Victoria State Park- Royston GA

 Victoria State Park- Royston, GA

CHURCH-WADDEL-BRUMBY HOUSE

This Federal-style house, circa 1820, is believed to be Athens' oldest surviving residence. Its rescue from demolition and restoration in the early 1970s as a house museum and welcome center sparked the historic preservation movement in Athens. 

We were unfamiliar with the term "best bedroom" which they used rather than master bedroom.

Ware Lyndon House

The Ware–Lyndon House is a historic house located in Athens, Georgia. Built circa 1850, the house is two stories and exhibits an Italianate style. Edward R. Ware, its original owner, sold the property to Edward S. Lyndon in 1880. It is the only surviving structure from the Lickskillet neighborhood of Athens, one of the most fashionable districts of its time.

Edward R. Ware came to Athens in 1829 and was one of Athens' most prominent physicians practicing during the antebellum, Civil War, and post-Civil War periods. The house was the site of many parties; William Hope Hull (founder of University of Georgia's law school in 1859) described Mrs. Edward R. Ware as "full of life, loving the company of old and young, rich and poor, hospitable to lavishness, never too sick to go to a 'party,' and never too tired to give one…that youthful vivacity and unfeigned cordiality, which added to the other attraction of her elegant home

T.R.R. Cobb House

The T. R. R. Cobb House built in 1842 is an historic octagon house originally located in Athens, Georgia.

The original part of the home of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb is a Greek Revival four-over-four "Plantation Plain" built about 1834. The house was given in 1844 to Cobb and his new wife, Marion Lumpkin, as a gift from his father-in-law, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, the first Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Cobb made additions to the house of new rooms, and by 1852, it had acquired its octagon shape and two-story portico. Cobb died in 1862, and his widow remained in the house until 1873 when she sold it. The house was maintained and the Cobb family was served by the two dozen enslaved people Cobb owned, who lived behind the main house.

The Stone Mountain Memorial Association stepped forward in 1984, bought it, and relocated it to Stone Mountain Park in 1985.

The restoration of the house never took place because of lack of funding, and the house sat for nearly twenty years. In 2004 the Watson-Brown Foundation bought the house and returned it to Athens in the spring of 2005. The Watson-Brown Foundation restored the house to its appearance of 1850.

The house is now open for tours as a house museum.

We toured these antebellum homes to get a better glimpse into life during this time period. These homes had each been moved and relocated within about a mile radius of each other in town.