The fort was built around 1793 by Jacob Hollingsworth on newly opened lands resulting from treaties with the Cherokee Nation, and was meant to protect the settlers in the area.

The fort was adapted as a farm residence, principally by the White family, and has passed through generations of owners.

Fort Hollingsworth was first shown on a map of the Defensive Plan for the Western Frontier,[2] for Franklin County in 1793.

Forts were built to protect the settlers who lived on the frontier from local indigenous Indians who were likely to be incited by misunderstandings.

Horses and farm animals were often stolen and families had to be protected in fortress-type buildings surrounded by wooden fences.

Col. William H. Wofford and Jacob Hollingsworth moved from North Carolina to Franklin County, Georgia in 1792.

He along with other settlers in the area petitioned Georgia Governor James Jackson to have the line re-drawn, or to take such action to protect them and their possessions from Indian raids.

[9] Some sources claim that Col. Wofford mounted his horse and rode to Washington to talk with the authorities about his land holdings in Georgia.

441) and 23 miles long (extending from Currahee Mountain to the head waters of the South Oconee River) which included the Wofford Settlement.

Genealogy records show, as the years passed, that many of their descendants packed up their belongings and moved farther west.

The LAMAR Institute performed a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of major portions of the yard at Fort Hollingsworth in 2014.