Historic Site
(706) 886-2256
NOTICE: Travelers Rest is open only the 1st Saturday of the month.
Traveler's Rest, a stagecoach inn and plantation home, was built around 1815 by James R. Wylie, a stakeholder in the Unicoi Turnpike, a busy thoroughfare that passed nearby. Wylie operated the inn until the 1830s when he sold the place to Devereaux Jarrett, the "richest man in the Tugaloo Valley." Among other things, Jarrett doubled the size of Traveler's Rest, which also served as the headquarters of his 14,400-acre plantation. The Jarrett family inhabited the site until the 1950s, when the state of Georgia purchased the remaining few acres of the once-vast plantation and opened it to the public as an historic site. Thanks to its unique and well-preserved architecture, Traveler's Rest was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. Today visitors can enjoy a tour of the house and see many original artifacts and furnishings, some of which were crafted by Caleb Shaw, a splendid cabinetmaker from Massachusetts.
"Here I got an excellent breakfast of coffee, ham, chicken, good bread, butter, honey, and plenty of good new milk for a quarter of a dollar . . . What a charming country this would be to travel in, if one was sure of meeting with such nice clean quarters once a-day!"
-- English Geologist George W. Featherstonhaugh, 1837
Hours: Open the 1st Saturday of the month, 9AM - 5PM. Closed all other days.
www.GeorgiaStateParks.org/TravelersRest
Admission: $2.50-$4.
Group rates available with advance notice.
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Note: Travelers Rest Historic Site has no reservable facilities.
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Events
Christmas for Travelers
Saturday, Dec 5, 2009 1 PM to 5 PM
Sunday, Dec 13, 2009 1 PM to 5 PM
 Visitors will enjoy live music and be entertained with period dances by the 1860s Civilian Society. Craft demonstrators will show their skills in blacksmithing, knitting, crocheting, spinning and more -- all in an 1800s decorative setting created by the Friends of Traveler's Rest. $2.50-$4.00 706-356-4362. |
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