Museum
Travellers Rest Historic House & Museum
Federal-Greek Revival plantation house where a judge ran a campaign and guarded a friend's scandal.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Travellers Rest, John Overton's home in Nashville, follows his four-decade friendship with Andrew Jackson, from a shared room in seventeen eighty-nine to the presidential campaign run from this house in eighteen twenty-four. It traces the marriage scandal that trailed Jackson and Rachel Donelson for years, and the defense Overton built when it resurfaced in eighteen twenty-eight. Listen for the story behind the house's first name, Golgotha, before it became Travellers Rest.
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