 19th-century undertaker, who hosted the event;
• Tim Hennison as Barney Harewood, patriarch of the Harewood family and a community leader;
• Earl Smith as Samuel E. Hibben, who founded S.E. Hibben Company, a merchant business in Hillsboro which was a staple in the uptown area for well over 100 years; and
• John T. Willis as Samuel Gibson, one of two soldiers from the Revolutionary War buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery.
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