Along with the Mitchell House, Piney Woods Hotel was one of the two leading accommodations for wealthy tourists from the North in the 1880s and 1890s. Many northerners began visiting Thomasville after Reconstruction, and some of them, including the Hanna family, returned to invest in many thousands of acres of land to establish private retreats where they enjoyed breeding and riding horses and especially hunting bobwhite quail, doves, and ducks. | Creator: Joseph John Kirkbride | Date: ca. 1890 | Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDownload Original File
