Ruins of Barnsley Mansion

This old southern plantation home built in Italian style is in Adairsville Geogia. It was partiallly destroyed by a tornado. The gardens surrounding the house have been restored and are beautiful The house was built in !840. There is a lot of dark history surrounding this house. There have been many reports of seeing ghosts of the Barnsley family. Many have seen Godfrey hard at work in the manor. Others have seen his wife,Julia, walking in the gardens. Most inspiring are reports of seeing both Godfrey and Julia together walking the gardens in peace. Others have reported the sounds of footsteps throughout the villas.

[Shirley]

These old plantations must have been beautiful.....so much history! Really nice shot.

[Denise]

What a beautiful old place with such interesting stories.

[Will Prentice]

great shot and perfect story. think you can get a ghost picture??

[Brian Buccigrossi]

Cool shot and history :)

[judith deacon]

This is a fabulous composition, I love the history.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great shot. Interesting history. Would love to see the spirits walking around. Sure is a lot of greenery growing on it.

[Jean Tookey]

A good composition. Good colour. What a beautiful place to live.

[Mike Warren]

Great shot. I've passed the Barnsley Gardens sign on the interstate a million times and wondered what was there.

[Harry J Benson]

Nice composition, processing and thank you for the detail of the "haunted mansion"

[Beth]

Amazing that it still stands and has not yet been destroyed. Love stories like this.

[Margaret Warren]

Greta photo and composition

[Pyrrhula]

Love the house and the story. Worth making a movie
Beautiful pic of it.

[Peggy Scroggins]

Great photo. I am afraid you out did yourself on this one. Absolutely beautiful. Nothing to do but add,,,,,,FAV!!!

[Ramona]

Very cool shot and interesting story.

[Danny Davies]

Such a lovely photo Beth.

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[wendy chapman]

Lovely shot and great spooky story to accompany it. Thx for your nice comments on my photo.

[Carolyn White]

Wonderful picture and very interesting story!

[Shirley Chetwynd]

what a lovely old ruin and ghosts are an added bonus.

[CHARLES MALLIA]

beautiful place it's a shame it is abbanded

[alia_801]

Nice picture - I love how the garden and plants look like they are reclaiming it :) I'm glad you went there in the daytime - it sounds like it could be quite spooky by night!

[GINA]

very cool shot, wow love the old ruins...great story to go with it!

[Linda]

I love the ruins, it must have been an awesome place before it was destroyed. Too bad no one has tried to restore it but it would probably be extremely expensive. It has a great story with it.