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Savannah, Georgia
Master builder Isaiah Davenport built this Federal-style home on Columbia Square in 1820; after he died of yellow fever in 1827, his widow…
Tallapoosa, Georgia
Devil's Kitchen, a secluded creek canyon near Key's Castle off Old Ridgeway Road, takes its name either from the moonshine once called "the…
Greensboro, Georgia
Built around 1825 by Joel Early Jr., brother of Georgia Governor Peter Early, Early Hill is a Georgian-style plantation house with later…
Calhoun, Georgia
Before it became El Rayos, this building was a private home, then successively the Place on Piedmont and Rock House Grill restaurants.…
Atlanta, Georgia
Built in Washington County in 1787, the Pope-Walton House was disassembled and rebuilt on three acres in Buckhead in 1967, where it…
Savannah, Georgia
Irish immigrant Honoria Foley built this house in 1896 on land purchased after the Great Savannah Fire of 1889, opening it as one of the…
Savannah, Georgia
Completed in 1847 on Cockspur Island, Fort Pulaski was considered one of the most formidable harbor defenses in the country — until April…
Roswell, Georgia
Founders Cemetery is where the Roswell Ghost Tour ends, and tour guides say significant paranormal activity has been recorded in and around…
Atlanta, Georgia
The Fox Theatre opened in 1929, built as a Shriners' temple before the Great Depression forced its conversion into an ornate movie palace;…
Milledgeville, Georgia
In 1952, Georgia College student Betty Jean Cook, known as "Cookie," died by suicide on the third floor of Samford Hall; rumors that she…
Dahlonega, Georgia
Built in 1836, this building is the oldest surviving courthouse in Georgia; it served as the Lumpkin County Courthouse for over a century…
Roosterville, Georgia
Mayhayley Lancaster (1875-1955) was a real Heard County figure — a lawyer, teacher, midwife, and one of the county's largest landowners —…
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1873 for Samuel Pugh Hamilton, who went on to serve as mayor of Savannah, this 17-room French Empire mansion on Lafayette Square…
Savannah, Georgia
Long considered Savannah's most haunted house, the Hampton Lillibridge House is the only one in the city known to have undergone an…
Savannah, Georgia
This Savannah townhouse was built in 1872. Multiple independent visitor accounts, consistent across Savannah's ghost-tour guides over the…
Hawkinsville, Georgia
Built in 1907 by W.R. Gunn, the Hawkinsville Opera House hosted vaudeville acts, including a young Oliver Hardy, and later served as the…
Macon, Georgia
Built between 1855 and 1859 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, the Hay House earned the nickname "Palace of the South" for its scale…
Madison, Georgia
Built in 1811 and expanded with Greek Revival columns in the 1840s or '50s by Dr. Elijah Jones, a wealthy physician who enslaved 114 people…
Tunnel Hill, Georgia
The Western and Atlantic Railroad tunnel at Tunnel Hill was completed in 1850 through Chetoogeta Mountain, a 1,447-foot bore that was the…
Brunswick, Georgia
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, between Brunswick and Darien, is the last surviving rice plantation of coastal Georgia and is run today as a…
Fayetteville, Georgia
Built in 1855 by Dr. John Stiles Holliday, uncle of the famous gunfighter Doc Holliday, this Greek Revival house served as his medical…
Dahlonega, Georgia
Built by Randall Holly Brannon, the Holly Theatre opened on July 12, 1948, with a Georgia-marble facade and seating for 500; it closed in…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
In May 1803, roughly 75 captive Igbo people, purchased in Savannah by agents for planters John Couper and Thomas Spalding, were being…
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Jekyll Island's own version of "Mary the Wanderer" is a distinct legend from the similarly-named ghost story told on nearby St. Simons…