Haunted Places in Milledgeville, GA

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

• Central State HospitalLandmark · Milledgeville, GAOpened in 1842 as the State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, the Milledgeville campus swelled across 2,000 acres and more than 200 buildings until, by the late 1950s, it held nearly 12,000 patients and ranked as the largest mental institution in the country.
• Memory Hill CemeteryCemetery · Milledgeville, GALaid out as Cemetery Square in Milledgeville's 1803 plan for Georgia's frontier capital, Memory Hill grew into a burial ground for governors, legislators, an Old West train robber, and patients of the old state asylum, with the writer Flannery O'Connor resting beneath a flat stone in Section A.
• Old Governor's MansionMuseum · Milledgeville, GACompleted in 1839, the Greek Revival mansion served as Georgia's executive residence through the antebellum years and the Civil War, its kitchens run for decades by free and enslaved staff before the capital moved to Atlanta and the house passed to Georgia College.
• Old State Capitol BuildingLandmark · Milledgeville, GARaised on the highest point of Statehouse Square in 1807, the Old State Capitol was the seat of Georgia's government for sixty years and one of the oldest Gothic Revival public buildings in the country.
• Rose Hill at Lockerly ArboretumHouse · Milledgeville, GADaniel Reese Tucker bought the property in 1851, then rebuilt it after fire into the columned Greek Revival mansion completed in 1852, now the centerpiece of the 50-acre Lockerly Arboretum.