Old Haunted Mansion on the Hill (Columbus, Macon: middle-class, real estate, squatters)

[Remington Steel]

There used to be an old mansion surrounded by large trees up on the hill behind what was once the Columbus Square 4/8 theaters that was occupied in the 70s and early 80s. I think it became abandoned in the mid to late 80s and the rumors were it was haunted (the walls used to bleed) and was a hangout for squatters. I think it has been demolished for years now (I don't currently live in Columbus and haven't for many years). Does anyone remember this house and the history behind it?

[Remington Steel]

No one?! Ok.

[mygoldens31909]

Could you be referring to the Box home/mansion? Here is what I know: Mr. Box owned the property on which Columbus Square Mall and Midtown (Kmart) Shopping Centers were built. The property stretched from the corner of Macon Road and Rigdon Road all the way towards Forrest Road. It was later bisected by the Lindsey Creek Bypass, now known as I-185. The house was located in the middle of the property. I remember a brick-gated driveway in the area of Midtown Drive close to Memory Lanes and Baker Music that led to the home. I never saw the house. Several roads in the area carry his name, (Box Road, Box Circle, and Boxwood Boulevard.) As a side note, i remember the Ledger-Enquirer reporting on a hermit and his cabin that was found on the property when it was being cleared for Columbus Square.

[Remington Steel]

Originally Posted by mygoldens31909

Could you be referring to the Box home/mansion? Here is what I know: Mr. Box owned the property on which Columbus Square Mall and Midtown (Kmart) Shopping Centers were built. The property stretched from the corner of Macon Road and Rigdon Road all the way towards Forrest Road. It was later bisected by the Lindsey Creek Bypass, now known as I-185. The house was located in the middle of the property. I remember a brick-gated driveway in the area of Midtown Drive close to Memory Lanes and Baker Music that led to the home. I never saw the house. Several roads in the area carry his name, (Box Road, Box Circle, and Boxwood Boulevard.) As a side note, i remember the Ledger-Enquirer reporting on a hermit and his cabin that was found on the property when it was being cleared for Columbus Square.

Hmm...that maybe so. Very interesting. I remember back in the 70s Boxwood being a middle-class subdivision (at the time) and had some pretty nice houses. Is it the same now?

[Remington Steel]

Bump

[Will Dockery]

Originally Posted by mygoldens31909

Could you be referring to the Box home/mansion? Here is what I know: Mr. Box owned the property on which Columbus Square Mall and Midtown (Kmart) Shopping Centers were built. The property stretched from the corner of Macon Road and Rigdon Road all the way towards Forrest Road. It was later bisected by the Lindsey Creek Bypass, now known as I-185. The house was located in the middle of the property. I remember a brick-gated driveway in the area of Midtown Drive close to Memory Lanes and Baker Music that led to the home. I never saw the house. Several roads in the area carry his name, (Box Road, Box Circle, and Boxwood Boulevard.) As a side note, i remember the Ledger-Enquirer reporting on a hermit and his cabin that was found on the property when it was being cleared for Columbus Square.

This sounds like the place.

[Kjordan1973]

Originally Posted by Remington Steel

There used to be an old mansion surrounded by large trees up on the hill behind what was once the Columbus Square 4/8 theaters that was occupied in the 70s and early 80s. I think it became abandoned in the mid to late 80s and the rumors were it was haunted (the walls used to bleed) and was a hangout for squatters. I think it has been demolished for years now (I don't currently live in Columbus and haven't for many years). Does anyone remember this house and the history behind it?

I lived in this house in the early 80’s. My Aunt sold real estate and we lived there to keep vandals out. It was haunted, the walls did NOT bleed. Lol. It was amazing, but it was also scary as a kid in such a big empty house. We did have a homeless man found downstairs in the ballroom, but we had him leave. I think about the house a lot.

[Kjordan1973]

So many memories. We used to explore the old cabins and houses on the huge property and found a civil war uniform. The house had a HUGE horseshoe driveway the led to the top of the hill where the house was. I can remember almost every single inch of the house even though I was only 8 or 9. The foyer was all black and white marble. My cousins that lived with us were teenage boys and they would play basketball in the dining room because it was so big. The deep end of the pool was full of mud and scum water, the big fountain in the back yard didn’t work, but I remember being enamored by it and trying to imagine what it was like when it worked. The house had 4 bedrooms on the main floor and each bedroom had its own bathroom. We had a big, big kitchen and a butler kitchen. It was truly amazing. We had furniture to fill about a very small part of the house and didn’t use the downstairs at all. There was a ballroom, wine cellar?, vault, bedroom and bathroom and a full wet bar with murals of the old south (maybe New Orleans) on all of the walls in the wet bar. The ballroom had French doors along one end that led out to a covered patio above it was the huge screened porch that led to the living room on the main level. There was a split wrought iron staircase that led up there and the screened porch was wrought iron. It was amazing.