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Lindenwood, at 2324 West Main Street, is Fort Wayne's famous burying ground: 175 acres bought by the trustees on 5 July 1859 for $7,627.50 and laid out by John Chislett of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery in the picturesque manner — winding drives, ornamental planting, ground composed as a park. It holds more than 74,000 interments, and its landscape and burials are treated in the Famous Locations chapter. Its ghost is a gentleman of the Victorian era: a politician, the tellings say, who walks the grounds in the early morning — on misty mornings, in the fuller versions — wearing a top hat and carrying a cane, and who vanishes when he realises he is watched.
The telling can be traced through the modern canon: it is one of the Fort Wayne entries in the Willis folklore tradition, repeated by the Waynedale News on 27 October 2017 ("a Victorian-era politician, who strolls the 175-acre property on misty mornings, carrying his cane and sporting a top hat") and by Fort Wayne Magazine's haunted-places list, and it circulates in the national listicles from 2016 onward. What no telling supplies is a name. Lindenwood holds senators, congressmen, mayors and industrialists in number, and any of a dozen top-hatted careers could be nominated — but the record nominates none, and this history follows the record. The cemetery's documented monument lore — the statesmen's stones, the soldiers' ground, the moved and re-erected markers — is a rich file, and it lives in the Famous Locations chapter; the ghost is a separate and smaller thing, a figure the grounds are said to produce at dawn, attached to no grave that anyone has pointed to in print.
Sources: Waynedale News, "Creepy Tales & Spooky Occurrences," 27 October 2017; Fort Wayne Magazine, haunted-places list (fortwayne.com); Eskify, "10 Haunted Places in Fort Wayne" (20 April 2016); the Famous Locations section of this history (Lindenwood's founding, design and interments).