Ezekiel Harris House
Tobacco merchant Ezekiel Harris raised this Federal-style house above Augusta in 1797, and for generations it was mistaken for the old Mackay Trading Post, where legend says thirteen captured Patriots were hanged from the staircase during the Revolution's first siege of Augusta. The misidentification stuck, and so did the ghost story. Visitors who climb the stairs and count to thirteen claim to feel a rope tighten at the throat, and on quiet afternoons docents and guests have reported low moaning and the dry scrape of boots dragging across the stairwell floor. A second figure lingers on the upper story, a woman with her hands raised in supplication, sometimes named as a grieving mother of the executed. The house keeps its dignity in daylight, but the staircase has never quite stopped remembering.
📍 1822 Broad Street, Augusta, GA 30904, Augusta, GA · Get directions