Haunted Places in Augusta, GA

Explore 6 haunted places in Augusta, GA — haunted houses, landmarks, cemeteries and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Ezekiel Harris HouseHouse · Augusta, GATobacco merchant Ezekiel Harris raised this Federal-style house above Augusta in 1797, and for generations it was mistaken for the old Mackay Trading Post, where legend says thirteen captured Patriots were hanged from the staircase during the Revolution's first siege of Augusta.
• Haunted Pillar (Cursed Pillar)Landmark · Augusta, GAIn the early 1800s a bustling farmers' market, the Lower Market, stood at Fifth and Broad in downtown Augusta.
• Magnolia CemeteryCemetery · Augusta, GAOfficially founded in 1818 on the grounds of a former plantation, Magnolia Cemetery is Augusta's oldest public burial ground, sixty acres holding seven Confederate generals, three Southern poets, and reputedly Georgia's oldest tree.
• Old Medical CollegeLandmark · Augusta, GABuilt in 1835 as a Greek Revival temple of learning, the Old Medical College of Georgia trained physicians until 1913, but its instruction depended on a darker labor: Grandison Harris, an enslaved man bought by the faculty in 1852 and later kept on as a paid employee, was the college's "Resurrection Man," exhuming bodies from Augusta's Cedar Grove Cemetery for dissection.
• Sibley MillLandmark · Augusta, GARising in 1880 on the ruins of the Confederate Powder Works, Sibley Mill spun cotton along the Augusta Canal for more than a century, its weaving rooms thundering with looms until the mill finally fell silent in 2006.
• The Partridge InnInn · Augusta, GAPerched on Augusta's Summerville hill, the Partridge Inn began in 1836 as a private residence and grew into a sprawling Southern hotel after Morris Partridge converted it in 1892, its long verandahs and white columns earning it a place among the Historic Hotels of America.