Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall is the antebellum home of Alexander H. Stephens, now preserved inside A.H. Stephens State Park. The house is a relatively modest two-storey structure, expanded several times from a simple cottage that Stephens first purchased in 1834. Tours take you through the ground-floor rooms, which include a parlour, dining room, and Stephens' personal library.

Stephens was one of the stranger political figures of the Civil War era: a small, sickly man known as "Little Aleck," who weighed perhaps 90 pounds, argued against secession until the moment Georgia voted for it, and then became the Confederacy's second-ranking official. The tension between his stated principles and his actions runs through the house's interpretive materials. A separate Confederate Museum on the park grounds expands on his career and includes period artefacts.

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Stephens named the house "Liberty Hall" in 1845, a decade before the secession crisis — the name was an expression of his personal political philosophy, not a Confederate statement. He returned to it after the war and died here in 1883, shortly after becoming Georgia's governor for a single term.