GeorgiaWick's Tavern is a rare surviving example of an early nineteenth-century frontier tavern from the west Georgia gold-rush era, associated with the Winston and Villa Rica area of Carroll and Douglas counties. The building is tied to John B. Wick, a New York-born pioneer and miner who established a tavern within a decade of Carroll County's creation in 1826, making it among the oldest commercial structures in the region. Early gold miners who flooded into the area frequented such taverns, and the tavern's upper floor served as an inn with separate quarters for men and women. The structure was relocated in the late 1990s and today functions as a small living-history museum open by appointment, interpreting the daily life of Georgia's gold-mining frontier.
Wicks Tavern
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Wicks Tavern is a museum in Winston, Carroll County. It is one of 5 museums documented in Carroll County, among 178 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7314, -84.9206 near Winston. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bank of Villa Rica (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Villa Rica Explosion, Villa Rica's Textile Industry, and Thomas Andrew Dorsey.
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Wick's Tavern is a rare surviving example of an early nineteenth-century frontier tavern from the west Georgia gold-rush era, associated with the Winston and Villa Rica area of Carroll and Douglas counties. The building is tied to John B. Wick, a New York-born pioneer and miner who established a tavern within a decade of Carroll County's creation in 1826, making it among the oldest commercial structures in the region. Early gold miners who flooded into the area frequented such taverns, and the tavern's upper floor served as an inn with separate quarters for men and women. The structure was relocated in the late 1990s and today functions as a small living-history museum open by appointment, interpreting the daily life of Georgia's gold-mining frontier.
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