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Visit
Georgia State Historic Sites
for a view of Georgia's
past treasures that you can enjoy today. Check out the
9 Travel Regions for maps of these state
historic sites.
Cottonwood Village in Gainesville
features Cottonwood Village Antiques, Littleton Arms & Antiques, and The
Country Store.
Chief Vann House State
Historic Site
- 82 Georgia Hwy 225 N, Chatsworth, GA 30705 - Office Phone (706) 695-2598
Hours -
Tues-Sat at 9 am - 5 pm and Sun at 2-5:30 pm
During the 1790s, James Vann became a
Cherokee Indian leader and wealthy businessman. He established the
largest and most prosperous plantation in the Cherokee Nation, covering 1000
acres of Murray County. In 1804 he constructed a beautiful brick home that
was the most elegant in the Cherokee Nation.
Visitors can tour the best preserved historic Cherokee Indian home.
Featuring beautiful hand carvings, a 'floating' staircase and and fine
antiques. Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available with advance notice. Closed on
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
on the outskirts of Chatsworth at the intersection of GA Hwy 225 and GA Hwy
52-A.
Dahlonega Gold
Museum State Historic Site
- #1 Public Square, Dahlonega, GA 30533 - Office Phone (706) 864-2257
Hours -
Mon-Sat at 9 am - 5 pm and Sun at 10 am - 5 pm
Twenty years before the
famed 1849 gold rush in California, thousands of prospectors flocked into the
Cherokee Nation in north Georgia, marking the true beginning of our country's
first gold rush. Their dramatic story is told inside the historic 1836
Lumpkin County Courthouse. It is the oldest courthouse in Georgia.
Dahlonega prospered with its mining activity, and a U.S. Branch Mint opened in
1838. The museum's exhibits include a set of these coins, a nugget
weighing more than five ounces, a large hydraulic cannon and nozzle used to
blast soil from mountainsides, and a film and gift shop.
Visitors can explore the courthouse features, including beautiful wooden chapel
seats from 1889, and the judge's chambers. The town of Dahlonega is a popular
destination for gold panning, shopping and sightseeing. Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available with advance notice. Closed on
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
on the Public Square in Dahlonega, 5 miles west of GA Hwy 400.
Etowah Indian Mounds State
Historic Site - 813 Indian
Mounds Rd SE, Cartersville, GA 30120 - Office Phone (770) 387-3747
Hours - Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5 pm
Home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D.,
this 54-acre site contains 6 earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow
pits and defensive ditch. Many artifacts show how the natives
decorated themselves with shell beads, tattoos, paint, complicated hairdos,
feathers and copper ear ornaments. It is the most intact Mississippian
Culture site in the Southeast U.S. A nature trail leads to the Etowah
River and winds through the forest, showcasing how early Americans used
native trees. Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available
with advance notice. Plan to spend at least 1-2 hours. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
5 miles southwest of I-75 Exit #288. Follow brown directional signs.
Fort King George State
Historic Site
- 1600 Wayne Street, Darien, GA 31305 - Office Phone (912) 437-4770
Hours -
Tues-Sat at 9 am - 5 pm and Sun at 2-5:30 pm
From 1721 until 1736,
Fort King George was the southern outpost of the British Empire in North
America. A cypress blockhouse, barracks and palisaded earthe;rn fort were
constructed in 1721 by scoutmen led by Colonel John "Tuscarora Jack"
Barnwell. Using old records and drawings, this 18th century frontier
fortification on the Altamaha River has been reconstructed for public tours.
A museum and film cover the Guale Indians, the Santo Domingo de Talaje
mission, Fort King George, the Scots of Darien and 19th century sawmilling
when Darien became a major seaport. In addition to the fort replica, remains
of three sawmills and tabby ruins are still visible. Amenities: Parking,
Public Restrooms, Accessibility for mobility-impaired Admission:
$5.
Group rates available with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas
and New Years Day. Bus parking available. Located
in Darien, 3 miles east of I-95 Exit #49
Fort Morris
Historic Site -
2559 Fort Morris Rd, Midway, GA 31320
Office Phone (912) 884-5999
Hours -
Tues-Sat at 9 am - 5 pm and Sun at 2-5:30 pm
This Revolutionary War fort was captured by the British in 1779 and used
again by Americans during the War of 1812.
When the Continental Congress convened in 1776, the delegates recognized the
importance of a fort to protect their growing seaport from the British. Soon
afterwards, a low bluff on the Medway River at Sunbury was fortified and
garrisoned by 200 patriots. When the British demanded the fort's
surrender, on November 25, 1778, the defiant Col. John McIntosh replied
"Come and Get It!" Visit Fort Morris to see what happened. Today,
visitors can stand within the earthwork remains and view scenic Saint
Catherine's Sound. Amenities: Parking, Public Restrooms, Accessibility for
mobility-impaired Activities: Educational
Programs, historical research, Colonial Coast Birding Trail,
Bird watching, 1 mile nature trail, visitors center, and picnic sites. Admission:
$2.50 - $5. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Bus
parking available. Located
7 miles east of I-95 Exit #76 via Islands Highway and Fort Morris Road.
Hofwyl-Broadfield
Plantation
Historic Site - 5556 U.S.
Hwy 17 North, Brunswick, GA 31525 -
(912) 264-7333 Office Phone
Hours - Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5:30 pm
This beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia's
rice coast. In the early 1800s, William Brailsford of Charleston
carved a rice plantation from marshes along the Altamaha River. The
family continued to grow rice until 1913. Today, a museum features silver
from the family collection and a model of the plantation during its heyday.
Tour the 1850s antebellum home and museum. A guided tour shows us the home with family heirlooms, 18th and 19th century
furniture and Cantonese china. Amenities include Parking, Public
Restrooms, Accessibility for mobility-impaired. Admission:
$2.50 - $5. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
between Brunswick and Darien on US Hwy 17, 1 mile east of I-95 at Exit 42
Jarrell Plantation -
711 Jarrell Plantation Rd, Juliette, GA 31046
Office Phone (912) 986-5172 Hours -
Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5:30 pm
Nestled in the red clay hills of Georgia, this cotton plantation was owned
by a single family for more than 140 years. It survived Gen. Sherman's
'March to the Sea', typhoid fever, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the cotton
boil weevil, the advent of steam power, and a transition from faring to
forestry. In 1895 a sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill,
planer, sugar cane press, syrup evaporator, workshop, barn and outbuildings
were added to the Jarrell Plantation farm.
Admission:
$2.50 - $5 Located
southeast of Juliette, 18 miles east of I-75 Forsyth Exit #185, or 18 miles
north of Macon Exit #171.
Jefferson Davis Memorial -
338 Jeff Davis Park Road, Fitzgerald, GA 31750
Office Phone (912) 831-2335 Hours -
Wed-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5:30 pm
When Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a few remaining staff members
crossed the Savannah River into Georgia on May 3, 1865, they were headed for
the Western Theater of War where Davis planned to unite rebel forces and
continue fighting for the "lost cause." On May 9th, they camped in
this pine forest, not knowing that pursuit was so close behind. At
dawn, they were surrounded by two independent groups of Union Calvary who
were unaware of each other's presence. Davis was taken prisoner.
Today, a monument marks the spot where he was arrested. You can tour the 13
acre historic site that includes a museum, short trail, picnic tables, gift
shop and group picnic shelter.
Admission:
$1.75 - $3 Location
- From I-75 Exit #78, go east
14 miles on GA Hwy 32 to Irwinville. Turn left on Jeff Davis Park Road and
proceed one mile.
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Lapham-Patterson House State Historic Site
- 626 N. Dawson St,
Thomasville, GA 31792 - Office Phone (912) 225-4004 Hours -
Wed-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5:30 pm
This south Georgia house museum is a one-of-a-kind building. Built between
1884-85 as a winter cottage for C. W. Lapham, a survivor of the 1871 Great
Chicago Fire, the house was well equipped with its own gas lighting system,
hot and cold water, indoor plumbing and modern closets. There are no
right angles in the cottage, and nothing is centered or symmetrical. The 19
rooms have 45 doors and 53 windows. Due to its outstanding
architectural significance, the Lapham-Patterson House was named a National
Historic Landmark in 1975.
Admission: $2.50 -
$5 Located
in downtown Thomasville, GA.
Little White House State Historic Site
- 401 Little White House Rd,
Warm Springs, GA 31830 - Office
Phone (706) 655-5870
at
8 am - 5 pm Hours
-
9 am - 4:45 pm Daily
Franklin D. Roosevelt built this home in 1932, while governor of New York.
He came to warm Springs in 1924 to find a cure for polio. Swimming in the
warm spring waters brought him no miracle cure, but it did bring
improvement.
Visitors can tour his home just as it was when he left it for the last time.
Includes the servant and guest quarters, the Walk of American Stone and
Flats, and the historic pools complex that first brought the future
president here. Admission:
$4-$7. Last full tour at 4 pm. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
in Darien, 3 miles east of I-95 Exit #49
New Echota Cherokee State
Historic Site -
1211 Chatsworth Hwy NE,
Calhoun, GA 30701 - Office Phone
(706) 624-1321
Hours - Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5 pm
In 1825, the Cherokee national legislature established a capital called New
Echota at the headwaters of the Oostanaula River. It was the site of the
first Indian language newspaper office, a court case that carried over to
the Supreme Court. Visitors can see several original and reconstructed
buildings, including the council House, Court House, print shop, Missionary
Samuel Worcester's home, an 1805 store, outbuildings, smoke houses, corn
cribs and barns, and Visitor Center. Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
in Calhoun 1 mile east of I-75 Exit #317 on GA
Hwy 225.
Pickett's Mill Battleground
State
Historic Site - 4432 Mt
Tabor Church Rd, Dallas, GA 30132 - Office Phone (770) 443-7850
Hours - Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5 pm
One of the best preserved Civil War battlefields in the nation. Visitors can
travel roads used by Federal and Confederate troops, see earthworks
constructed by them, and walk through the same ravine where hundreds died. Admission:
$1.75 - $3. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
6 miles northeast of Dallas off BA Hwy 381 on Tabor Church Road
Robert Toombs House
Historic Site -
216 East Robert Toombs Ave., Washington, GA 30673 - Office Phone (706)
678-2226
Hours -
Tues-Sat at 9 am - 5 pm
A legend in his own time, Robert Toombs was a successful planter and lawyer
who led a turbulent career as state legislator, U.S. Congressman and
Senator. "Defend yourselves; the enemy is at your door!" thundered Toombs in
1860. In 1870, as the Reconstruction Era drew to a close in Georgia,
Toombs felt that Georgia should live under a constitution of her own making.
His last service to Georgia was helping create the Constitution of 1877,
which was not amended until 1945. Visitors are welcome to tour the
house and grounds, view exhibits and displays. Enjoy a dramatic film
portraying an elderly Toombs relating his story to a young reporter. Admission:
$1.75 - $3. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Bus
parking available.
Traveler's Rest
Historic Site - 8162
Riverdale Rd, Toccoa, GA 30577
Office Phone (706) 886-2256
Hours - Fri-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5 pm
Traveler's Rest is a stagecoach inn and plantation home. It was built around
1815 by James R. Wylie. He sold the inn to Devereaux Jarrett in the 1830s who
doubled the plantation size. Georgia purchased the plantation in the 1950s and
opened it to the public as a historic site. Visitors can enjoy a tour of
the house, and see many of its original artifacts and furnishings. Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available
with advance notice. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
six miles east of Toccoa via U.S. Hwy 123
Wormsloe State Historic Site
- 7601 Skidaway Rd, Savannah, GA 31406
Office Phone (912) 353-3023 Hours - Tues-Sat at
9 am - 5 pm and Sun from 2-5:30 pm
A breathtaking avenue lined with live oaks leads to the tabby ruins of
Wormsloe, the colonial estate constructed by Noble Jones, one of Georgia's
first settlers. Jones served as constable, Indian agent, surveyor, and
member of the Royal Council. Visitors can view artifacts excavated from
Wormsloe and a film about the founding of the 13th colony. Amenities:
Parking, Public Restrooms, Accessibility for mobility-impaired Admission:
$2.50 - $4. Group rates available
with advance notice. Bus parking available. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Located
10 miles southeast of Savannah's historic district on Skidaway Road.
Visit
Georgia State Historic Sites
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past treasures that you can enjoy today. Check out the
