- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Title:
- Traveler's Rest State Historic Site [1992]
- Creator:
- Georgia. Department of Natural Resources. Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Department of Natural Resources. Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia. Department of Natural Resources. Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division
- Date of Original:
- 1992
- Subject:
- Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Parks brochure
- External Identifiers:
- Call Number GA N200.P2 S1 M5 1992 TRAVELER
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_y-ga-bn200-pp2-bs1-bm5-b1992-btraveler
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_y-ga-bn200-pp2-bs1-bm5-b1992-btraveler
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
-
When English traveler George W. Featherstonhaugh visited Traveler's Rest in 1837, he was pleasantly surprised,"...1 got an excellent breakfast of coffee, ham, chicken, good bread and butter, honey and plenty of good new milk for a quarter of a dollar...What a channing country this would be to travel in if one was sure of meeting with such nice clean quarters once a day." Today, visitors to Traveler's Rest receive a personal guided tour of the plantation home and hear many anecdotes about historic guests who stayed at the inn. The inn is furnished with antiques made by local craftsmen.
Traveler's Rest was the plantation home of Devereaux Jarrett, "richest man in the Tugaloo Valley" Jarrett bought the site in 1833 and made it the center of his thriving plantation, but to accommodate the growing number of travelers to northeast Georgia he added on to the structure and opened it to the public as an inn. john C. Calhoun stayed at Traveler's Rest on his way west to the gold fields. The hotel register also boasts the name ofJoseph E. Brown, Civil War Governor of Georgia.
In 1966, Traveler's Rest was recognized as a National Historic Landmark because of its fine architecture which includes a 90-foot-long porch, hand-numbered rafters and 20-inch-wide paneling.
ANNUAL SPECIAL EVENTS (Subject to Change) Old-Fashioned Christmas
Operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
~15
1992
HISTORIC SITE LOCATION
Located six miles east of Toccoa via U.S. 123.
NEARBY ATTRACTIONS
Tallulah Gorge
Tugaloo State Park
Toccoa Falls
HOURS: Open year-round Tuesday - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m.- 5:30p.m.
Closed Mondays (except on some legal holidays), Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
Small admission fee. Group rates available with advance notice.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Traveler's Rest State Historic Site Route 3 Toccoa, Georgia 30577 (404) 886-2256
FOR MORE INFORMATIO N O N GEORGIA 'S PARKS AND HISTORIC SITES: Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Communications Office 205 Butler Street, SE, Suite 1258, Atlanta, Ga. 30334
(404) 656-3530
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