Haunted Squares

5 haunted squares mapped across 2 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Calhoun SquareSquare · Savannah, GACalhoun Square is the only one of Savannah's squares still ringed entirely by its original buildings, and, many believe, the only one built over a forgotten burial ground of the enslaved.
• Madison SquareSquare · Savannah, GANamed for President James Madison, this square honors the bloody Siege of Savannah and the soldiers who fell trying to retake the city in 1779.
• Reynolds SquareSquare · Savannah, GALaid out in 1734 as one of Savannah's earliest squares and later named for royal governor John Reynolds, this leafy green once held the colony's Filature, where silkworms were raised in a failed bid to spin a Georgia silk industry.
• Washington SquareSquare · Philadelphia, PAOne of William Penn's five original 1682 squares, this leafy park near Independence Hall sits atop a mass grave.
• Wright SquareSquare · Savannah, GAWright Square rests on far older ground than its monuments suggest.