December 2008 Blog Posts (2)

TRAVELLERS REST

A Thousand Years of Tennessee History

As visitors enter the gates of Travellers Rest and travel up the winding,

tree-lined drive, they are transported back to the earliest years of state and local

history. Recent extensive archaeological work on the property has centered on

evidence of a prehistoric Native American village believed to be approximately

900 years old. These early residents were called Mississippian Indians and are

also known as… Continue

SLAVERY – THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION

In a nation founded upon, and committed to, the ideals of personal liberty,

slavery was indeed the peculiar institution. The practice, which was once widespread in

both the North and the South, would become the wedge that would drive the nation

apart and into its greatest tragedy—the Civil War.

African slaves were first brought into the American colonies in the early 1600s,

and they were a vital cargo link in what is known as the… Continue