Traveller's Rest, also known as the General Horatio Gates Home, is an historic plantation house located on Bowers Road near Kearneysville, Jefferson County, West Virginia.
The eastern section was built by the Hyatt family in a side hall plan, with the western added by Gates a few years later in 1773.
When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Gates helped organized the Continental Army, and went on to become of its more controversial generals, gaining the important victory at Saratoga in 1777 and a humiliating loss at Camden in 1780.
Gates added to the original four-bay structure ashlar masonry, appending a three-bay random rubble stone extension.
[5] The only major documented alteration to the house after the period of Gates ownership is the addition of dormers to the gabled roof.