194 haunted destinations cataloged across Georgia, spanning 68 counties. The collection features museum, cemetery, and haunted house — 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.
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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.
Augusta, GA
Built in 1835 for the Medical College of Georgia and designed by architect Charles Blaney Cluskey in the Greek Revival style, the building served as the state's primary medical school until 1913. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996.
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 October 16, 1827, at age 42. 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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
The building at 301 W Jones St was erected around 1900 and housed the Gerken Family Grocery Store, operated by Julius Weitz and his family, who lived in an apartment upstairs. In the early 1930s William 'Blocko' Manning and his wife Connie took over, opening one of the first American establishments to serve alcohol legally after Prohibition's repeal. The restaurant became a fixture of Savannah's Jones Street neighborhood and the oldest continuously operating eating establishment in the city. John Nichols purchased it in 2009.
Savannah, GA
The building at 225 E Bay Street was constructed in 1852 as a cotton warehouse in Savannah's commercial district, one block from the waterfront. Over the following decades it served multiple commercial tenants, including foreign consul offices, a grocery warehouse, and the Columbia Drug Company, which occupied the building in the 1920s. After sitting vacant for two decades, the structure was renovated and reopened as the East Bay Inn.
Savannah, GA
The Forsyth Park Inn was built in 1893 as a Queen Anne Victorian mansion for Captain Aaron Flint 'Rudder' Churchill, a Nova Scotia-born sea captain who founded the Churchill Steamship Line. The property transitioned through several uses — including a boarding house and apartment building — before being converted to a bed and breakfast in the 1980s. The Harrison Family purchased and has operated the inn since 2016.
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
Graveface Museum opened in 2020 on Savannah's historic Factors Walk, founded by Ryan Graveface — a musician and record label owner who built the collection over decades. The museum holds over 30,000 Gacy items including hundreds of original paintings, making it the largest documented collection of his work. It also holds the most extensive public display of Ed Gein artifacts.
Savannah, GA
Designed by New York architect John Norris and built in 1850 for British cotton merchant Charles Green at a cost of approximately $90,000, the Green-Meldrim House is a Gothic Revival National Historic Landmark on Madison Square. It served as General William T. Sherman's Savannah headquarters from December 1864 through January 1865, from which he sent his famous telegram presenting Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift. Judge Peter Meldrim purchased it in 1892; St. John's Episcopal Church acquired it in 1943 and uses it as a Parish House today.
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
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
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
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
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
The Old Chatham County Jail was built in 1887 at 235 Habersham Street in Savannah and operated until 1978, housing 117 five-by-ten-foot cells at a peak capacity of 381 inmates. A 1898 fire destroyed the original Byzantine dome, which was replaced with the surviving 106-foot Moorish Revival turret. In 1989, the property was donated to the Savannah College of Art and Design, which restored the jailer's residence and tower and renamed the structure Habersham Hall.
Savannah, GA
Old Fort Jackson is Georgia's oldest standing brick fortification. Construction began in 1808 on the site of a Revolutionary War earthwork battery built in 1779 on the Savannah River. Garrisoned through both the Civil War and World War I, it was acquired by the Coastal Heritage Society in the 1970s and opened as a museum. In the early 1800s, Private Patrick Garrity murdered Lieutenant George Dickerson on the grounds.
Savannah, GA
The property at 508 E Factors Walk began as a warehouse adjacent to the Savannah River, used for cotton storage from approximately 1812. Between 1888 and 1889, the original structure was demolished and replaced by a new three-story building erected for the Tide Water Oil Company by contractor Dennis J. Murphy. A fire broke out on January 3, 1892, destroying the building; the Tide Water Oil Company rebuilt immediately using over 730,000 fire-resistant bricks. The rebuilt structure housed oil operations until 1907, then sat largely vacant before being taken over by the Alexander Brothers Company (garment manufacturing) in 1930. Major renovation in 1985–1987 converted the building to a boutique hotel.
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 served as Union headquarters during Sherman's occupation of Savannah in 1864, 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
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
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.
Savannah, GA
The original Hotel DeSoto opened in 1890 as a 300-room resort designed by Boston architect William G. Preston—one of Savannah's grandest establishments, earning the nickname 'Empress of the South.' After 75 years, the original was demolished and the current building opened in 1968. A 2017 renovation returned the property to its Historic Hotels of America designation.
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.
Macon, GA
The 1842 Inn was built for John Gresham, who served as mayor of Macon, Georgia, in the mid-19th century. The Greek Revival structure at 353 College St stands in Macon's Intown historic district and has operated as a bed-and-breakfast for decades, maintaining its antebellum character.
Macon, GA
The Burke Mansion at 925 Bond St was built in 1887 in Macon's College Hill historic district, one of the city's best-preserved concentrations of Victorian-era residential architecture. The structure sits in a neighborhood that developed in the decades after the Civil War as Macon's economic recovery supported new residential construction. The mansion's specific early history and the family for whom it was built are not fully documented in available sources.
Macon, GA
The Cannonball House was built in 1853 for Judge Asa Holt, a prominent Macon attorney, as a Greek Revival townhouse on Mulberry Street. On July 30, 1864, during a Union artillery bombardment of Macon by forces under General George Stoneman, an artillery shell struck the home's front columns and came to rest inside without detonating. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as a museum of antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction history.
Macon, GA
Charles Henry Douglass opened the Douglass Theatre on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in 1921, establishing it as the primary entertainment venue for Macon's African American community during the era of legal segregation. The theater hosted Otis Redding, Little Richard, and James Brown, among others, and became a cornerstone of Macon's Black cultural life. It fell into disuse and disrepair before a community-led restoration returned it to operation in 1997.
Macon, GA
Established in 1806 by the U.S. Army following a land cession negotiated by Indian Affairs Agent Benjamin Hawkins, Fort Hawkins served as a military trading post and supply depot at the edge of Creek Nation territory. It sat at the intersection of the Federal Road — the major Washington-to-New-Orleans route — and the Ocmulgee River, making it a strategic node during the Creek War of 1813–14 and the broader War of 1812. The fort was decommissioned in 1822. A Works Progress Administration reconstruction of the southeastern blockhouse was completed in 1938 and 1939; the fort museum opened in 1966.
Macon, GA
The Grand Opera House opened in 1884 as the Academy of Music, designed by architects Alexander Blair and W.R. Gunn in a Gothic style. With original seating for 2,418 people—approximately one-fifth of Macon's 1884 population—it was one of the largest theaters in the Deep South at opening. Renovated and renamed in 1905, it hosted Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Bernhardt, Will Rogers, Harry Houdini, and the Allman Brothers Band over its 140-plus years of continuous operation. Mercer University has managed the facility since 1995.
Macon, GA
Built between 1855 and 1859 for businessman William Butler Johnston at a cost of approximately $100,000, the Italian Renaissance Revival mansion at 934 Georgia Avenue has been called the 'Palace of the South' and is a National Historic Landmark. The Felton family held it through the Civil War period; Confederate general Henry Gray Felton occupied it during the war. The Hay family acquired the house in 1926 and donated it to The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1977.
Macon, GA
Anjette Donovan Lyles operated Anjette's Restaurant at 524 Mulberry Street in Macon, serving the city's business community throughout the 1950s. Between 1952 and 1958 she poisoned four family members with arsenic — two husbands, a mother-in-law, and her daughter Marcia, age nine. Her 1958 trial was called the most publicized criminal case in 20th-century Macon.
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.
Macon, GA
The building at 484 2nd St in downtown Macon dates to the 19th century and served as a carriage repair shop and later a bicycle and cycle retailer before various commercial uses through the 20th century. Ocmulgee Brewpub opened there in 2016, occupying the renovated ground-floor space and bringing a brewery and restaurant operation to the historic downtown building.
Macon, GA
Riverside Cemetery was established in 1887 on the bluffs above the Ocmulgee River in Macon, Georgia. The 110-acre grounds contain family plots dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the graves of prominent Macon families, Civil War veterans, and citizens from across Bibb County's history. The cemetery remains an active burial ground operated by a private association.
Macon, GA
Rose Hill Cemetery was established in 1840 on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in Macon, designed as a Victorian garden cemetery by a committee led by horticulturist Simri Rose. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and contains Confederate Soldiers' Square, an enslaved persons' section (Oak Ridge), and the Woolfolk family plot.
Macon, GA
On August 6, 1887, Thomas G. Woolfolk murdered nine members of his family with an axe in their farmhouse twelve miles west of Macon, Georgia—making it the state's first recorded mass murder and predating the Lizzie Borden killings by five years.
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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.
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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.
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
Built 1920–1922 by Asa Griggs Candler Jr. (son of Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler), the 42-acre estate included a private zoo of tigers, lions, a gorilla, baboons, and six elephants. After financial difficulties, Candler donated the animals to Grant Park Zoo in 1935. The state of Georgia purchased the property in 1948 and opened the Georgian Clinic—the state's first alcohol treatment facility—in 1953. The Georgia Mental Health Institute took over the campus in 1965 and operated there until 1997, when Emory University purchased the property.
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 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 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.
Augusta, GA
The Summerville Campus of Augusta University began as a United States Arsenal established in the 1820s on a hill above Augusta. Bellevue Hall and Benet House survive from that period. The campus passed to Augusta's educational institutions in the post-Civil War decades and has operated as a university campus since the early 20th century.
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Established in the early 19th century, Cedar Grove is one of Augusta's oldest African American cemeteries, spanning roughly 40 acres. From the 1850s into the 1880s, Grandison Harris repeatedly exhumed bodies here on behalf of the Medical College of Georgia. In 1998, bone fragments recovered from the college's basement were reinterred here with a memorial marker.
Augusta, GA
Ezekiel Harris built this three-story Federal-style house in 1797 in what was then the competing tobacco town of Harrisburg. Described by the Smithsonian's Guide to Historic America as 'the finest eighteenth-century house surviving in Georgia,' it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1964.
Augusta, GA
Nicholas Ware, a former Augusta mayor who later served in the U.S. Senate, commissioned this Federal-style mansion at 506 Telfair Street in 1818 at a cost of $40,000—approximately $12 million in current terms—earning it the nickname 'Ware's Folly' for its extravagance. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 (reference #73000641). The building has housed the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art since 1937, when it was founded as the Augusta Art Club by Olivia Herbert; it was later renamed in memory of Herbert's daughter Gertrude Herbert Dunn.
Augusta, GA
The Imperial Theatre opened on February 18, 1918, on Augusta's Broad Street as a vaudeville and silent film house. Within months of opening, the 1918 influenza pandemic reached Augusta; the city implemented a quarantine that closed public assembly spaces including the theater. Records indicate 52 servicemen from a nearby military installation died during the outbreak.
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Founded in 1818, Magnolia Cemetery is Augusta's oldest established burial ground. It served as the principal cemetery for the city through the antebellum and Civil War periods, accumulating an unusually high concentration of notable burials — including seven Confederate generals — on its roughly 5 acres along 3rd Street.
Augusta, GA
Built in 1835 for Augusta merchant John Phinizy, the Federal-style mansion at 519 Greene Street changed hands multiple times before a significant chapter as a funeral home from 1933 to 1938. It subsequently operated as an Elks Lodge and later became a private event venue known as the Marion Hatcher Center.
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.
Augusta, GA
Sibley Mill was built along the Augusta Canal between 1880 and 1882, designed by architect Jones S. Davis as a 528-foot, three-story cotton textile mill. It was constructed in part with half a million bricks salvaged from the demolished Confederate Powder Works refinery building that had previously occupied the site. Named for Augusta cotton broker Josiah Sibley, the mill operated as a textile manufacturing facility until 2006 and is now leased for commercial use.
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Cedar Lane Cemetery is the designated patient burial ground for Central State Hospital, which at its peak in the mid-twentieth century held more than 12,000 people and was the largest psychiatric institution in the world. Approximately 2,000 iron numbered markers stand at Cedar Lane, but hospital records indicate an estimated 25,000 patients are buried across the broader campus — most without identifying markers.
Milledgeville, GA
Chartered in 1837 and opened in 1842 as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, Central State Hospital grew across more than a century into the world's largest mental institution, housing over 13,000 patients at peak and spanning 2,000 acres with 200 buildings. An estimated 25,000 patients are buried in Cedar Lane Cemetery, most without named markers after inmates on groundskeeping detail discarded the numbered identifiers in the 1960s to simplify mowing.
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.
Milledgeville, GA
Built in 1852 on land purchased in 1851 by wealthy plantation owner Daniel Reece Tucker, Rose Hill — now Lockerly Hall — has had an unsettled history: Tucker rebuilt the house after the original burned three weeks after purchase, and the home saw the deaths of Tucker (1879), his wife Martha, his daughter Emma Tucker Sibley, and her husband George.
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Memory Hill Cemetery, established in the early 1800s, is the primary historic burial ground of Milledgeville, Georgia's antebellum state capital. Its grounds hold governors, legislators, authors, and entertainers across more than two centuries of Baldwin County history.
Milledgeville, GA
The Old Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville was completed in 1839 as Georgia's first purpose-built executive residence, designed by architect Charles B. Cluskey in the Greek Revival style. It served as the governor's official home through 1868, when the state capital moved to Atlanta. During the Civil War, General William T. Sherman's forces occupied the mansion in November 1864 during the March to the Sea, and the building was looted. It is now operated as a museum by Georgia College and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Milledgeville, GA
Completed in 1807 and expanded through the 1830s, the Old State Capitol in Milledgeville is among the oldest Gothic Revival public buildings in the United States. Georgia's Secession Convention met here on January 19, 1861, and Union General Sherman's forces occupied the building in November 1864 before staging a mock legislative session.
Milledgeville, GA
The Walker-Breedlove-Scott-Tate-Thompson house was built around 1828 at 201 N. Jefferson Street in Milledgeville, the former state capital of Georgia. Sam Walker, a former mayor of Milledgeville with a documented reputation for cruelty, purchased the property in 1870. In 1873, Walker's son Joe returned home ill during a meningitis outbreak; Walker refused to summon a doctor for three days, after which Joe collapsed on the staircase and died. That same week, Walker's wife Molly and her niece Alice Dillard also died of meningitis in the house.
Milledgeville, GA
The Homestead was built in 1818 by Peter Jones Williams in Milledgeville, Georgia's antebellum capital. The Williams family occupied the home for nearly 150 years, and the house remained in family hands until the 1960s.
LaGrange, GA
Hillview Cemetery in LaGrange is Troup County's primary civic burial ground, used for community burials since the city's development in the nineteenth century. The Troup County Archives — now operating as the Troup County Archives & Legacy Museum — has organized historical cemetery tours under the 'Mystery in Our History' program as part of its public history mission.
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Hillview Cemetery is LaGrange's historic main city cemetery, established in the decades following the city's incorporation in 1828. It holds the graves of notable Troup County residents spanning two centuries and serves as the terminus stop of the Strange LaGrange ghost walking tour.
LaGrange, GA
The building at 112 Lafayette Parkway in LaGrange was designed and built in 1892 by the Pauly Jail Building Company of St. Louis as the Troup County Jail, at a contract cost of $13,500. The structure contained a jailer's residence, a racially segregated cellblock, and an execution area. Five men were hanged inside between 1901 and 1918. In 1939 the building was converted to a newspaper office; it subsequently served as a furniture store before the Callaway Foundation donated it to the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association in 1978, which established the LaGrange Art Museum.
LaGrange, GA
The building at 136 Main Street in LaGrange was constructed in 1917 as the LaGrange National Banking Co. It later became the home of the Troup County Archives and the Legacy Museum on Main, which documents the history of Troup County and the surrounding region.
LaGrange, GA
On December 24, 1896, Claude Dunson was shot and killed by Douglas Cooper at this corner in downtown LaGrange, Georgia. The dispute began over a bent dime — a trivial sum that escalated to fatal violence in the public square. The incident was documented in contemporary local accounts and is now a named stop on the Strange LaGrange ghost walking tour.
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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.
LaGrange, GA
Smith Hall is the oldest building on LaGrange College's campus, constructed in 1860 from handmade bricks of local clay. From November 1863 to June 1864, the Confederate government seized it as a military hospital for soldiers wounded in nearby engagements. During that period, at least one Confederate soldier — John Griffen — is documented in college tradition to have died in the building after riding 35 miles wounded from the Battle of Brown's Mill to reach his sister, who was a student at the college.
LaGrange, GA
Strange LaGrange is a ticketed Friday evening ghost and history walking tour produced by the Troup County Historical Society and led by local docent Lewis Powell. The tour has operated seasonally on fall Friday nights, covering downtown LaGrange murder sites, the former county jail, City Hall, and Hillview Cemetery, blending documented local history with paranormal tradition.
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Whitesville Road's third bridge is a Columbus-area crybaby bridge — a class of roadside legend sites where an infant death near a water crossing anchors local oral tradition. The GhostVillage account documents an EVP captured here on August 1, 2002.
Columbus, GA
Linwood Cemetery was established in 1828 — four months before the city of Columbus itself was formally incorporated — making it one of the oldest planned cemeteries in Georgia. Its 28.7 acres hold 14,000 to 18,000 graves including John Stith Pemberton, the pharmacist who created the Coca-Cola formula; Confederate General Henry Benning; and Georgia Governor James Johnson.
Columbus, GA
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey (April 26, 1886–December 22, 1939) was born in Columbus, Georgia and became one of the most influential figures in early American blues music, later known as the 'Mother of the Blues.' After retiring from performance in 1935, she returned to Columbus and settled into a two-story shotgun house at 805 Fifth Avenue, where she lived until her death from heart failure on December 22, 1939, at age 53. The Columbus Parks and Recreation Department opened a museum in the restored house in 2007.
Columbus, GA
The National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus preserves a major collection of Confederate naval artifacts, including the hull of the CSS Chattahoochee — a gunboat whose boiler explosion on May 27, 1863 scalded 16 crew members to death and disabled the vessel for the remainder of the war.
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.
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The Battle of Brown's Mill was fought July 30, 1864, three miles south of Newnan, during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate cavalry under Gen. Joseph Wheeler defeated a Union force under Gen. Edward McCook at approximately 3:1 odds, ending the Union's last major cavalry raid before the Siege of Atlanta.
Newnan, GA
The Coweta County Courthouse in Newnan, Georgia, was the setting for the 1948 murder trial of John Wallace, a prominent land owner convicted of killing his sharecropper Wilson Turner. The prosecution's most unusual witness was Mayhayley Lancaster, a self-described oracle from Heard County who had unwittingly provided evidence against the defendant.
Newnan, GA
The McRitchie-Hollis Museum is a 1937 Queen Anne–influenced Neoclassical home at 74 Jackson Street in Newnan, operated by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society as a house museum and event venue.
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.
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Established in 1833, Oak Hill Cemetery in Newnan is Coweta County's principal burial ground, covering 60 acres with more than 12,000 graves. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in January 2012.
Andersonville, GA
Camp Sumter, the largest Confederate prisoner-of-war prison of the Civil War, operated from February 1864 to April 1865. At its peak in August 1864, more than 33,000 Union soldiers were held on 26 acres. Of the approximately 45,000 men imprisoned there, nearly 13,000 died — primarily from dysentery, scurvy, and exposure — a mortality rate of roughly 29%.
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.
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Mount Hope Cemetery on Wimpy Mill Road is among the earliest surviving burial grounds in Lumpkin County, established in 1833 during the era of the Georgia Gold Rush. The cemetery contains the graves of early Dahlonega settlers and veterans of the Civil War and earlier conflicts. It is a separate parcel from the better-documented downtown Mt. Hope Cemetery property.
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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.
Dalton, GA
Dalton Little Theatre traces its founding to 1869, making it Georgia's oldest continuously performing community theater. It operates out of the original Fire Hall No. 1, a downtown Dalton building where, in the 1950s, fireman Carl Johnson died of a heart attack while resting between calls. The death preceded decades of unexplained staff reports.
Dalton, GA
The Landmark Building, originally constructed in 1890, burned in 1911 and was rebuilt as Hotel Dalton in 1923. It operated as a hotel and commercial anchor in downtown Dalton through much of the twentieth century. In the late 1960s a young woman working in the building died on the third floor, a loss that has become central to its haunting reputation.
Dalton, GA
Built in 1882 as a wedding gift by the Reverend David P. Bass, second president of Crown Cotton Mill, the Thomas A. Berry House is one of Dalton's surviving Victorian mansions. Bass constructed the home for family use at a moment when Dalton's textile industry was transforming the town's economy. It now operates as the Carter Hope Center.
Dalton, GA
Built in 1852 in the Greek Revival style, the Western and Atlantic Depot is the oldest surviving commercial structure in Dalton, Georgia. It served as a critical Confederate troop depot during the Civil War, including the defense operations around the Battle of Dalton in 1864.
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Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, Georgia is the burial ground for General James Longstreet and for many of the 203 people killed in the April 6, 1936 tornado — one of the deadliest in U.S. history. A section of the cemetery contains mass graves of unidentified tornado victims. The cemetery also holds those connected to the 1958 disappearance of four women known locally as the 'Ladies of the Lake.'
Gainesville, GA
Pearce Auditorium at Brenau University dates to 1878, making it one of the older surviving performance venues in northeast Georgia. The university itself was established in 1878 as a women's institution and has remained a women's college at its undergraduate level. The auditorium has been an active venue for university performances throughout its history.
Gainesville, GA
The Hall County Library System's main branch at 127 Main Street SW in Gainesville occupies the site of the former Wheeler Hotel, a downtown landmark, and an antebellum Brown Family Cemetery whose remains were relocated to Alta Vista Cemetery in the 1920s before construction. Staff began reporting unusual activity attributed to a figure they named 'Miss Elizabeth' — eventually enlisting paranormal investigators to document the phenomena.
Gainesville, GA
General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's second-in-command during the Civil War, opened the Piedmont Hotel in Gainesville in 1876 and operated it until his death in 1904. After the war, Longstreet moved to Gainesville, converted to Republicanism, and worked as a federal officer — choices that made him a controversial figure in the post-war South. The building now houses the Longstreet Society's museum.
Americus, GA
Founded in 1856 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Oak Grove Cemetery is the principal historic burial ground of Americus, Georgia. Its grounds hold over 3,000 graves including 129 Confederate soldiers relocated from Andersonville National Cemetery in 1880, a U.S. senator, and the city's first sheriff, John Kimmey, who was killed in an 1839 election-day brawl.
Americus, GA
The Rylander Theatre opened in 1921, designed by New York architect C.K. Howell for Americus businessman Walter Rylander. The 874-seat ornate house closed in 1951 and stood dormant for nearly five decades before a community restoration effort reopened it in 1999.
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.
Rome, GA
Berry College was founded by Martha Berry in 1902 on land in northwest Georgia where she had spent much of her life. Oak Hill, the family estate on campus, served as her home until her death in 1942 and is now operated as a museum. The Ford Complex, built with significant support from Henry Ford in the 1920s and 1930s, forms the architectural heart of the campus.
Rome, GA
Myrtle Hill Cemetery was established in 1857 on one of Rome, Georgia's seven hills. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it holds more than 20,000 burials, including Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States; 377 Civil War soldiers; and Romulus, the city's founding figure. The Greater Rome CVB has operated annual 'Where Romans Rest' cemetery tours there for decades.
Rome, GA
The Rome Area History Museum occupies a historic building on Broad Street in downtown Rome, preserving the documentary and material history of Floyd County. Multiple staff members have reported unusual phenomena concentrated near the building's staircase, and the museum has been incorporated into Rome's ghost tour programming by the city's convention and visitors bureau.
Roswell, GA
Major James Stephens Bulloch built this Greek Revival mansion in 1839 as one of Roswell's founding structures. Martha Bulloch (Mittie) grew up here and married Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in the double parlors in December 1853; their son became the 26th President of the United States. The property is now a City of Roswell museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Roswell, GA
The Roswell Manufacturing Company began textile operations along Vickery Creek in the late 1830s, producing cotton and woolen goods that were converted to Confederate military supplies during the Civil War. On July 5–6, 1864, Union forces under General William T. Sherman burned the mills and arrested approximately 400 workers—mostly women and children—charging them as traitors for manufacturing Confederate cloth. The workers were loaded onto boxcars and shipped north, many to Louisville and Indiana. The New Georgia Encyclopedia concludes that 'there is little evidence that more than a few of the women ever returned home.'
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).
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.
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.
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.
Washington, GA
The Fitzpatrick Hotel was built in 1898 following a fire that destroyed the west block of Washington, Georgia's town square. It operated as the town's principal hotel through the mid-20th century, closing around 1952 before a restoration effort in 2004 returned it to operation. The building sits on ground that local oral tradition identifies as an 18th-century cemetery site.
Washington, GA
On May 30, 1806, Mary 'Polly' Barclay was publicly hanged from a white oak tree on the north side of what is now Robert Toombs Avenue in Washington, Georgia. She was convicted as an accessory in the murder of her husband; historical sources identify her as the first white woman executed in the state of Georgia. Her alleged co-conspirator — her lover, who was said to have fled before trial — was never punished.
Washington, GA
Robert Toombs purchased the property in 1837 and developed it into the home he occupied for most of his adult life. Toombs served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia and as Confederate Secretary of State before becoming the most prominent unrepentant Confederate in post-Civil War America, dying in 1885 without ever taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. The house is a Georgia State Parks museum and National Historic Landmark.
Albany, GA
Built in 1858 and designed by Horace King—a formerly enslaved man who became one of the South's most accomplished bridge engineers—the Bridge House served Confederate meat-packing operations in its cellars during the Civil War and housed KKK meetings in its second-floor Tift Hall theater.
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The Flint River banks near Albany's former fairgrounds have carried documented ghost legends since at least 1888, when local newspapers recorded boatman Dink Melvin's accounts of a large headless white horse appearing repeatedly along the water. The 1925 flood death of a church choir added a second tradition that resurfaced during the catastrophic 1994 flood.
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.
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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.
Eatonton, GA
Panola Hall was built in 1854 by James M. Broadfield for Henry Trippe at 400 North Madison Avenue in Eatonton, Putnam County. In 1891, Benjamin Hunt — a banker and dairyman — purchased the property and added Victorian features while restoring the structure. The Greek Revival design, with four fluted Doric columns and a heavy parapet, made it one of the most prominent antebellum homes in central Georgia.
Eatonton, GA
Panola Hall was built in 1854 for Henry Trippe as a Greek Revival mansion at 271 N. Madison Avenue in Eatonton, Putnam County. In 1891, Dr. Benjamin Hunt purchased the property following his marriage to Louisa Prudden of Eatonton, and the family made Victorian-era modifications to the structure. The property is among the most distinctive antebellum homes in central Georgia and has been a fixture of Eatonton's historic district since the Civil War era.
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.
Hawkinsville, GA
Designed by Macon theater architect W.R. Gunn and completed in 1907, the Hawkinsville Opera House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1973. With 576 seats, it held the largest public seating capacity in Pulaski County and remains an actively operated community theater owned by the citizens of Hawkinsville.
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.
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.
Lawrenceville, GA
The Gwinnett County Jail at 185 W Pike Street was built in 1832 near the courthouse square and served as the county lockup until 1940. On November 10, 1848, an enslaved man named Elleck was held here and hanged for killing his enslaver, Colonel James Austin, in circumstances that contemporary records describe as self-defense. Elleck reported to the sheriff voluntarily the morning after Austin's death. He was convicted in what Georgia Public Broadcasting's 2018 account describes as 'one of only two trials of an enslaved man in Gwinnett County history.'
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.
Madison, GA
Heritage Hall was built in 1811 and expanded in the 1840s–50s by Dr. Elijah Jones, a physician who held title to approximately 3,000 acres and 114 enslaved people. The Morgan County Historical Society now operates it as a museum. At least four documented deaths occurred within the house, the most noted being Virginia Nisbet's death in childbirth in the master bedroom in 1851.
Madison, GA
Constructed in 1887 as Madison's first firehouse, the building served the town's fire department for decades before its conversion into the official Madison Welcome Center. It sits at 285 S Main St, one address south of Heritage Hall.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSautee 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.
Valdosta, GA
The Tift Theatre is a historic movie theater in downtown Valdosta, Georgia, built during the era of ornate South Georgia cinema palaces. Regional newspaper coverage from 2017 documents both the building's history and its reputation for unexplained activity.
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.
Adairsville, GA
Godfrey Barnsley, an English cotton merchant based in Savannah, built the Woodlands Manor at this Bartow County site beginning in 1844 — partially as a romantic gesture for his ailing wife Julia, who died before the house was completed. A Confederate skirmish on the property in 1864 left Col. Robert Earle dead on the grounds. A 1906 tornado caused extensive damage, and in 1935 Preston Barnsley shot and killed his brother Harry in the front room of the manor. The ruins became a resort in the late 20th century.
Ashburn, GA
The Turner County Jail was built in 1906 as a combined sheriff's residence and county jail in Ashburn, Georgia. The Victorian castle-style structure served as an active correctional facility for 87 years, closing in 1993. It features an original intact execution chamber with a surviving hangman's trapdoor through which condemned prisoners fell directly into the room below. Miles Cribb was hanged here in 1914. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and now operates as the Crime and Punishment Museum.
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.
Brunswick, GA
The Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation was established in the early 1800s by William Brailsford along the Altamaha River, producing rice through the labor of enslaved people on a flood-controlled tidal system. The property passed through several generations of the Troup and Dent families. Ophelia Troup Dent, the last heir, donated it to the state of Georgia in 1973. It is now a Georgia State Parks Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (reference #76000635).
Cartersville, GA
On October 5, 1864, Confederate General Samuel French attacked a Union garrison at Allatoona Pass in an attempt to destroy the Western & Atlantic Railroad supply line supporting Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. In approximately eight hours of combat, roughly 1,600 of the 5,000 engaged soldiers became casualties — a casualty rate of about 32 percent. Georgia State Parks manages the site, calling it one of the most pristine Civil War battlefields in the nation.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPColquitt, 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.
Covington, GA
The Old Newton County Jail was built in 1901 by the Pauly Jail Building & Manufacturing Co. on the grounds of a former family property in the Covington Historic District. It held Newton County prisoners until 1983 and later housed the Sheriff's Criminal Investigations Division. The building was also used as a filming location for the TV series In the Heat of the Night during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Restoration efforts to convert it into a history museum were announced in 2017.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPLovejoy, 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.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPMcDonough, GA
On June 23, 1900, the northbound Southern Railway Train No. 7 departed McDonough for Atlanta in the midst of a weeks-long flood. Seven miles north of town, Camp Creek's trestle had washed out minutes before the train arrived. Engineer J.T. Sullivan, reportedly filling in for the regularly scheduled engineer whose daughter had fallen ill with pneumonia, said before departure 'We will either be eating breakfast in Atlanta or in hell.' The train plunged into the swollen creek; 35–39 of approximately 45–48 aboard perished (contemporary reports cited 35; the 2013 historical marker lists 39), making it the deadliest rail disaster in Georgia history. Ten survivors—all in the rear Pullman car—were pulled from the wreckage. A historical marker was erected by the City of McDonough in 2013.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPNewton, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPerry, GA
Evergreen Cemetery in Perry, Georgia, grew from the burial ground surrounding a Methodist church built on this site in 1827, shortly after Perry's 1824 incorporation. The cemetery now spans 12.3 acres with 1,892 marked graves and 290 unmarked graves, including more than 130 Confederate veterans and the earliest Houston County settlers.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSale 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSmyrna, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSurrency, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPTalking 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPTallapoosa, 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.
Thomasville, GA
The Lapham-Patterson House was built in 1884–85 by Chicago shoe manufacturer Charles W. Lapham, a survivor of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire who designed the asymmetrical Victorian structure with approximately 50 exits and no two rooms alike, reflecting his documented fire-escape anxiety. It is a National Historic Landmark.
Thomson, GA
Built in 1786 by Quaker settler Thomas Ansley, the Rock House is Georgia's oldest documented stone structure and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property has documented ties to the family ancestry of President Jimmy Carter.
Tifton, GA
Established in 1976 as Georgia's official state museum of agriculture, the Agrirama preserves 35+ authentic structures relocated from across South Georgia and reassembled on a 95-acre site in Tifton. The museum documents the daily rhythms of rural Georgia life from the Reconstruction era through the early twentieth century.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPToomsboro, 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.
Warm Springs, GA
Hotel Warm Springs, originally named the Hotel Tuscawilla after a local Creek legend, opened in 1907 on Broad Street in what was then Bullochville, Georgia. On September 9, 1915, proprietor G.A. Thompson and guest Sam Bulloch shot each other in the hotel dining room; both men died of their wounds. The building has operated continuously as a hotel and later a bed-and-breakfast, and is currently run by Gerrie Thompson.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWaverly 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.