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  The historic landscape at Travellers Rest has witnessed a multiplicity of changes over the last one thousand years. 
 
   

Mississippian
Culture

Over 600 years ago, the Travellers Rest landscape was a vast Native American burial ground.  
             
   

Many Faces of
Travellers Rest

Travellers Rest has gone through many changes and transformations since the original house was built in 1799.  Follow these changes through the early 1950s.  
             
   

Slavery at
Travellers Rest

Slavery played a prominent role in the development of Travellers Rest and the Overton family.  
             
 
 
     
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