"The "Sewanee Hotel", run by a Mr. Tomlison, also the postmaster, was located approximately on the corner of University and Brakefield Road. The stagecoach came up the Mountain from Tullahoma on the Brakefield Road, i.e., the road through the University Farm, went over the Mountain past the cemetery, across the railroad, by "Shapherd Field" to the old Jasper Road, and on to Chattanooga. Before the Memphis and Charleston Railroad was built, it stopped for the night at this Inn. The hotel was a long low house of log cabins joined together by halls, with broad covered piazzas running all the way around. These piazzas were covered with canvas, and cots were placed in long rows to accommodate the guests for the laying of the Corner Stone on October 10, 1860."
Charlotte Gailor's account