Wright Square - The Hanging of Alice Riley, Savannah, Georgia

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Historic Site
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32.079007, -81.092134 • Radius: 250m

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The Hanging of Alice Riley at the gallows that once stood in Wright Square is a popular story on ghost tours. Irish immigrant Alice Riley was allegedly the first woman to be executed in Georgia. She was the indentured servant to a cruel man, and after she could take no more rapes and beatings, she murdered him.

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