216 E. Robert Toombs Ave., Washington, Georgia. County/parish: Wilkes.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 1972. NRIS 72000410.
1 contributing building.
The Robert Toombs House State Historic Site is a historic property located at 216 East Robert Toombs Avenue in Washington, Georgia. It was the home of Robert Toombs (1810–85), a U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Georgia who originally opposed Southern secession but later became a Confederate Cabinet official and then a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Operated as a state historic site, the 19th-century period historic house museum features exhibits about the life of Toombs. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209977