Comments on: The Ezekiel Harris House

By: disgusta

disgusta — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:46:37 +0000

Niggers gonna nigg.

By: opal

opal — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:48:52 +0000

well guess what…i live near augusta, so i will do sum investigating..if i find anything, i will post it on my Fb page with pictures and what not. so we shall see if this is a true haunting or not. then if i have proof, i will post my Fb info on here

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:04:01 +0000

All of you are wrong. The Harris house was owned by a tobacco trader who,due to greedy ,unfriendly business practices eventually went bankrupt.
I suggest you read Edward J. Cashin”s book,”The Story of Augusta”.Mr.Cashin lived ,taught history,and sadly passed away here in Augusta.His book is considered to be well researched and written, a treasure trove of Augusta history.
The “White House”,as it was known was used by British loyalists who were attacked by Elijah Clark and a company of men.The house was bombarded and put to ruin.Under a flag of truce Clark withdrew his men, and in the ensuing confusion,some were cut off and captured by the men under Thomas Brown, their commander.Following a standing order from British General Cornwallis,13 patriots were hung because they had sworn alligience to the crown,but took up arms against it.
The Harris House is a beautiful house,located on the upper end of Broad St. close to the canal and the cotton mills built latewr, I is nowhere near the campus of ASU,nor did it have anything to do with the Civil War.Harris was long dead by then,having had to sell his property and move away to Wilkes County. He died in 1829.

By: Lillie

Lillie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:15:54 +0000

Soldiers were hung, I don’t know if it was in that house. They were hung from a stairwell. Because Henry Duke was one of the soldiers and he was an ancestor of mine.
Check out Jimmy Carter’s book. The hornet’s Nest.

By: terrie

terrie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:18:50 +0000

i went there a long time ago and i saw several militia murdered by the crete indains while the british dragoons stood nearby and smirked

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:21:10 +0000

I reside in Augusta, and i once visited the Ezekiel Harris House. I am an ancestor of the original owner. Just as i was leaving, i snapped a picture of the upstairs nursery and in the picture there is what seems to be a pregnant woman in old victorian styled dress, standing there staring down at me!

By: heather

heather — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:44:16 +0000

this is false.
they got the story wrong, and it’s the wrong house. after further study, they realized that the house had nothing to do with a soldier EVER being hung there. i live very close to this house, and know the story well. and to whoever said something about the “indoor stairwell” you’re right, there isn’t an indoor one, but the legend is said to have happened in the outdoor stairwell. when i went on the guided tour of the home, our guide actually brought up the false story, and told us how it was disproved, and showed us where the ‘soldier’ was supposedly ‘hung’.
but, all in all, my point is, this is untrue.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:09:57 +0000

I wonder if this is true at all.I do not belive in ghost.Because i have never seen one.when i go their it would be very intristing to find out if this is true.if so i will be amazed

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:50:59 +0000

Ok, this is how I heard it. It was a soldier but it was a soldier from the war of 1812 who was captured near Savannah. The soldier was brought to Augusta to stand trial and was eventually hung in the house. He was followed by several others. The one about the slave who was caught with his masters wife is down on 8th street (I think) it’s called the whipping post where it is “alleged” that slaves were beaten there. This particualr case was the last slave to be publicly beaten there and he put a curse on the post that is anyone tried to tear it down they would die. once again allegedly 3 people who did try to demolish it died but I have not been able to find proof of it.

By: david

david — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:25:26 +0000

DAVID13 Lindsey the house is located in harrisburge where I live. But I have heard that people be seeing the patroits mother on the 2 and 3 floor