PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE CLIFTON
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Inside the Clifton in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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If you’re planning a trip to Virginia, home to the first permanent English settlement in North America and eight U.S. presidents, you’ll undoubtedly run across many properties marketing themselves as “historic inns” or otherwise claiming old-time credentials. But what does it really mean to have historic integrity? Here are five Virginia inns with luxury accommodations and fascinating past lives—as Revolutionary War taverns, nineteenth-century livery stables, and more—that won’t let a history lover down. —Kinsey Gidick, G&G contributor
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Macon, Georgia. Even though I just missed spring’s abundant cherry blossoms, there was still plenty to see and experience in the city:
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High notes: Memorabilia and artifacts pack the Otis Redding Museum—gold records, family photos, and telegrams from James Brown and Elvis Presley expressing sympathy after a plane crash took Redding’s life. Later, at Grant’s Lounge, I tuned into the Macon Music Revue, a weekly concert paying tribute to Macon’s musical roots. A new generation of local talent played Redding, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, and more; some of these iconic acts once graced the dive bar’s stage themselves.
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Super sips: On a tour and tasting at Longleaf Distilling Co., I was enchanted by Alba, a spicy-citrusy thistle liqueur with a pretty purple hue courtesy of butterfly pea flowers. And at Quill, a little bar tucked into the Woodward Hotel, I savored a literary-themed cocktail–the Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a black tea, bourbon, and blueberry concoction–with Flannery O’Connor watching from a mural on the bar patio’s wall.
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Powerful park: At Ocmulgee Mounds, I wandered trails slicing through grassy fields to reach massive earthen mounds, part of a complex that once formed the capital of the Muscogee Nation. The site is currently a National Historical Park, but if a bill just filed in Congress passes, it will be the country’s newest National Park and Georgia’s first; plus, it will be co-managed by the Muscogee Nation, a meaningful move that gives them a voice in sharing their story and honoring their ancestors.
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