Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
1 July
- 1981 – A fire, possibly intentionally set, kills a 47-year-old woman inside the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her spirit is believed to continue haunting the building.
2 July
3 July
4 July
- 1980 – The Carousel at Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland is listed on the National Register of Historic Place.
5 July
6 July
- 1962 – Author William Faulkner, whose home, Rowan Oak, is now preserved as a museum, dies.
7 July
- 1865 – Four conspirators including Mary Surratt, found guilty in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, are hanged are executed in Washington, D. C. This group was suspected of having planned much of the assassination at Mrs. Surratt’s Boarding House, now occupied by Wok and Roll Chinese and Japanese Restaurant.
8 July
9 July
- 1850 – President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the White House.
10 July
11 July
12 July
- 1913 – Asheville, North Carolina’s popular Grove Park Inn opens.
13 July
- 1862 – Confederate troops break into the Union occupied Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- 1862 – A skirmish is fought on the lawn of Oaklands, now Historic Oaklands House Museum, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
14 July
15 July
16 July
- 1790 – The District of Columbia is established.
17 July
18 July
19 July
20 July
21 July
- 1861 – First Battle of Bull Run is fought just outside of Manassass, Virginia.
22 July
23 July
24 July
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson dies at his home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
25 July
26 July
27 July
- 1826 – General James Winchester dies at his home, Cragfont, in Castalian Springs, Tennessee.
28 July
- 1854 – USS Constellation is commissioned.
29 July
30 July
- 1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion begins, see Bacon’s Castle in Surry, Virginia.