Travellers Rest

Travellers Rest is a historic plantation house in Nashville, Tennessee.Overton was a consultant and dear companion of Andrew Jackson, judge at the Superior Court of Tennessee and fellow benefactor of Memphis, Tennessee. Overton initially named the property Golgotha after the huge number of ancient skulls that were uncovered while burrowing the basement of the house. Archeologists now realize that these remaining parts were a piece of an expansive Mississippian town site. Overton changed the name of the manor to Travelers Rest in the mid nineteenth century to mirror the recreational impact his home had on him after the long rides on horseback that he needed to embrace as a circuit judge. A long ell was included not long after 1820 when Overton wedded a dowager with five children.