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    DeSoto House Hotel

    GalenaUnited States1855

    The DeSoto House Hotel, opened in April 1855 in historic Galena, Illinois, is the oldest operating hotel in the state. Renowned for hosting Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman, the hotel's grand Victorian architecture and storied past have nurtured decades of haunting claims, including apparitions in 19th-century attire, phantom cigar smoke, and disembodied voices.

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