The story
Ferry Plantation House stands in a Virginia Beach neighbourhood on land layered with colonial history: a ferry landing from the 1600s, the site of Princess Anne County's early courthouse — where, tradition holds, Grace Sherwood, the 'Witch of Pungo', faced the accusations that led to her 1706 ducking in the nearby river, an injustice Virginia formally regretted three centuries later — and successive plantations whose labour included enslaved people, acknowledged plainly. The present brick farmhouse of 1830 survived war and suburbia to become a volunteer-run museum interpreting all these layers, with Sherwood's story and an annual commemoration at its heart. The museum tells its hauntings cheerfully, counting eleven: a lady in white on the staircase, a Civil War-era figure, children in the garden, a woman at the window, footsteps and moved objects — volunteer and visitor telling, unverified and warmly kept, with Sherwood herself said to return as mist by the water on her ducking's anniversary. Present history first, the spirits as museum folklore; opening days from official pages.