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Bancroft's Castle

Groton, MA

Stone ruins on Gibbet Hill are all that remain of General William Bancroft's ambitious early twentieth-century country estate. The unfinished structure later became a private club before burning, leaving castle-like walls that can now be reached by public hiking trails.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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