The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
Journalist Joel Chandler Harris made this Queen Anne cottage his home and wrote his Uncle Remus stories here. The beloved Br'er Rabbit trickster tales drew heavily on African American folklore Harris heard on a Georgia plantation in his youth.
The Wren’s Nest is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 1958. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7381, -84.4222 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Harris, Joel Chandler, House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include West Hunter St Baptist Church, Park Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and The Exterior Line.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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