A beautiful house and home to a very interesting man - Robert Toombs House State Historic Site (Washington) - Robert Toombs House State Historic Site - 35条旅客点评与比价

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A beautiful house and home to a very interesting man

Robert Toombs House State Historic Site的点评

2026年09月13日发布于: 海外

点评：You probably have never heard of Robert Toombs. In reading about his antebellum house in Washington, Georgia, I have learned that he was a very interesting man. From a very interesting town. A long way from everywhere, 100 miles east of Atlanta, 45 miles east of Athens, 45 miles west of Augusta, it is a must-see destination for history lovers. Founded in 1773, it is one of the oldest cities in Georgia, with over 100 historic buildings dating to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, known for its Civil War museum, it is a town straight out of a storybook, one of the prettiest small towns in Georgia, reputedly the first place in the United States named for George Washington. Finally, it is noteworthy as the place where the Confederacy voted to dissolve itself, effectively ending the Civil War in 1865. Amid all of this is the Robert Toombs House State Historic Site. Located at 216 East Robert Toombs Avenue, on the east side of town, it is a two-story wood-frame structure fronted by a two-story colonnade of fluted Doric columns. Its main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom. The interior has been decorated to reflect its mid-19th century occupation by Toombs, who acquired the house in 1837 from Dr. Joel Abbott, who built the house between 1794 and 1801. Toombs, one of the South's prominent pre-Civil War orators, a wealthy planter and slaveholder who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. A passionate secessionist who believed a civil war to be neither inevitable nor winnable by the South, he opposed secession and the decision to attack Fort Sumter but became Secretary of State of the Confederacy, resigned over differences with President Jefferson Davis, and was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. Later, he helped write Georgia's constitution during the Reconstruction Era and died at his home in Washington at age 75 in 1885. Open from 10 to 4 Thursday through Saturday, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.

翻译：你可能从未听说过罗伯特·图姆斯。在阅读有关他在佐治亚州华盛顿市的故居的资料时，我了解到他是个非常有趣的人——他来自一个同样非常有趣的城镇。这座小镇远离尘嚣：位于亚特兰大以东100英里、雅典以东45英里、奥古斯塔以西45英里处，是历史爱好者们绝对不容错过的目的地。该镇建于1773年，是佐治亚州最古老的城市之一，镇上有100多座历史建筑，其历史可追溯到美国独立战争和南北战争时期。这座小镇以其内战博物馆而闻名，宛如从童话故事中走出来的地方，也是乔治亚州最漂亮的小镇之一，据称它是美国第一个以乔治·华盛顿命名的地方。此外，1865年南方邦联正是在此投票决定解散，从而正式结束了美国内战，这一点也使其极具历史意义。而罗伯特·图姆斯故居州立历史遗址就坐落于此，地址为镇东侧的罗伯特·图姆斯东路216号。这是一座两层高的木结构建筑，正面有一排由带凹槽的多立克式圆柱构成的双层柱廊。主入口两侧设有侧窗，上方则有一个横窗。室内装饰体现了19世纪中叶图姆斯在此居住时的风格；他于1837年从乔尔·阿博特博士手中购得此屋，而阿博特博士则是在1794年至1801年间建造了这座房子。图姆斯是南北战争前南方最著名的演说家之一。他是一位富有的种植园主兼奴隶主，也是南方联盟成立过程中的重要人物。他曾在美国众议院和参议院任职。虽然他是一名狂热的分离主义者，但认为内战既非不可避免，南方也未必能取胜；因此他反对分裂以及进攻萨姆特堡的决定。不过他后来还是出任了南方联盟的国务卿，后因与总统杰弗逊·戴维斯意见不合而辞职。他后来被任命为南方邦联陆军的准将。重建时期，他协助起草了乔治亚州的宪法。1885年，他在华盛顿的家中去世，享年75岁。这座宅邸每周四至周六上午10点至下午4点对外开放，于1972年被列入美国国家历史名胜名录，并于1973年被认定为国家历史地标。

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