Haunted Places in Dahlonega, GA

Explore 5 haunted places in Dahlonega, GA — museums, theaters, cemeteries and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Dahlonega Gold Museum (Old Lumpkin County Courthouse)Museum · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1836 to settle claim disputes from America's first major gold rush, this brick courthouse — fired from local clay laced with trace gold — is the oldest standing courthouse in Georgia, serving Lumpkin County until 1965 before becoming the Dahlonega Gold Museum.
• Holly TheaterTheater · Dahlonega, GAOpened in July 1948 as a 500-seat movie house with a Georgia marble facade, the Holly Theater anchored downtown Dahlonega until television thinned its crowds in the 1960s; restored in the 1990s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, it now runs as a nonprofit live-theater venue.
• Mount Hope CemeteryCemetery · Dahlonega, GAMount Hope Cemetery is the oldest public burial ground inside Dahlonega's city limits, its first known interment dating to 1833, the year the gold-rush town was founded, though it earned its name only in 1884 after years as the Gold City Cemetery.
• Price Memorial HallLandmark · Dahlonega, GAPrice Memorial Hall stands on the foundation of the 1838 Dahlonega Branch U.S.
• Worley Homestead InnInn · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1845, this antebellum home near the Dahlonega town square became the Worley family's homestead in 1865, after Captain William J. Worley returned from the Civil War, and stayed in the family until 1932.