Sugar Hill Historic Cemetery
Established in 1886, Sugar Hill Historic Cemetery anchors the city's downtown with more than 1,500 marked burials, and in recent years ground-penetrating radar revealed 130 additional unmarked graves — among them fourteen infants clustered near the community center and twenty paupers laid to rest, unmarked, during the lean Depression years. Buried here is Alice Wood Roach, the only "Alice" in the cemetery, whose name has become entwined with the ghost said to wander the old distillery building next door. There, city staff, contractors, and visiting ghost hunters have long reported a girl named Alice who carries on conversations, slams doors, switches lights, and rearranges objects through the night. Whether the spirit is Alice Wood Roach, her teenage daughter who died young in 1920, or someone else entirely, no one can say — but locals like to imagine the younger Alice drifting back to the graveyard to visit the elder. The headstones keep their silence; the legend keeps its mystery.
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