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 in 1930, fire swept the buildings on the northeast corner of Marietta Square, clearing the ground where a grander house would rise.
• 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 occupies a Greek Revival building raised in 1909 to serve as the town's post office, a role it held until 1963 before housing the Cobb County library and finally becoming a fine arts museum in 1990.
• Statue of Mary MeinertCemetery · Marietta, GAIn St.