Lawrenceville Historic Cemetery
Established in Lawrenceville's earliest days, the historic cemetery holds Gwinnett County's founders, including William Maltbie and Elisha Winn, the town's first mayor John Clay Smith, Revolutionary War veteran Nathan Spence, and eight Confederate soldiers among rows of unmarked graves. It has become the centerpiece of the long-running Lawrenceville Ghost Tours, where guides recount sightings of orbs, drifting ectoplasm, and captured EVPs among the oldest stones. The most cited account belongs to paranormal investigator Patrick Burns, who spent a night there with an 11 Alive news crew and reported cold rushing up their spines, thirty-degree temperature drops on their legs, balls of light streaking across their monitors, and dead zones where camera batteries suddenly drained. Reviewing their footage afterward, the team heard a woman's voice chattering on and on without end, though no woman had been present. Tour guides have dismissed the easy explanations and called it a bona fide spirit.
📍 Between East Pike Street and Highway 29, about a half-mile from the downtown square, Lawrenceville, GA, Lawrenceville, GA · Get directions