Bedingfield Inn

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The Bedingfield Inn, pictured before its restoration in 1965, was built in the antebellum era, when Lumpkin served as a stagecoach stop. Restoring the inn became the first small-town community preservation project in Georgia.

Courtesy of Stewart County Historical Commission

Bedingfield Inn

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