Holly Theater
Opened in July 1948 as a 500-seat movie house with a Georgia marble facade, the Holly Theater anchored downtown Dahlonega until television thinned its crowds in the 1960s; restored in the 1990s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, it now runs as a nonprofit live-theater venue. Cast and crew have long claimed they are not alone in the dark house, telling of unseen spirits who slip in to watch rehearsals and play small tricks, flicking the stage lights and shifting props between takes.
The best-known is a friendly ghost the company nicknames "Eddie," rumored to be 19th-century actor Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, said to keep a permanent balcony seat that lends the old marquee a watchful air long after the audience goes home.
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