Memory Hill Cemetery
Laid 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. Among its most storied residents is Dixie Haygood, the petite stage magician known worldwide as "The Georgia Wonder," whose eccentric reputation followed her into death. Local legend holds that a mysterious hole opens near her grave each year around Christmas, returning no matter how often it is filled and cemented, as if her spirit refuses to stay still. Visitors on the city's ghost tour speak of murderers' restless shades and figures seen moving among the old marble in the dark, and the official accounts note that some claim "Dixie's mysterious ways and eccentric spirit are still at work" inside the cemetery's gates.
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