Snowy Range Pass

Snowy Range Pass

Monday, October 16, 2017

Travelers Rest

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:

Happytrails said...

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!!

Ruth said...

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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Wanderin' said...


What a great stop and tour! There's so much to see and these are the fun places to visit.

Sherry said...

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.

Nickie and Jim said...

I love a parade. Did they throw candy like Mardi Gras?

Paul and Marti Dahl said...

Five in a bed? Thank goodness they didn't have boots on... ;c)