Chester Inn - Jonesboro, TN
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member vhasler
N 36° 17.639 W 082° 28.451
17S E 367625 N 4017564
Chester Inn (aka Jonesboro Inn) has been a hotel since 1798 with three US presidents as guests.
Waymark Code: WM79XX
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 5

From the guidebook we learn:
"CHESTER INN, or Jonesboro Inn, on the corner of Main and Cherokee Sts., has been a hotel since 1798. A first floor room was for a time the office of Brownlow's Whig. Presidents Jackson, Polk, and Johnson, and other notables, including Charles Dickens, have stopped here."

----- TENNESSEE - A Guide to the State (third printing 1949)

Now it is a part in the International Storytelling Center located in downtown Jonesborough.

From what I can tell, Charles Dickens never traveled closer to NE Tennessee than Richmond, Virginia, thus the statement in the guide book is in error.

Book: Tennessee

Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 292

Year Originally Published: 1939

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