Dahlonega is known for many things — gold, history and wine among them — but the historic city hasn’t gone almost 200 years without gathering a spooky legend or two. The many historic buildings on Dahlonega’s square are supposedly home to some haunting sights, and the town’s Mount Hope Cemetery, a pre-Civil War burial ground home to more than 1,000 gravesites, boasts several legends best not told after dark. “I’d say mostly older buildings in the square have some sort of tradition of paranormal activity going on,” said Jeremy Sharp, owner and operator of Dahlonega Walking Tours, a business that takes patrons on a tour of Dahlonega’s haunted past.
Tourists hunt the ghostly haunts of Dahlonega
Walking tours take visitors around square and tell spooky stories