Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
1 September
2 September
3 September
4 September
5 September
6 September
7 September
- 1997 – Human remains are found near the Stony Point Picnic Area in Candler, North Carolina, and identified as Judy Smith, believed to be a possible victim of serial killer, Gary Michael Hilton.
8 September
9 September
10 September
- Blount College, a predecessor to the University of Tennessee, is established in Knoxville, Tennessee.
11 September
12 September
- 1873 – The Big Bend Tunnel opens in West Virginia. It was supposedly the scene of the death of folk hero John Henry.
13 September
14 September
15 September
16 September
17 September
- The Battle of Antietam is fought just outside Sharpsburg, MD.
18 September
- 1870 – Joseph Emory Davis, brother of Jefferson Davis, dies at Anchuca Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
19 September
20 September
21 September
22 September
- 1850 – Dr. James Nissen dies and he becomes the first person buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.
23 September
24 September
25 September
26 September
- 1907 – Si Conner is hanged at the Noxubee County Jail in Macon, Mississippi. The old jail has been transformed into the Noxubee County Library.
27 September
- 1903 – Locomotive Old ’97, pulling a mail train, jumps the rails and crashes in Danville, Virginia.
28 September
29 September
30 September