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Haunted
Pillar
This pillar on the corner of 5th and Broad Street is the sole remnant of the old Lower Market, which stood in the middle of Broad Street. According to legend, an itinerant preacher upset that local authorities prohibited him from preaching in the market, cursed the City and prophesied the destruction of the market. Shortly thereafter, in 1878, a cyclone struck and leveled the market. A year later when construction on a new market was begun, a local grocer brought the pillar for $50 and moved it to this corner. Another story recounts that when the street was widened, two men moving the pillar were struck by lightning.