Located about 45 mi/75 km southeast of Athens, the town of Washington, Georgia, boasts more than 100 colonial, antebellum and Victorian buildings.
Notable is the restored home of Robert Toombs, a recalcitrant politician who hated the Union for political reasons and hated the Confederacy almost as much because it did not elect him its president.
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