Located on the banks of Lake Hartwell and known today as Traveler's Rest the inn was known in the past as Jarrett's Inn, Jarrett's Manor and possibly Wyly's Inn. The property was first granted to Major Jesse Walton around 1785. Joseph Martin owned the property in early 1800 and sold it to James R. Wyly. Wyly built a house on the site where Traveler's Rest stands today. It is thought that he may have operated an inn there, due to the high volume of traffic getting on the Unicoi Turnpike near that location. Devereaux Jarrett, a large land owner just across the Tugalo (Tugaloo) River which today is part of Hartwell Lake, purchased the property from Wyly and moved across the river into the house (inn). From there he was on his way to being known as the richest man around. Jarrett, in addition to operating an inn, had a store, tavern, post office, blacksmith shop, tan yard, cotton gin, sawmill, toll ferry and gold mine. *Source for some of this information: The Heritage of Stephens County, 1996, Stephens County Historical Society, Inc. Today Traveler's Rest is a Georgia Historical Commission Site and is operated by The State of Georgia DNR.

©Copyright 2004-2023 Howard Farmer. All information contained on these pages is furnished by and for the free use of those researching their family origins. Any commercial use, without the consent of the host of these pages or the author of the information contained on these pages is prohibited--COPYRIGHT IS RETAINED--by the author/contributor of the material and publication to any medium, electronic or non-electronic, without consent is in violation of the law.