Eliza Ann Jewett

Eliza Ann Jewett (March 1779 – October 30, 1856) was an American real-estate investor.

[1] After Mary Marshall, Jewett was the most prominent female property owner and developer in antebellum Savannah.

[2] She was not an heiress and was not known to have inherited much wealth from her parents but, according to Roulhac Toledano, "She understood the value of real estate in Savannah during its golden age, between 1840 and the Civil War.

"[1] Comparisons have been drawn between Jewett and Mary Marshall, a contemporary real-estate investory, but Jewett "maintained a lower social profile and does not appear to have been very active in the city's civic and philanthropic scene.

Her funeral was held at her 326 Bull Street home in Madison Square, Savannah.