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Dillard is a small town in Rabun County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeast Georgia.

John Dillard settled in the area around what is now Dillard with his son James around 1823, after James took title to 1,000 acres by purchasing the lottery rights of Rabun County land holders.

John Dillard had served as a lieutenant in the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution and fought at the Battle of Guilford Court House.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the community in 1906 as the "Town of Dillard."

The 2020 census counted 337 people in Dillard; in 2000 the town had 198 residents living in 88 households and 55 families.

Dillard is known primarily for the Dillard House, a regionally well-known inn, restaurant and conference center that serves traditional Southern fare.

The Dillard House traces its origins to the 1910s, when A. J. Dillard, a descendant of John Dillard, and his wife Carrie opened their stone house to boarders.

The Dillard House says it serves about 800 customers on an average day and up to 3,000 a day during peak season, and its past patrons have included Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Walt Disney and Jimmy Carter.

Another Dillard landmark, the house now known as Rabun Manor, was built in Athens in 1850 and was dismantled in 1906, shipped by rail and hauled by ox teams for its final miles to Dillard, where it was reassembled.