![]() ![]() Stories are told about the orphanage building as a space filled with the spirits of children who wander the halls singing nursery rhymes. ![]() A small room in the winery building houses “George,” the skeleton of an Odd Fellows member who died in the 1880s and donated his body to science he was later returned to the IOOF to be used in initiation rituals. There is also a cemetery located on the northern end of the property where the remains of nearly six hundred people are buried. The other buildings-the old folks home, hospital and nursing home/morgue-are abandoned and in various states of decay. The property today consists of the old orphanage, which is now home to Belvoir Winery & Inn. ![]() This chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows goes back to the early twentieth century and was built to provide care for its members, widows and orphans on what was then a two hundred and forty-acre farm in Liberty. The Odd Fellows compound in Liberty has a long-running reputation for being haunted. ![]()
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