Stone Haven is, and always has been a landmark on Lake Rabun. The land now known as Stone Haven was purchased by an Atlanta doctor, George Bellinger, in 1917 before the Tallulah River had been damned up to form Lake Rabun. Construction started immediately on the first structure, which was then called the lodge and is now known as the log house. Unfortunately, the log house is no longer part of the rental resort of Stone Haven, as it is now for sale. The sea wall in front of the log house and beside the chalet is a copy of a sea wall in Rio de Janeiro that Dr. Bellinger saw and had to build. The Georgia Power Company lowered the lake twenty-two feet so that the wall could be built. Because of the rush to raise the water back up, 168 men were hired to build the wall, and eighty years later it is still standing strong. Dr. Bellinger built the foundation of what is now the chalet as his boathouse before he sold the property that he called "Bel-Eau" to Fenn O. Stone in the early 1930's. Mr. Stone began calling the place Stone Haven and soon built the Chalet over the boathouse that Dr. bellinger had built. Mr. Stone built what is now known as the Honeymoon Cottage around 1940 for his attendant to live in, and sold Stone Haven in 1945 to two doctors, Dr. Massenburg and Dr. Clay. They then built the Hawks Nest and Wigwam, and converted the old stables into the present Ranch House. Dr. Clay bought out Dr. Massenburg in 1949 and no new structures have been built since, but several renovations have recently taken place. The Chalet was totally renovated and restored in 1999, as all three cottages were renovated just a couple of years earlier.