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10 Historic Georgia Homes to Tour | Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website

Hills & Dales Estate in LaGrange, Georgia

From the Swan House in Atlanta to Pebble Hill in Thomasville, plan a trip to discover remarkable historic homes in Georgia.

Yes, you can time travel in Georgia. It's as simple as visiting one of the many historic homes and learning what life was like for those who lived there years ago.

Here are the 10 best historic homes for touring. Be sure to call ahead for tour times and fees.

Swan House

The lavish 1928 Swan House at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta was built for the Inman family. Designed by famed architect Philip Shutze, it earned its name for the swan motif found throughout the house. Movie buffs will recognize it from "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."

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Owens-Thomas House

A National Historic Landmark, the Owens-Thomas House in Savannah is known for its English Regency architecture and elaborate indoor plumbing system — an innovative amenity in 1819.  The home also includes an English-inspired ornamental formal garden and an original carriage house with one of the earliest intact slave quarters in the South. Purchase a Triple-Site Pass to see the house, Telfair Academy and Jepson Center for a discounted price.

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Hills & Dales Estate

A 13,000-square-foot Italian villa perched atop a hill in LaGrange is an unexpected sight. The Hills & Dales Estate was commissioned by the Callaway family in 1916 and is open for tours, as are the 19th-century gardens.

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Andalusia

Author Flannery O'Connor lived among the 544 acres of rolling hills, red clay and towering pines of Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville from 1951 until her death in 1964. The main house of this literary landmark, however, has roots that trace back to the mid-1800s.

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Pebble Hill

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many wealthy Northerners wintered in the warm climate of South Georgia. Some purchased land such as Pebble Hill, which the Hanna family turned into an elegant sporting retreat.

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Plum Orchard Mansion

Plum Orchard Mansion in Cumberland Island was built in 1898 for the Carnegie family and is part of the Cumberland Island National Seashore. The best times to visit this Georgian Revival mansion are when volunteer caretakers are in residence or for the national park's Lands and Legacies Tour.

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Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson

The 28th U.S. president lived in Augusta during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson was built in 1859, and during tours you can see a window where Wilson etched his name as a child. 

Visit President Wilson's Boyhood Home

Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site

Franklin D. Roosevelt built a small vacation home in Warm Springs while serving as governor of New York. He found the area's therapeutic spring waters eased his polio symptoms. Now it is known as Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site.

Visit the Little White House

The Wren's Nest

The Wren's Nest in Atlanta belonged to Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings." This Queen Anne Victorian home opened as a museum in 1913. Visit on Saturdays to enjoy onsite storytelling. 

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Hay House

At the time of its completion in 1859, the Hay House in Macon, an Italian Renaissance Revival home nicknamed the "Palace of the South," boasted central heat, hot and cold running water, and an in-house kitchen. We suggest booking the Behind-the-Scenes Tour if possible.

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Pharr Plantation House near Social Circle, Georgia. This house was built in 1840 by slave labor. Bricks were brought from England to Savannah, and from there by oxen to the plantations. The plantation used to have 150 slaves, but is now abandoned by the one remaining family member and the land is leased to small farmers.

Pharr Plantation House near Social Circle, Georgia. This house was built in 1840 by slave labor. Bricks were brought from England to Savannah, and from there by oxen to the plantations. The plantation used to have 150 slaves, but is now abandoned by the one remaining family member and the land is leased to small farmers. nine0002 Similar

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One such home was the Smith family mansion in Rosewell, Georgia, the heart of a historic cotton plantation, an elegant colonial home that has survived civil war, desolation, and revival. The history of the Smith family home is not ordinary, unlike her surname, which is the most common in the English-speaking world. Its ancestors came to New England from Old England. They, like many in the colony of wealthy former British, first settled in the city of Savannah, the then most developed coastal city on the east coast of Georgia. nine0005


Smith Family Plantation, City of Rosewell

Archibald Smith was born there in 1801. At the age of 29, he married his cousin Anna and established two plantations on the coast in the town of St. Mary. However, they did not give a good harvest: rice did not germinate well in the local climate. Therefore, when one of the representatives of the community, Rosewell King, invited the strict Presbyterian Archibald to settle in the heart of the state - in the city of Rosewell founded by him, Smith, without hesitation, moved there with his wife, 4 children and 30 slaves. nine0005


Archibald and Anna Smith

Among the founding fathers of the city, Archibald was the only planter, the rest were employed in the cotton mill. The land on which he decided to plant cotton covered 1.2 square kilometers and was located north of the city, while the family house, built between 1843 and 1845, was located in the very center of the city - a mile from the main area. Around the main house there is a kitchen, a guest house, a well, a shed with tools; the so-called “smoke house”, or smokehouse, where meat of all kinds was stored and prepared, but, first of all, the signature dish of the southerners was dry salted pork. A small outbuilding attached to the house was always open to travelers who brought news from other states and transmitted news from distant relatives and friends. nine0005




From Archibald Smith's notes on housekeeping, it follows that abolitionist ideas were close to him (he did not treat slavery with the fanaticism characteristic of southerners and was not opposed to its abolition), but he could not do without slaves, since they were the backbone of housekeeping. The head of the plantation looked at slavery from an economic, not a social point of view: upon arrival in Rosewell, he divided all the land between black families and harvested crops as a kind of fixed dues, they could use the rest at their discretion, including selling. There is no evidence that Archibald treated his slaves badly, but still they were his property, which could be bought and sold, including separately. In 1863, there were nine African-American families working on the Smith Plantation. They were valued at $10,000 including taxes, equivalent to $175,000 today. Slaves were given only one set of clothes per year. It was loose so as not to restrict movement during work, they tried to wear shoes only in bad weather so that they would not wear out. Archibald gave out new things, as well as furniture and kitchen utensils, as a reward for good behavior or success in harvesting. nine0005

In the new home, Archibald and his wife raised four children: two sons, William and Archibald Jr., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Helen. However, their fate was destroyed by the Civil War. The Smith girls were sent to Paris for their safety, because of which they could not get married: it was very difficult to get a blessing across the ocean, and when Elizabeth and Helen returned to America, their age was already too respectable for the status of brides.


Both sons, Archibald and Willie, were accepted into the Confederate Army and went to fight: William ended up in the signal corps in the thick of the war - in Savannah, where the most fierce battles between North and South took place. Every day he composed a letter addressed to his family and put them in a chest that his father and mother received after his imminent death. More than three hundred texts with a detailed description of military life and the course of hostilities formed the basis of the book "The Death of a Confederate", published more than a hundred years later. Archibald Jr. returned from the war, got married and raised three children. nine0005


Death of a Confederate book cover

During the Occupation of Northern Georgia, Archibald Smith moved his family, slaves, and Elizabeth's piano (which caused the move to be a two-way trip) to the south of the state, to the city of Valdosta. When African Americans gained their freedom in 1865, they did not return to Rosewell. The Smiths did not return to their house either, although by a lucky chance it remained intact: General Sherman decided that only the cotton mill should be destroyed on the territory of the city, and everything else should not be spent either time or effort. The mansion stood abandoned for almost a hundred years. nine0005

Unfortunately, the descendants of Archibald Jr. turned out to be childless, and the youngest son Arthur did not marry until he was 60, when he met an elderly teacher, Mary Norvell, who fascinated him. The fateful year for the plantation house was 1940, when the newlyweds went to the cinema and fell in love with the images and life of the main characters of Gone with the Wind. Arthur remembered the old estate bequeathed to him, which by that time had been badly destroyed. She and Mary restored the building, restored its historical appearance, however, increasing the height of the columns to the second floor, which was typical of the architecture of a later period, and moved into it to live. nine0005


Almost immediately, the family hired a cook - Mary did not know how to cook. She became the dark-skinned Mammy Cotton, whose surname translates as "cotton" and inherited from her slave ancestors who worked on the cotton plantation of Archibald Smith. Fate connected her with the house for 54 years: at first, Mammy came and cooked for the future, taught Mary Smith the basics of culinary. After Arthur's death in 1960, she moved into the Smith home to care for the widow, and was there until her death in 1981.

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Ironically, Mammy became the only possible heiress of the house after the death of the owners: in gratitude for her long service, Mary left her an inheritance of five thousand dollars and allowed her to live in the Smiths' house. She moved into the master bedroom and received guests, including tourists, who, as they say, could not listen carefully to the story of the family, because they were distracted by the unusually delicious smells coming from the kitchen. When Mammy died in 1994, about 400 people came to the Smiths' house to say goodbye to her - an unprecedented number for a small town: she became a real mistress of the house and a favorite of the locals, so they called the history of the Smith plantation "the cycle of justice in nature. " nine0005

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