{"id":1231,"date":"2026-01-11T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:05:14","slug":"wellwood-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wellwood-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellwood Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information contributed by Mary Ann Mastin.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wellwood is near Jones or Jones Station.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in late 1700&#8217;s and early 1800&#8217;s on the stage coach line from Jackson to Brownsville and Bells, and at one time was larger than any of the three. Businesses at its peak included a hotel and theater, post office, livery stable, blacksmith, grist mills, schools, churches, ice house, four mercantile stores and a telephone exchange.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s History of Haywood County<\/em> (1887), describes it:&nbsp; Wellwood, a post village ten miles east of Brownsville, contains a store, church and mechanic shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wellwood-school-circa-1920\/\">Click here<\/a> to view a photo of Wellwood School students circa 1920.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information contributed by Mary Ann Mastin. Wellwood is near Jones or Jones Station. Founded in late 1700&#8217;s and early 1800&#8217;s on the stage coach line from Jackson to Brownsville and Bells, and at one time was larger than any of the three. Businesses at its peak included a hotel and theater, post office, livery stable, blacksmith, grist mills, schools, churches, ice house, four mercantile stores and a telephone exchange. Goodspeed&#8217;s History of Haywood County (1887), describes it:&nbsp; Wellwood, a post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wellwood-community\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}