The story
Spell Hall, the General Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island, was built in 1770 by Greene himself — the Quaker ironmaster who became George Washington's most trusted general, architect of the Southern campaign that broke British power before Yorktown — and he lived here with his wife Caty until war and later Georgia took them south; preserved by a memorial association, the plain, dignified house above the Pawtuxet River is a museum of Greene family furnishings and Revolutionary memory. Its ghost lore is soft-spoken and affectionate: caretakers, volunteers and visitors over the years have described candle- or lamplight at the windows of the closed house, footsteps on the stairs and in the chambers, doors unlatching, the rustle of skirts, and a benign presence in the family rooms, attributed in telling to the Greenes and their kin — none of it anchored to documented events, all of it told fondly at a house proud of its family. These accounts should be presented as caretaker and visitor telling at a heritage museum. Seasonal opening hours and tour details should be confirmed with the homestead before publishing.