Kennesaw House

Built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse and converted into the Fletcher House hotel in 1855, this building beside the Western and Atlantic Railroad is where Union raider James J. Andrews and his men spent the night before stealing the locomotive General and setting off the Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862. Union forces occupied the building in 1864, and Sherman briefly used it as a headquarters; most of its haunted reputation traces to its use as a makeshift Civil War hospital and morgue. Now home to the Marietta Museum of History, the building has been featured on PBS, CNN, and The History Channel for reports of visitors descending to the basement and encountering what looks and sounds like a crowded Civil War hospital ward, and for an apparition of a uniformed surgeon who reportedly likes to ride the elevator.