The Purcell-Killingsworth House, also known as Travelers Rest, was completed in 1890 by William Henry Purcell, a prominent Columbia businessman and politician whose interests included a steamboat landing on the Chattahoochee River. It was the boyhood home of Bishop Clare Purcell, who in 1955 was elected President of the Council of Bishops, the highest place of recognition ever achieved by a native-born Alabama Methodist minister. In 1946 the Purcell family sold the two acre homestead to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Killingsworth, who meticulously restored the imposing Victorian mansion. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 16, 1982.