The Partridge Inn
Perched on Augusta's Summerville hill, the Partridge Inn began in 1836 as a private residence and grew into a sprawling Southern hotel after Morris Partridge converted it in 1892, its verandahs and white columns earning a place among the Historic Hotels of America. Legend holds that in the late 1800s a bride named Emily was dressing in her custom Atlanta gown when word came that her fiance, riding in for the ceremony, had been mistaken for a wanted soldier and shot dead in the street; she never married and died of heartbreak.
Staff and guests still report a slender woman with long chestnut hair drifting through fifth-floor corridors in flowing white, where doors slam and rooms turn cold, and one guest swore he found "Time for you to leave" scrawled in his steamed mirror.
📍 2110 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904, Augusta, GA · Get directions