The Travelers Inn is a designated National Historic
site just outside of the city of Toccoa, GA.
We visited the site with our friends Tom and Sally while we were staying
with them. The land that the site sits
on originally was Cherokee land that was granted to Major Jesse
Walton in 1785 for his service in the Revolutionary War.
Three years later he was killed by
Indians near there in 1789. The Walton family sold the land to James Rutherford
Wyly. He built the house as a stopover for travelers on the new turnpike going east and
west through northern Georgia.
Devereaux Jarrett bought the house
in 1838 and it became the operating center of his 14,000-acre plantation.
Jarrett added to the original structure. It had ten rooms available to
travelers. It became a center of
information and commerce with growing population of the area . The preserved structure is a fine example of
construction and life style of the period.
This object was in one of the
bedrooms with no identification. We
could not be sure what it was. I thought it could be anything from a hat box to
port- a- potty. The only ranger on duty had no idea what it could be.
While we were in the area , there
was a annual salute to the military in downtown Toccoa. There were encampments , reenactments and a
parade. We arrived just in time for the
parade, which focused mostly on the WWII period. Some of the bystanders were dressed in period
clothes . There were a number of paratrooper
groups in the parade. Our friend , Tom,
said that there was a large training compound just out of town used for
paratrooper training. Reportedly, there
are efforts ongoing to create a museum on the
grounds of the training area.
6 comments:
I absolutely love this type of history!! This isn't far from our "home" base so we will have to make a visit!! That item in the bedroom is a puzzle...you'd think the ranger would have known?? It does look like a porta potty doesn't it?
The parade was awesome and having bystanders in period clothing is really neat!!
Thanks for sharing this piece of history!!
Looks like a great time. I would love to have seen that street scene, the clothes from that era are a lot of fun to see and I bet they had fun dressing up in them too.
That object makes me think of a top hat, hat box.
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What a great stop and tour! There's so much to see and these are the fun places to visit.
Seems so strange to see the war my father fought in and the clothes my mother wore as "historical" and "period pieces". Great pictures of both parade , clothing and the wonderfully detailed tavern.
I love a parade. Did they throw candy like Mardi Gras?
Five in a bed? Thank goodness they didn't have boots on... ;c)
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