A Federal-era Tilghman family house in Easton that ghost-walk guides call the town's most haunted home, tied to a relative said to have been confined to the third floor.
24 N Aurora St, Easton, MD 21601
Research updated June 2026
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Private residence viewed from the public sidewalk on the Easton ghost walk; no admission to the house
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Town sidewalk in front of a private home; no interior access
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Est. 1795 · Federal-period Easton dwelling, built circa 1795 · Tilghman family home (Oswald Tilghman) · Climactic stop on the Easton ghost walk
Foxley Hall stands at 24 North Aurora Street in Easton, the county seat of Talbot County. Built around 1795, it is among the better-documented of the town's Federal-period houses. It is associated with the Tilghman family: it was the home of Oswald Tilghman, a great-grandson of Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, the Eastern Shore officer who served as an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the Revolution.
The house remains a private residence. It is not open to the public, and visitors encounter it from the sidewalk rather than from inside. Its place in local memory comes partly from the family name and partly from its long-running role on Easton's ghost walk, where it is the climactic stop.
Chesapeake Ghost Tours describes Foxley Hall as the most haunted house in Easton and ends its guided night walk there. The walk also passes the Talbot County Court House and old jail, the Tidewater Inn, the Avalon Theatre, the old Easton hospital, and the Odd Fellows Hall, but Foxley Hall is the stop the tour is built around.
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The lore that the Easton Ghost Walk attaches to Foxley Hall centers on a relative who, by the tour's telling, was confined to the house's third floor. The account treats that confinement as the reason the home is said to be unquiet, and it is described on the walk without graphic or clinical detail.
Reported phenomena collected for the tour include mist and fog appearing inside the kitchen and living areas, and a woman's screams heard from a third-floor room. Guides and write-ups also mention objects that disappear and reappear and unexplained electrical disturbances. The Easton Ghost Walk's own social posts call Foxley Hall the most haunted house in Easton and use it as the final stop of the evening.
Because the building is a private home, none of this is experienced inside; the story reaches visitors entirely from the street. The reports are tour-and-author accounts rather than independently investigated claims, and no specific living individual is identified in connection with them.
Notable Entities
Foxley Hall is one of the stops on the guided night walk through Easton run by Chesapeake Ghost Tours. The house is private and is viewed only from the public sidewalk while the guide recounts its history and lore.
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