Haunted Places in Marietta, GA

Explore 4 haunted places in Marietta, GA — theaters, cemeteries, museums, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Earl and Rachel Smith Strand TheatreTheater · Marietta, GAOn Halloween 1930, fire swept the northeast corner of Marietta Square, clearing the ground for the Manning-Winks Theatre Company to raise the Strand, the most modern theatre outside Atlanta, which opened September 24, 1935 with the premiere of Top Hat.
• Marietta Confederate CemeteryCemetery · Marietta, GAFounded in 1863 when Jane Glover donated a corner of her plantation to bury about twenty Confederate soldiers killed in a train wreck north of town, the cemetery swelled during the Atlanta Campaign into one of the largest Confederate burial grounds in the South, holding more than 3,000 dead from thirteen states.
• Marietta/Cobb Museum of ArtMuseum · Marietta, GAA block off Marietta Square, the museum fills a Greek Revival building raised in 1909 as the town's post office, a role it kept until 1963 before becoming the Cobb County library and, in 1990, a fine arts museum.
• Statue of Mary MeinertCemetery · Marietta, GAIn St. James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta rests Marion "Mary" Meinert, who died in 1898 at the age of 34 from a lung ailment, most likely tuberculosis, just weeks after giving birth to twin daughters.