3.3 mi. NW of Leetown on WV 48, Kearneysville, West Virginia. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 15, 1972. NRIS 72001288.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Traveller's Rest, also known as the General Horatio Gates Home, is an historic plantation house located on Bowers Road near Kearneysville, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Built in 1773 and enlarged a few years later, it was the home of Continental Army General Horatio Gates from 1773 until 1790. The house is very little altered from that period, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. The house is located on private property, and is not normally open to the public.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86534601