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Savannah, Georgia
Originally three separate residences that burned in 1820, the 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant was rebuilt as a single building in 1821 on…
Stockbridge, Georgia
The Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House, built around 1830, is one of the oldest surviving houses in Rockdale County and stands at the…
Acworth, Georgia
On October 5, 1864, roughly 3,200 Confederate troops under General Samuel French attacked the Union garrison holding the Western and…
Dawsonville, Georgia
Amicalola takes its name from the Cherokee word for "tumbling waters," describing the 729-foot waterfall the park was built around. The…
Andersonville, Georgia
Camp Sumter, the Confederacy's largest and most notorious prisoner-of-war camp, operated here from February 1864 to May 1865. Built for…
Andersonville, Georgia
Andersonville National Cemetery was established on July 26, 1865, to receive the dead of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prison where more…
Savannah, Georgia
Cotton merchant Andrew Low built this Italianate mansion on Lafayette Square in 1848; his daughter-in-law Juliette Gordon Low, founder of…
Augusta, Georgia
Sisters Emily and Lucy Galt etched their names and the date, 1861, into a window at Bellevue Hall using Emily's engagement ring before her…
Adairsville, Georgia
English cotton merchant Godfrey Barnsley bought 8,000 acres of former Cherokee land in the 1840s to build this estate, though his wife…
Valdosta, Georgia
Built around the turn of the 20th century, this house is named for Dr. David S. Bell, a traveling medicine man who sold tonics and potions…
Rome, Georgia
Campus legend at Berry College holds that during World War II, a student living in the connecting tower between the East and West Mary…
Birdsville, Georgia
At Birdsville Plantation, visitors and caretakers describe children's laughter at night and doors that open and close on their own.…
Savannah, Georgia
Gracie Watson died of pneumonia in 1889 at age six; her grief-stricken father commissioned sculptor John Walz to carve a life-sized statue…
Grantville, Georgia
Once a bed & breakfast at 2 Post Street, Bonnie Castle has since closed its doors to overnight guests but kept its haunted reputation.…
Gainesville, Georgia
Pearce Auditorium, a 700-seat opera house dedicated in 1897, is home to Brenau University's most famous ghost story: a young woman students…
Roswell, Georgia
Docents and visitors at Bulloch Hall describe lights flickering inside the house after it has closed, figures in Civil War-era clothing at…
McDonough, Georgia
Spirit activity is reported on the McDonough Square, where the bodies of those without identification were laid out for families to claim,…
Savannah, Georgia
At Candler Hospital, visitors and students have long reported cold spots, disembodied voices, and shadowy figures inside, particularly near…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Hikers near the Illinois Monument at Cheatham Hill report hearing marching orders called out and the sound of footsteps from a large body…
Gainesville, Georgia
This Gainesville library opened on North Main Street in 1969, on a site local legend ties to an earlier hotel where a murder may have taken…
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18-20, 1863, was the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War after Gettysburg, with nearly…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
Christ Church on St. Simons Island traces its history to 1736, when John and Charles Wesley preached to the colonists of Frederica, and the…
Savannah, Georgia
Established in 1758 as the burial ground of Christ Church parish, Colonial Park Cemetery served Savannah's dead for nearly a century before…
Dalton, Georgia
The Dalton Little Theatre, a community theater company whose roots go back to the 1800s, has performed since 1981 in the former Dalton…