About This Location
The heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, once a settler cemetery from 1837 to 1846. In 1922, the remains of Samuel Warren and William Nelson were discovered during excavation for the Lincoln statue.
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The Ghost Story
Brass grave markers for Warren and Nelson still mark their resting places on the hill. Passersby have reported ghostly figures of an older and younger man walking near the Lincoln statue. An apparition described as being from a different time, wearing a bowler hat, has been seen walking up and down the stairs of Bascom Hall. The dead were supposedly moved in 1846, but clearly not all of them.
