Christopher S. Larsen, the author of 'Haunted Mantorville: Trailing the Ghosts of Old Minnesota, recently told the Star Tribune “It’s pretty much the most haunted town in the Midwest per capita.”
Located three miles away from the town center and just outside of New Canaan’s borders, the Silvermine Tavern has been an institution for most New Canaanites. The tavern, pictured above, was built by Joseph Cocker c. 1810 as a cotton factory. The business could not have been too successful because, when Cocker died in 1812, […]