In the 1868 home of Henry Clay Thruston, the tallest soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (listed at seven feet, seven and one-half inches tall), and located on the Bankhead Highway, the first automobile route in the U.S. from San Diego, California to Washington, D.C. that opened in 1916; major restoration project opened in 2003. Quilting demonstration in one room with quilters on document. Open other times by appointment.