Andersonville village, just outside the national historic site, has been preserved as a small Civil War-era town. A short main street is lined with restored buildings: a country store, a couple of antique shops, a Drummer Boy Museum, and the old railroad depot where prisoners arrived in 1864 to be marched the last half-mile to the stockade.
The village is run as a tourism operation by the small community of about 250 residents that still lives here. It is touristic in a low-key way, with no theme-park feel; most days you will have the street nearly to yourself. The Drummer Boy Museum holds an idiosyncratic but interesting personal collection of Civil War artefacts and is worth twenty minutes.