100 haunted destinations cataloged across Georgia, spanning 45 counties. The collection features museum, cemetery, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Athens, GA
The Lustrat House was built in 1847 as a UGA professor's residence and is one of two surviving antebellum faculty residences on the campus. The building was moved on campus in 1903 to make way for the present-day Administration building and was renamed for Joseph Lustrat, who chaired the Department of Romance Languages. It now houses the UGA Office of Legal Affairs.
Athens, GA
The hotel occupies the historic Athens Foundry complex, the iron mill that cast the UGA Arch. The property reopened as Graduate Athens in 2014, has since rebranded as Hotel Abacus Athens, and continues to operate as a boutique hotel and event venue.
Athens, GA
Joe Brown Hall, built in 1932, was originally a men's dormitory and is now an academic and administrative building at the University of Georgia. The hall is named for Joseph E. Brown, the 42nd governor of Georgia and a proponent of secession during the Civil War.
Athens, GA
Waddel Hall is the second-oldest building on the UGA campus, completed in 1821. Originally a dormitory, it has served as a boarding house, gymnasium, snack bar, and scientific-equipment storage, and is currently the UGA Office of Special Events.
Atlanta, GA
Lakewood Amphitheatre opened in July 1989 on the historic Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta, an 18,920-capacity Live Nation venue that has carried at least six sponsor names including HiFi Buys Amphitheatre (2001–2007) and currently Cellairis. The surrounding fairgrounds hosted the Southeastern Fair from 1915 to 1975 and the Lakewood Speedway from 1917 to 1979, the latter the site of multiple documented racing fatalities.
St. Simons Island, GA
In May 1803, captive Igbo people who had taken control of a small vessel near Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Georgia chose to walk into the marsh rather than submit to enslavement. The event is commemorated by a Georgia Historical Society marker and recognized by the National Park Service as one of the earliest documented acts of large-scale resistance by enslaved Africans in North America.
Savannah, GA
The 17Hundred90 Inn and Restaurant occupies three adjoining historic buildings in downtown Savannah, Georgia. The oldest section is traditionally dated to 1790, with the larger surviving structure built between 1821 and 1823 and a third addition added in 1888. The complex operates today as a fourteen-room inn and dinner restaurant.
Savannah, GA
Bonaventure Cemetery is a Victorian-era burial ground in Savannah, Georgia, established as part of the city's 19th-century cemetery expansion. Its most famous burial is that of Gracie Watson, a young girl who died of pneumonia on April 7, 1889, two days before Easter. Her father, W.J. Watson, manager of the Pulaski Hotel in Savannah, commissioned sculptor John Walz to create a life-sized marble statue as a memorial—a monument that has become one of the most visited graves in Georgia.
Savannah, GA
The Andrew Low House was completed in 1849 for Scottish-born cotton merchant Andrew Low, then one of the wealthiest men in Savannah. The Greek Revival town house hosted William Makepeace Thackeray and Robert E. Lee, and became the residence of Juliette Gordon Low — Andrew Low's daughter-in-law — who founded the Girl Scouts of the United States in the house on March 12, 1912.
Savannah, GA
Colonial Park Cemetery was established in 1750 as Savannah's principal burial ground and remained active through 1853. The six-acre site at Abercorn and Oglethorpe Avenue holds Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a mass grave for nearly seven hundred victims of the 1820 yellow fever epidemic.
Savannah, GA
Fort Pulaski is a brick coastal fort on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River, constructed between 1829 and 1847. The April 1862 Union bombardment with new rifled cannon breached the fort's masonry walls in 30 hours, demonstrating that masonry forts had become obsolete. In late 1864 the fort held the Immortal Six Hundred, Confederate officers held in retaliation; thirteen died on the island.
Savannah, GA
Fort Pulaski occupies Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River, fifteen miles east of Savannah. Constructed between 1829 and 1847 as part of the United States's Third System of coastal fortifications, the fort is the site where rifled artillery first breached a masonry fort in combat, on April 11, 1862, signaling the obsolescence of brick coastal defenses.
Savannah, GA
William Kehoe, an Irish immigrant who built a fortune running a Savannah iron foundry, commissioned architect DeWitt Bruyn to design this Queen Anne Revival mansion on Columbia Square in 1892. Kehoe spent $25,000 on the construction — an enormous sum — and much of the exterior ornament was cast in iron from his own foundry. The house served as a funeral parlor and was briefly owned by NFL quarterback Joe Namath before opening as a bed and breakfast in 1990.
Savannah, GA
Wright Square in Savannah, Georgia is one of the city's original colonial squares, laid out under General James Oglethorpe's 1733 city plan. On January 19, 1735, Irish indentured servant Alice Riley was hanged there — the first woman executed in the Georgia colony. Chief Tomochichi of the Yamacraw tribe, Oglethorpe's key Native American ally, was later buried in the square; his burial site was subsequently displaced by a monument to a local businessman.
Savannah, GA
The Pirates' House occupies a structure that began in 1734 as the Herb House on James Oglethorpe's Trustees' Garden tract. In 1753 the site opened as an inn for seafarers and quickly became a meeting place for sailors and crew working the Savannah River port. The Savannah Gas Company acquired the property in 1948, and the modern restaurant opened in 1953.
Savannah, GA
The Sorrel-Weed House was built around 1840 for shipping merchant Francis Sorrel to a design by architect Charles Cluskey, who moved to Savannah from New York in 1829. The mansion was one of the first two Georgia State Landmarks designated in 1954 and is among the finest Greek Revival and Regency residences in Savannah.
Savannah, GA
The Marshall House opened in 1851, developed by Mary Marshall, who became one of Savannah's most respected businesswomen. During the Civil War, Union forces occupied the building and used it as a hospital. The hotel also served as a hospital during the 1854 and 1876 yellow fever epidemics. During a late 1990s restoration, workers discovered human remains beneath the first-floor boards — amputated limbs from the Civil War surgery room that had been deposited there.
Savannah, GA
Bradley Lock & Key was founded in 1883 by Simon Bradley and is recognized as the oldest business in continuous operation in Savannah. The shop has stood in the Patrick Duffy Building at 24 East State Street, on the northeast tything block of Wright Square, since 1967. William 'Dini' Bradley — middle-named Houdini after his father Aaron, a stage hypnotist who reportedly traveled with Harry Houdini — owned the shop from the 1950s until his 2019 retirement.
Savannah, GA
The Federal-style brick mansion at 324 East State Street was built in 1820 by Rhode Island-born master-builder Isaiah Davenport (1784-1827). Davenport, who also served Savannah as alderman, fire master, constable, and a member of the board of health, died of yellow fever on September 16, 1827, at age 43. The 1955 effort to save the deteriorating house from demolition launched the Historic Savannah Foundation and Savannah's modern historic-preservation movement; the museum opened in 1963.
Savannah, GA
Built in 1873 for Virginia-born businessman Samuel Pugh Hamilton (1837-1899), the Second Empire-style mansion at 330 Abercorn Street was the first private residence in Savannah with electricity, installed in 1883 through Hamilton's work with the Brush Electric Light & Power Company. The home passed through multiple owners — including the Turner family, the Catholic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, and the Historic Savannah Foundation — before opening as a luxury inn in 1997.
Savannah, GA
The Savannah Theatre opened on December 4, 1818, with a performance of 'The Soldier's Daughter,' in a building designed by English-born Regency architect William Jay. The site has hosted live performances and films continuously for more than two centuries, making it one of the oldest continually operating theaters in the United States on its original location.
Savannah, GA
Construction of the Regency-style brick townhouse at 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue began in 1818 for James Moore Wayne, a Savannah mayor and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice; the home was completed in 1821. In 1831 the Gordon family acquired the property, and on October 31, 1860, Juliette Magill Kinzie 'Daisy' Gordon was born there. She founded Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912. The Girl Scouts purchased the property in 1953 and opened it as a museum in 1956; the home was designated Savannah's first National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Savannah, GA
The Lucas Theatre opened December 26, 1921, with a screening of Rudolph Valentino's 'Camille' and the short 'Hard Luck.' Designed by architect Claude K. Howell for theater impresario Arthur Lucas, it was Savannah's first air-conditioned building. The theater closed in 1976, narrowly escaped demolition, and reopened in December 2000 after a $4 million restoration; SCAD has managed the venue since 2002.
Savannah, GA
Funded by an 1841 bequest of $5,000 from Scottish-born Peter Massie of Glynn County and designed by architect John Norris, the Massie Common School House opened in 1856 as Savannah's first public school. Union forces used it as a hospital during Sherman's 1864 occupation. It closed as a school at the end of the 1974 school year and reopened in 1978 as the Massie Heritage Center.
Savannah, GA
Construction of the Italianate mansion at 429 Bull Street began in 1860 for Confederate General Hugh Weedon Mercer and was completed in 1868, after the Civil War. Antiques dealer Jim Williams purchased and restored the home in 1969. Williams was tried four times and ultimately acquitted in 1989 for the 1981 shooting death of Danny Hansford inside the house; Williams himself died at the home in January 1990. The property has operated as the Mercer Williams House Museum since 2004, with the upper floors retained as a private residence by Williams's sister, Dorothy Williams Kingery.
Savannah, GA
Construction of the Habersham House began in 1771 by the Habersham family — one of Savannah's founding families — and was completed in 1789 for James Habersham Jr. (1745-1799). The building survived Savannah's catastrophic 1796 fire, served as the Planters Bank of Georgia beginning in 1812, briefly housed Union General Zebulon York's headquarters during the Civil War, and has operated as The Olde Pink House restaurant since 1971.
Savannah, GA
The English Regency mansion at 124 Abercorn Street was designed by English-born architect William Jay (1792-1837) — one of the first professionally trained architects to practice in the United States — and completed in 1819 for cotton merchant Richard Richardson. After Richardson's financial collapse, the home was purchased in 1830 by attorney George Welshman Owens. The Marquis de Lafayette addressed Savannah from the south-facing cast-iron veranda on March 19, 1825. Margaret Thomas, Owens's granddaughter, bequeathed the property to the Telfair Academy in 1951. The mansion is a National Historic Landmark and operates as the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters under Telfair Museums.
Savannah, GA
Taylor Square was laid out in 1851 as the last of James Oglethorpe's Savannah ward squares to be completed. The block had previously been used as an unmarked 'Strangers Burial Ground' and 'Potter's Field' for the burial of enslaved African Americans and the city's poor. In 1855 the remains of two enslaved residents, Emily and Rinah, were relocated to Laurel Grove Cemetery, but many burials remained beneath the square. Savannah City Council voted in November 2022 to rename Calhoun Square; in August 2023 the city formally renamed it Taylor Square in honor of Susie King Taylor.
Savannah, GA
The Telfair Academy is the original Telfair family mansion, designed circa 1818 by English architect William Jay for Alexander Telfair. Mary Telfair bequeathed the house and its contents to the Georgia Historical Society in 1875, and after additions by German-born architect Detlef Lienau, it opened in 1886 as the first public art museum in the American South.
Athens, GA
Candler Hall was built in 1901 as a UGA men's residence hall and was named for Allen D. Candler, then governor of Georgia. The building, which could house up to 84 students at opening, has been adapted for academic and administrative use.
Athens, GA
The Classic Center is an Athens performing arts and convention center that incorporates the preserved 1912 Fire Hall No. 1. The historic firehouse, originally slated for demolition during the Classic Center's late-1980s construction, was saved by community advocacy and now houses the box office, meeting space, and a fire-history display.
Athens, GA
Demosthenian Hall, built in 1824, is the fourth-oldest building at the University of Georgia and is home to the Demosthenian Literary Society, founded in 1803 — the longest continuously running student organization in the country. The two-story tan stucco building served as headquarters for occupying Union troops during the Civil War.
Athens, GA
Built in 1910 by Monroe Bowers 'Pink' Morton, the Morton Theatre is one of the first vaudeville theatres in the United States built, owned, and operated by an African-American and is the oldest such surviving theatre. It hosted Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Ma Rainey in its heyday.
Athens, GA
Oconee Hill Cemetery was purchased by the city of Athens in 1855 when burials at the older Jackson Street Cemetery were closed. A self-perpetuating Board of Trustees was created in 1856 to manage the original 17 acres on the west side of the North Oconee River. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Athens, GA
Established around 1810, the Old Athens Cemetery — also called the Jackson Street Cemetery — was Athens's official burial ground from about 1810 to 1856, when Oconee Hill Cemetery opened. Approximately 800 graves remain, including two UGA presidents. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Athens, GA
The Taylor-Grady House is a Greek Revival residence built in the mid-1840s for General Robert Taylor, an Irish immigrant cotton merchant and Georgia militia leader. In 1863 it was purchased by Major William S. Grady, father of the journalist Henry W. Grady, who spent his childhood there. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and is owned by the City of Athens.
Athens, GA
The T.R.R. Cobb House began as a Greek Revival 'Plantation Plain' house built about 1834 and given in 1844 to Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and his bride Marion Lumpkin by Marion's father, Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Cobb expanded the residence into its distinctive octagon-wing form by 1852. The home now operates as an Athens house museum interpreting the Cobb family and the people they enslaved.
Athens, GA
The Ware-Lyndon House is a mid-19th-century historic home built circa 1850 in a blend of Greek Revival and Italianate styles. Originally owned by Edward R. Ware, the property was sold to Dr. Edward S. Lyndon in 1880, purchased by the City of Athens in 1939, restored in 1960, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Atlanta, GA
The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse is an Elizabethan-style theater in downtown Atlanta and the home of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company. The company began producing at Manuel's Tavern in 1984 and moved to its current Peachtree Street home in 1990. A 1999 $1.6 million renovation added a Globe-inspired balcony, and a 2006 $500,000 renovation added a Globe-inspired facade.
Atlanta, GA
The DuPre Excelsior Mill at 695 North Avenue produced excelsior — fine wood-wool packing material — for the railroad era; Wikipedia notes construction may date as early as 1890 with documented activity by 1907. Excelsior production collapsed after WWII; the building became a pizzeria-theater in 1977-78, then the Masquerade nightclub from 1989 to 2016, and has since been redeveloped as 'The Mill,' a mixed-use complex along the Atlanta BeltLine.
Atlanta, GA
The Ellis Hotel occupies the rebuilt 1913 Winecoff Hotel, a 15-story William Lee Stoddart-designed building at 176 Peachtree Street NW in downtown Atlanta. The Winecoff Hotel fire of December 7, 1946 killed 119 people and remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. The building was renovated in 2006-2007 and reopened as the Ellis Hotel on October 1, 2007.
Atlanta, GA
The Fox Theatre opened on Christmas Day 1929 as a movie palace originally designed as the Yaarab Shrine Temple. The 4,665-seat venue at 660 Peachtree Street NE was designed by Olivier J. Vinour of the firm Marye, Alger and Vinour in a lavish Moorish and Egyptian Revival style. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976 and operates today as a major concert and touring-show venue.
Atlanta, GA
The Margaret Mitchell House was built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a Tudor Revival single-family residence at 979 Crescent Avenue NE (collectively addressed today as 990 Peachtree). Converted to the 10-unit Crescent Apartments in 1919. Margaret Mitchell and husband John Marsh lived in Apartment 1 from 1925-1932, where she wrote most of her 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Gone with the Wind.' The building suffered two arson fires (1994 and 1996) and was reconstructed, rededicated May 16, 1997.
Atlanta, GA
Historic Oakland Cemetery was chartered in 1850 as the six-acre 'Atlanta Cemetery,' renamed Oakland in 1872, and expanded to 48 acres. Approximately 70,000 people are interred, including roughly 6,900 Confederate soldiers (3,000 unidentified), four Confederate generals, six Georgia governors, 27 Atlanta mayors, Margaret Mitchell, golfer Bobby Jones, and Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first African American mayor. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1976.
Atlanta, GA
Oakland Cemetery was founded in 1850 as Atlanta Cemetery on six acres purchased from A. W. Wooding on the city's southeastern edge; renamed Oakland in 1872 for its oak and magnolia trees, it expanded over the late 19th century to 48 acres and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1976.
Atlanta, GA
Rhodes Hall was built 1902-1904 for furniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes, founder of Rhodes Furniture. Designed by Atlanta architect Willis F. Denny II of Stone Mountain granite in a Romanesque Revival style with Victorian and Arts and Crafts interior elements. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974; Atlanta Landmark Building since 1989; headquarters of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation since 1983.
Atlanta, GA
The Wren's Nest is a Queen Anne-style historic house in Atlanta's West End neighborhood. Built circa 1868 with major 1884 Queen Anne renovations; rented by Joel Chandler Harris from 1881, purchased 1883, and his residence until his 1908 death. Designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1962. Operated as Atlanta's oldest house museum.
Andersonville, GA
Andersonville National Historic Site preserves Camp Sumter, the largest Confederate military prison of the Civil War, where nearly 13,000 of approximately 45,000 Union prisoners died in 14 months from disease, starvation, and exposure. The site also encompasses Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum, the only National Park unit dedicated to all American POWs.
Andersonville, GA
Andersonville National Cemetery was established adjacent to the Camp Sumter prison stockade in 1864 to inter the Union soldiers dying there in large numbers. The cemetery holds 13,714 Civil War-era graves, the majority prisoners who died at the adjacent prison. It remains an active national cemetery where veterans continue to be buried.
Andersonville, GA
Camp Sumter, commonly called Andersonville Prison, was a Confederate prisoner of war facility that operated in southwestern Georgia from February 1864 to April or May 1865. It held approximately 45,000 Union soldiers across its existence; nearly 13,000 died there from disease, malnutrition, and exposure. Camp commandant Henry Wirz was convicted of war crimes and executed in 1865. The site is now the Andersonville National Historic Site, maintained by the National Park Service.
Dahlonega, GA
The Holly Theater opened on July 12, 1948 as a movie theater built by Randall Holly Brannon in the Art Moderne style designed by G.R. Vinson. After 50 years of dormancy it was restored and now operates as a nonprofit theatrical venue.
Dahlonega, GA
Mt. Hope Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery within the city of Dahlonega, Georgia, established alongside the town in 1833. The first recorded burial was Samuel Darter, the same year. The cemetery is the burial place of veterans from every American war back to the Revolution and features the regionally distinctive slot-and-tab grave markers.
Dahlonega, GA
The Dahlonega Gold Museum occupies the 1836 Lumpkin County Courthouse, the oldest existing courthouse in Georgia. The building served as the seat of Lumpkin County government from 1836 to 1965 and is now a Georgia State Parks State Historic Site, with bricks containing trace amounts of gold.
Dawsonville, GA
Amicalola Falls State Park & Lodge sits in the North Georgia Mountains in Dawson County. The name comes from the Cherokee for 'tumbling waters,' referencing the 729-foot cascading waterfall — among the tallest cascading falls east of the Mississippi. The lodge was built in 1990 by the State of Georgia with 57 guestrooms and 14 cabins. The park serves as the official start of the Appalachian Trail's approach route.
Dawsonville, GA
Salem Church and Graveyard is a rural church property in Dawson County, Georgia, off Salem Church Road north of Dawsonville. The church property is private and is reported in local folklore writing as being police-patrolled at night following recurring trespass incidents.
Fort Oglethorpe, GA
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was established by Congress in 1890 as America's first and largest national military park. It preserves the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, which produced approximately 34,000 casualties across two days, and the November 1863 Battles for Chattanooga that broke the Confederate siege of the city.
Fort Oglethorpe, GA
The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863, was the Civil War's second-bloodiest engagement with 34,624 casualties. A Confederate tactical victory that was soon rendered strategically meaningless when Union forces broke the siege of Chattanooga. The national military park established here in 1890 was the first of its kind in the United States.
Kennesaw, GA
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought June 19 through July 2, 1864, was a major engagement in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under General Johnston held the mountain and surrounding terrain, inflicting roughly 3,000 Union casualties when Sherman ordered a frontal assault on June 27. Total campaign casualties near Kennesaw reached approximately 5,000. The NPS park preserves the mountain and surrounding battlefield including Kolb's Farm.
Kennesaw, GA
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park preserves 2,965 acres of the June 1864 Atlanta Campaign battleground in Cobb County, Georgia. Union General William T. Sherman's frontal assault on Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's defensive line failed on June 27, 1864. The park was authorized in 1917 and transferred to the National Park Service in 1933.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
A Methodist congregation has used this site in the Nacoochee Valley since the early 1820s, when the first church was built by the valley's initial white settlers. Six acres were formally deeded for the church and cemetery in 1836 by Major Edward Williams. The cemetery maintains an inventory of over 700 identified graves from the 19th century onward. A 1992 monument was installed near the slave graves to honor those buried without individual markers.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
The Nacoochee Mound is a South Appalachian Mississippian-period platform mound at the intersection of Georgia Highways 17 and 75, on the grounds of the Hardman Farm State Historic Site in White County. The site was first occupied between 100 and 500 CE by Woodland-period peoples and more intensively from 1350 to 1600 CE. A 1915 joint Smithsonian, Museum of the American Indian, and Bureau of American Ethnology excavation recovered 75 burials and Mississippian artifacts.
St. Simons Island, GA
The St. Simons Lighthouse is Georgia's oldest continuously operating lighthouse. Built in 1872 to replace a Civil War-era predecessor destroyed by retreating Confederate troops, it has guided ships into the Brunswick channel for more than 150 years. In 1880, head keeper Frederick Osborne was shot by his assistant John Stevens after a personal dispute.
St. Simons Island, GA
Christ Church, Frederica was established in February 1736 when Charles Wesley — brother of John Wesley and co-founder of Methodism — arrived at Fort Frederica as General James Oglethorpe's chaplain. The parish was formally organized in 1807 and incorporated by the Georgia Legislature on December 22, 1808, becoming the second oldest Episcopal church in the state. The present Gothic Revival church building dates to 1884, reconstructed by Anson Greene Phelps Dodge Jr. as a memorial to his wife. The surrounding cemetery contains graves dating to 1803.
Americus, GA
The Windsor Hotel opened in 1892 in downtown Americus, Georgia, built to draw winter tourists from the northeastern United States. The five-story Queen Anne building features a three-story open atrium lobby and now operates as a 53-room independent hotel in the Ascend Hotel Collection. Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a 1928 speech at the property.
Augusta, GA
The Partridge Inn was originally built in 1836 as a private residence in Augusta, Georgia. Morris Partridge purchased the property in 1892 and converted it into a hotel; the current building configuration dates substantially to its formal opening as a hotel in 1910. The Partridge Inn now operates as part of Hilton's Curio Collection.
Braselton, GA
Braselton Town Hall occupies the early-1900s Greek Revival home built by William Henry Braselton, the town's first mayor and one of four Braselton brothers whose family founded and built the surrounding community in Jackson County, Georgia.
Cave Spring, GA
The Georgia School for the Deaf was founded in Cave Spring in 1846, and its Fannin Hall building was erected in 1848. The school closed during the Civil War (roughly 1862-1867), when the building was used as a military hospital, including for wounded soldiers after fighting in the area. The City of Cave Spring acquired the original campus in 1997 and moved its offices into Fannin Hall in 1999.
Colquitt, GA
Mason Road in Miller County, Georgia runs parallel to White's Bridge Road near Colquitt. Spring Creek flows beneath White's Bridge at the southeast end of the road, where a small church and cemetery have stood for generations. Repeated flooding cycles have deposited and withdrawn creek water against the cemetery boundaries, with grave markers visible in the creek bed and on the eroded banks over time.
Columbus, GA
The Springer Opera House opened in 1871 in Columbus, Georgia, and was designated the official State Theater of Georgia in 1971. Named for Francis Joseph Springer, the German-born merchant who funded its construction, it hosted prominent touring performers throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Edwin Booth, Oscar Wilde, and John Philip Sousa. The building was restored in the late 20th century and remains an active performing arts venue.
Dallas, GA
Pickett's Mill Battlefield in Paulding County, Georgia preserves the site of a May 27, 1864 Civil War engagement during the Atlanta Campaign. The 765-acre state historic site is considered one of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields in the nation. The state acquired the land between 1973 and 1981, opening the site to the public in 1990.
Douglas, GA
The original Douglas Hospital, in Douglas, Georgia, opened in 1935 on land donated by the city on East Ward Street, growing from a small 1932 clinic founded by two local nurses. Renamed Coffee General Hospital in 1968, the facility expanded to 155 beds by 1975 before being replaced by the current Coffee Regional Medical Center campus in 1998. The original 1935 building has since been adapted for educational use.
Douglasville, GA
Gray Road is a roughly mile-and-a-half rural road in Douglas County, Georgia, west of Atlanta. Local legend names it for a Civil War officer surnamed Gray; no specific officer has been documented through Civil War records. The road sits in a region with substantial enslaved-people history that local folklore has folded into ghost-story form.
Greensboro, GA
Early Hill is a circa-1825 plantation house in Greene County, Georgia, two miles northwest of Greensboro. The two-and-a-half-story home was built for Joel Early Jr., son of one of Greene County's earliest Revolutionary-era settlers. By 1850 the plantation reached approximately 2,200 acres worked by sixty enslaved people. The property later operated as a bed and breakfast and is now closed to overnight guests.
Hawkinsville, GA
The R.J. Taylor Memorial Hospital was chartered in 1936 with a $100,000 gift from Robert Jenks Taylor Sr. and served Hawkinsville, Georgia until 1977, when operations moved to the new Taylor Regional Hospital on the north side of town. The Gothic-style building stood vacant for roughly 40 years before TBG Residential acquired it in 2016 and reopened it in October 2019 as Taylor Village, a 34-unit workforce-housing apartment complex.
Helen, GA
The Martin House in historic Nacoochee Village was built in 1876 by John Martin, the original owner of the nearby Nora Mill. The property later passed to the Hardman and Ivie families. At various points the building served as a boarding house and small hotel before being repurposed as an antique mall. The 1876 structure retains its three-story form and sits across from Nora Mill in White County.
Jeffersonville, GA
Historic Richland Baptist Church in Twiggs County, Georgia, was organized in October 1811 on the banks of Richland Creek. The current Greek Revival building, the third on the site, was constructed in the mid-1840s. The church is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned and stewarded by the nonprofit Richland Restoration League.
Jekyll Island, GA
The Jekyll Island Club was founded in 1886 when a group of wealthy New Yorkers and Georgians created a private hunting club on Jekyll Island, a barrier island off the Georgia coast. The clubhouse opened in 1887 and became a winter retreat for families including the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and J.P. Morgan's family. The club operated until World War II before being purchased by the state of Georgia in 1947.
Jonesboro, GA
The Warren House at 102 W Mimosa Drive in Jonesboro was built in 1859 for Guy Lewis Warren, a Connecticut native who married Mary Ruberry Vardell of Charleston. The house became Confederate headquarters during the August 31-September 1, 1864 Battle of Jonesborough and was then taken over by the 52nd Illinois Infantry as a hospital for both Union and Confederate wounded. Signatures of convalescing Union soldiers still appear on upstairs walls.
Kingston, GA
Hardin Bridge Road crosses the Etowah River in rural Bartow County, Georgia, near Kingston and Cartersville. The original narrow single-lane bridge still stands alongside a newer replacement span built around 2010-2011. The old bridge has periodically been closed for safety.
LaGrange, GA
McCosh Mill was a grist mill built in the early 1870s on the banks of Wehadkee Creek in Troup County, Georgia, by James Eichelburger McCosh, grandson of Rock Mills industrialist Jacob Eichelburger. The mill ground corn into meal and wheat into flour until 1958. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired the land in 1970 as part of the West Point Lake project, and the wood-frame structure later burned, leaving only the stone foundation and mill race.
Lawrenceville, GA
Little Gardens is a restored historic Lawrenceville home operating as a wedding and special-event venue in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The property has been adapted across multiple twentieth- and twenty-first-century uses, including a previous tenure as a fine-dining restaurant before its conversion to an events-primary model.
Lovejoy, GA
Lovejoy Road in Clayton County, Georgia passes through terrain that was the scene of active military engagement on August 20, 1864. The Battle of Lovejoy's Station was part of Major General William T. Sherman's campaign against Confederate supply lines during the Atlanta Campaign. Both sides reported approximately 237-240 casualties. The historic battlefield has largely been subsumed by suburban development.
Macon, GA
Mercer University was founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute in Penfield, Georgia, by Jesse Mercer, a Baptist leader who provided the founding endowment along with Josiah Penfield. The university relocated to Macon in 1871. Boone Hall was completed in 1950 and is named for Sallie Goelz Boone, who served the university from 1904 as librarian, literature professor, and counselor.
Marietta, GA
The Kennesaw House was built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse on what is now Marietta Square, adjacent to the railroad tracks that would define its Civil War history. Purchased by Dix Fletcher in 1855 and converted into the Fletcher House hotel, it served as both a staging point for the famous Great Locomotive Chase of April 1862 and as a hospital and morgue for Confederate and Union forces during Sherman's Atlanta campaign. Today it houses the Marietta History Center.
Milledgeville, GA
Georgia College & State University occupies a campus in Milledgeville, Georgia's antebellum state capital. The Old Governor's Mansion on campus housed ten Georgia governors from 1839 to 1868 before becoming part of the college. Sanford Hall, a campus residence hall, became the site of a 1952 tragedy when student Betty Jean Cook died there.
Millen, GA
Birdsville Plantation in Jenkins County, Georgia is a 50-acre property dating to circa 1789, established on land granted by King George III to the Welsh-born settler Francis Jones. The Greek Revival and Italianate front façade was added around 1847 under Henry Philip Jones. The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and remains owned by the Jones family.
Newnan, GA
The Old Newnan Hospital opened in 1925 as a community hospital in Newnan, Georgia, funded by a citywide subscription drive that raised the equivalent of approximately $20 million in present-day dollars. After serving Coweta County for 86 years, the hospital relocated in 2012 to a new Piedmont facility on Poplar Road. The original building was rehabilitated and reopened in 2015 as the University of West Georgia's Newnan campus.
Newton, GA
Hard-Up Road, also called Seven Churches Road, is a remote dirt track in Baker County, Georgia near Newton. Despite its name, only three Baptist churches ever stood along the road: Mount Airy Baptist, Weldon Springs Baptist, and Mount Ephesus (a small Black congregation). The churches were established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; they gradually fell into disrepair, and the road itself was purchased by Pineland Plantation, removing it from public access. The Adams Family Cemetery remains on a spur off Colquitt-Ford Road.
Richmond Hill, GA
Fort McAllister was an earthwork Confederate fort constructed in 1861 by the Dekalb Rifles on the Ogeechee River south of Savannah. Along with Fort Pulaski and Fort James Jackson, it formed Savannah's outer defenses. Resisting seven Union naval attacks, the fort fell on December 13, 1864, in a 15-minute infantry assault that ended Sherman's March to the Sea.
Roswell, GA
The Public House at 605 South Atlanta Street in Roswell was constructed in 1854 as the commissary for the Roswell Mill. During the Civil War it served as a Union hospital after the July 1864 occupation of Roswell. It later housed the Dunwoody Shoe Shop and a funeral parlor before becoming a restaurant (first as the Peasant in the 1970s and now as The Public House).
Sale City, GA
Shady Grove Cemetery is a small historic burial ground in Mitchell County, Georgia, located along a dirt road outside Sale City. Find a Grave records document approximately 131 memorials at the site.
Smyrna, GA
The Concord Covered Bridge spans Nickajack Creek on Concord Road SW in Cobb County, Georgia. Originally constructed circa 1848, the bridge was burned during the Civil War and rebuilt in 1872 using a Burr-arch truss design. At 131 feet long and 16 feet wide, it remains Georgia's only covered bridge still open to automobile traffic. Cobb County created the Concord Covered Bridge Historic District — the county's first — around the structure in 1986, and the bridge was renovated in 1999.
Stone Mountain, GA
Stone Mountain Park encompasses the quartz monzonite dome of Stone Mountain, one of the largest exposed granite formations in the world, along with a 3,200-acre park with various attractions. Historic Square is a curated collection of original antebellum structures built between 1793 and 1875, each relocated from its original site elsewhere in Georgia and restored on park grounds.
Surrency, GA
Surrency is a small town in Appling County, Georgia, named for the family of Allen Powell Surrency, a sawmill owner whose home became the center of a widely reported series of poltergeist-style disturbances in the 1870s. A separate 'spook light' reported along the nearby railroad tracks from the early 20th century onward became locally linked to that earlier haunting.
Talking Rock, GA
Carver Mill Bridge carries Carver Mill Road over Scarecorn Creek in a remote, wooded part of western Pickens County, Georgia, near Talking Rock. An older wooden bridge that once spanned the creek was replaced decades ago by the modern paved bridge that stands today.
Tallapoosa, GA
Devil's Kitchen is a wooded creek valley off Old Ridgeway Road near Tallapoosa in Haralson County, Georgia. The name is locally said to come from moonshine ('the Devil's water') once made in the creek valley. The adjacent property known as Key's Castle was a grape vineyard in the late 1800s.
Toomsboro, GA
Toomsboro, Georgia, was chartered in 1904 along the Central of Georgia Railroad line connecting Savannah and Macon. The town was named for Robert Augustus Toombs, a U.S. congressman and Confederate Secretary of State. The Willett Hotel, the historic property referenced in haunted-place listings, served traveling salesmen and teachers during the railroad-era boom and is now part of a 40-acre property cluster repeatedly listed for sale.
Tybee Island, GA
Tybee Island Lighthouse is Georgia's oldest and tallest active lighthouse, standing at the mouth of the Savannah River. The first day-mark was constructed in 1736 under Noble Jones of Wormsloe Plantation; the current 154-foot tower combines the lower sixty feet of an 1773 structure with an 1867 upper section. The original first-order Fresnel lens has been in service since 1867.
Valdosta, GA
The Bell House at 500 N Ashley Street in Valdosta, Georgia, was the residence of Dr. David S. Bell, a traveling salesman of patent medicines known for a tonic called Re-Nue-U. The Victorian-era home has subsequently operated as a bed and breakfast, a Cajun restaurant, and most recently as Vito's Pizzeria and Lounge. As of current public records, Vito's is closed.
Waverly Hall, GA
Waverly Hall Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the small Harris County community of Waverly Hall, Georgia, with documented burials dating to 1829. Notable antebellum-era graves include those of Major Osborne Crook (died 1851) and General Henry H. Lowe (died 1854). The cemetery remains an active burial ground serving the community. The town itself sits roughly 30 miles from Columbus along the Chattahoochee River corridor.