Belhaven Neighborhood

Many popular and successful locally owned businesses are located within Belhaven, including a number of restaurants, shops, stores, and a bed and breakfast inn.

Once per year near the beginning of Autumn, Belhaven hosts "Bright Lights, Belhaven Nights", a neighborhood-wide festival and block party featuring food from a variety of local restaurants, music from local musicians and bands, and a variety of other entertainment, as well as a number of souvenir and street vendors.

Jones S. Hamilton, a veteran of the Confederate States Army who became a millionaire from convict leasing after the war, built a "palatial home [...] on Boyd Street, east of Jefferson.

[6] In 1910, the house burned down but was reopened in 1911 as "Belhaven Collegiate and Industrial Institute" at its current location on Peachtree Street.

Fortification Street, which runs East and West through Belhaven, is paved over what was once one of the last Confederate battle lines during the Siege of Jackson.

[12] Belhaven is also home to many other locally own businesses, such as McDade's Market and Kat's Wine Cellar.

Often in the mornings and evenings many dogs can be seen walking or jogging beside their owners on the various sidewalks paved throughout the neighborhood[citation needed].