The Thomas Gilmer House in Wilkes County

It was originally built in 1800 in a part of the county that became Oglethorpe County. Gilmer was a Virginian who became a settler to the Broad River area after the revolution. His son would become twice Governor of Georgia and was one of the men too establish the settlement of Marthasville when it was still in Indian Territory. The house is significant architecturally because it had 3 large rooms instead of the usual 2 for hims in the colonial back country. The house amazingly survived all the way until 1978 when it was donated to the city of Washington and it was moved and rebuilt next to the Callaway Plantation.
Andy Sarge