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 the flood of 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 and served Lumpkin County until 1965 before becoming the Dahlonega Gold Museum.
• Holly TheaterTheater · Dahlonega, GABuilt as a movie house and opened in July 1948 with a Georgia marble facade and seating for 500, the Holly Theater anchored downtown Dahlonega until television thinned its crowds in the 1960s; it was restored in the 1990s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, today operating 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 same year the gold-rush town was founded — and it earned its official name in 1884 after years of being called simply 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 in Dahlonega became the Worley family's homestead in 1865, just after Captain William J.