Wynne-Russell House
Thomas Wynne and his wife Mary Prince Benson settled this upper-Piedmont farmstead in 1826, raising fourteen children in a Plantation Plain house whose handmade Georgia-clay brick fireplaces still stand. Generations lived and died on the land — Thomas in 1839, son James in Confederate service in 1862, and "Miss Mary" Russell, who stayed until her death at ninety-seven in 1971 — and the family cemetery sits beside the house to this day.
Now owned by the City of Lilburn and tended by the Lilburn Community Partnership, the home is said to keep its residents close: the house historian, herself a paranormal investigator, describes a presence lingering among the graves and another that settles into a porch rocking chair. The Byers couple of Timeless Paranormal lead recurring city-sanctioned investigations through the 1826 rooms.
📍 4684 Wynne-Russell Drive, Lilburn, GA 30047, Lilburn, GA · Get directions