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Welcome to Travellers Rest ...

Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Travellers Rest, you might consider that their post office opened in 1853.

Travellers Rest is 840 feet [256 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Travellers Rest lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Travellers Rest: 606

Communities Also Named Travellers Rest ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Travellers Rest - it's located in Prince Edward Island.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Travellers Rest.

Communities near Travellers Rest ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Travellers Rest.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Travellers Rest. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Travellers Rest.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Travellers Rest. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Travellers Rest.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Travellers Rest. See our Newspapers Page for Travellers Rest.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Travellers Rest ...

Looking for more information about Travellers Rest? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Travellers Rest, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Travellers Rest.

Adding Travellers Rest to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Travellers Rest in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Travellers Rest was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Travellers Rest post office opened in 1853. The Travellers Rest post office closed in 1964.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Travellers Rest.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Owsley, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Travellers Rest - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/