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Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1819 by British architect William Jay for cotton merchant Richard Richardson, the house later passed to the Owens family,…
Eatonton, Georgia
Henry and Elizabeth Perry Tripp built Panola Hall, one of Georgia's finest Greek Revival landmarks, in 1854. Local legend holds that…
Augusta, Georgia
The Partridge Inn, established in the late 1800s around a house built in 1836, is Georgia's first hotel listed with Historic Hotels of…
Pearson, Georgia
The Pearson Light is one of several documented "spooklight" legends found along rural railroad routes across southern Georgia, in the same…
Augusta, Georgia
Pendleton King Park sits on the former Bugg Plantation, purchased before 1842 by Judge John P. King and donated to the city of Augusta by…
Dallas, Georgia
At Pickett's Mill, visitors and staff report gunfire and voices carrying across the field at dusk, and figures glimpsed moving between the…
Demorest, Georgia
Built in 1942, Getman-Babcock is Piedmont University's oldest dormitory. Generations of students have reported an orange, human-shaped…
Savannah, Georgia
Operating since the 1750s, The Pirates' House began as a pub serving sailors near the Savannah waterfront, and tunnels dug beneath the…
Roswell, Georgia
Established in 1841 behind Roswell Presbyterian Church, this cemetery holds many of the town's most prominent early citizens, including…
Waleska, Georgia
Founded in 1883 as a Methodist school in Waleska, Reinhardt University's oldest surviving dormitory, Paul Jones Hall, carries a persistent…
Atlanta, Georgia
Furniture magnate Amos Rhodes, whose business later grew into Rooms To Go, built this Romanesque Revival "castle" on Peachtree Street in…
Macon, Georgia
Visitors at Rose Hill Cemetery have long reported seeing Civil War soldiers still dressed for battle wandering the hillsides at night and…
Roswell, Georgia
In July 1864, during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, Union troops occupied Roswell and its cotton and woolen mills, which had been producing…
Dawsonville, Georgia
Salem Church, standing since the 1800s off Salem Church Road near Kelly Bridge Road, has circulated as one of the Dawsonville area's…
Savannah, Georgia
Once a hotel, Weston House at 231 West Boundary Street became a Savannah College of Art and Design dormitory, standing in an area where…
Savannah, Georgia
Florence Martus, daughter of an ordnance sergeant stationed at Fort Pulaski, spent 44 years greeting nearly every ship that entered or left…
Savannah, Georgia
The Savannah Theatre opened on December 4, 1818, on what is now Chippewa Square, and has operated in some form ever since — making it one…
Atlanta, Georgia
During a 1993 production of Henry IV, Part I at this Elizabethan-style playhouse, the actor playing Falstaff came rushing out of the men's…
Austell, Georgia
The Crystal Pistol Music Hall, a 1,000-seat theater built as a replica of Atlanta's 1855 Atheneum Theatre, opened with Six Flags Over…
Savannah, Georgia
Designed by architect Charles Cluskey and built between 1838 and 1840 for shipping merchant Francis Sorrel, this house is one of Savannah's…
Valdosta, Georgia
Built around 1920 as part of the old Quitman Highway spanning the Withlacoochee River on the Lowndes-Brooks county line, this bridge was…
Columbus, Georgia
The Springer Opera House opened February 21, 1871, and over the following decades hosted Edwin Booth, Oscar Wilde, Tom Thumb, Booker T.…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
St. Simons Island Lighthouse, first lit in 1810 and rebuilt after the Civil War, is best known for the ghost of its head keeper Frederick…
Stone Mountain, Georgia
The Stillwell House on Ridge Avenue in Stone Mountain Village, circa 1820, is believed to be one of the oldest buildings in the village. It…