page_title: Gore Orphanage
section_title: Location aspect
hierarchical_section_title: Gore Orphanage / History of the Gore Orphanage legend / Location aspect
caption_attribution_description: English: The actual location of Swift Mansion (Gore Orphanage).
context_page_description: Gore Orphanage is the subject of a local legend in Northern Ohio, which refers to a supposedly haunted ruin near the city of Vermilion in Lorain County, Ohio. The ruin is a building that formerly housed the Swift Mansion and later, the Light of Hope Orphanage, and is the subject of local urban legends, whereby the violent deaths of young adults and children are alleged to have occurred. According to the urban legends, supernatural activity has occurred in the building since its closure.
  Though historians have concluded that Gore Orphanage itself never existed, the legend claims that in 1800s Vermilion, Ohio, a fire was set which killed many children and one African American woman, whose ghosts now haunt the ruins. Historians also have determined that Gore Orphanage is the name of a road, not a building, and many unrelated people, places, and events simply have been combined into a ghost story.
context_section_description: The location that is claimed to be the actual site of Gore Orphanage is in fact the remains of Swift Mansion, also called Swift's Hollow, which was built and owned in 1840–42 by Joseph Swift. Gore Orphanage Road is the only location in Vermilion, Ohio, whose name contains the words "Gore Orphanage."  Originally, the road was called simply "Gore Road," referring not to blood or tissue (as the ghost story implies) but to a surveyor's error in a gore (a narrow strip of land) along this road. The word "orphanage" in the road's name actually refers to the Light of Hope Orphanage, which is less than one mile away from the supposed Gore Orphanage site.
caption: The actual location of Swift Mansion
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