Napier-Reid-Rainey-Stubbs House

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The Napier-Reid-Rainey-Stubbs House in Eatonton, pictured in 1975, housed the Eagle Tavern from 1816 to 1822. The journalist and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, born in 1845, lived in a cottage behind the mansion as a child.

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