Uncle Remus Museum

Anne Schlea, thanks for this beautiful photo you took today at the museum. We hope you enjoyed your visit and will return to see us! While in Eatonton, be sure to check out Uncle Remus and his critters carvings on the courthouse square with a talking box of Miss Georgia sharing about Eatonton, Joel Chandler Harris and she tells one of Uncle Remus tales. There is also the Butterflies and Blossoms Garden and walking trail with picnic tables just north of town on 441/ Jefferson Ave. right before the railroad tracks.

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Someone recently asked who made the Uncle Remus and his critters carvings located at the Museum, on the courthouse square and at the butterfly garden. It was Chris Lantz of Extreme Sculpting. Read more at this link: It does work regardless of the message. https://www.putnamdevelopmentauthority.com//uncle-remus-a/

James Branham of Charleston, SC brought his mom by the museum for a visit today. We’re glad you enjoyed your visit and we hope you’ll come back again soon! James posted this comment about their visit: Mom wanted to go and check on some things in Georgia. So yesterday started our road trip. Doing some research I found out that the Uncle Remus museum was there. So that's where we went today. A wonderful lady by the name of Miss Georgia greeted us and gave us the history o...f the museum. Mom and she could have talked for hours I'm sure, as there was only a few years difference in their age. I would have happily listened to every word. I encourage everyone to take the journey to Eatonton to meet this wonderful soul and be blessed with her knowledge and love of people. And don't forget to look around the museum, too. All the wood carving were done by the same person at different times. The ones of Uncle Remus on the bench with others are by the courthouse not far from the museum. After that we journeyed to North East Georgia where mom saw a sign for waterfalls and wanted to stop. So climbing on the brakes not to miss the turn we stopped at the general store and then on to the waterfalls in Tallulah Falls, GA. Only able to see one as time was getting late and not the flattest of terrain. We both had a wonderful day! See more

What a joy and an honor to recently have Annette LaRose Harris Shakespeare visit the Uncle Remus Museum! Annette is the great-great granddaughter of Joel Chandler Harris!!! Pictured below is Annette on her visit to the museum, and two photos of Annette (blond) with her sister, Linda (brunette) with their great grandfather, Joel Chandler Harris Jr. at the dedication of the Uncle Remus critter statues at Lenox Square Mall when it opened on Nov. 17, 1959. We hope you'll com...e back to see us soon, Annette! By the way, Annette shared with us that she was named for her great-great grandmother, Esther LaRose, the wife of Joel Chandler Harris who is pictured below. Read more below: In 1870, Joel Chandler Harris joined the staff of the Savannah Morning News as associate editor. Harris contributed poems, paragraphs, editorials and news reports for publication. While in Savannah, Harris met Esther LaRose, daughter of Captain Pierre LaRose and Esther LaRose of Upton, Canada, who was spending the summer of 1872 with her parents in the Georgia city. They were married the following April when she was eighteen and Harris was twenty-one. The ceremony took place in the ballroom of the rooming house where Harris lived for two years. This house is now a BnB called the Marshall House. The Harrises had nine children, six of whom lived to adulthood. They were Julian Harris (1874-1963), Lucien Harris (1875-1960), Evan Howell Harris (1876-1878), Evelyn Harris (1878-1961), Mary Esther "Rosebud" Harris (1879-1882), Lillian Harris (1882-1956), Linton Harris (1883-1890), Mildred Harris (1885-1966), and Joel Chandler Harris, Jr. (1888-1964). In 1876, a yellow fever epidemic in coastal Georgia drove Harris, his wife, and two young sons inland to Atlanta. When offered a position as associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Harris and his family decided to settle permanently in Atlanta. Mrs. Harris signed over the deed to their home, known as The Wren’s Nest to the Uncle Remus Memorial Association near the end of her life. Esther LaRose Harris survived her husband by thirty years, dying in 1938. https://findingaids.library.emory.edu//harrisjo/printable/ Esther LaRose Harris: https://www.findagrave.com/memo/7975284/esther-harris/photo