Price Memorial Hall
Price Memorial Hall stands on the foundation of the 1838 Dahlonega Branch U.S. Mint, which struck gold coins during the Georgia Gold Rush until the Confederacy seized it in 1861; the mint building burned in 1878, and North Georgia College raised the present hall on its surviving footings in 1879. In 1972 its steeple was sheathed in genuine Dahlonega gold, and the building remains the oldest on the University of North Georgia campus. Local ghost lore holds that the haunting here lives not in the basement but in the belfry, where a dark energy is said to gather at the very top beneath the gilded steeple. Visitors and students have long traded uneasy stories about the campus's older corners, and the gold-crowned tower carries a quiet weight that the daylight administrative bustle below never quite dispels.
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