Historical Museums Uncle Remus Museum Located on US 441 in Turner Park, the museum is a log cabin built from two slave cabins. In a similar dwelling the little boy in Joel Chadler Harris' tales heard the stories of Uncle Remus, thought to be a fictional composite of two slaves who excelled at storytelling. The fictional house was based on Turnwold, the plantation near Eatonton where at age 13, Harris began his apprenticeship at a weekly newspaper. It was at the paper that the author heard the fanciful yarns that later formed the basis of his writing.
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