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Off Swamp Rd. approximately 7 mi. S of Waycross 31°05′25″N 82°20′45″W / 31.09036°N 82.34581°W / 31.09036; -82.34581 ( Obediah Barber Homestead Waycross
Waycross is the county seat of and only incorporated city in Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census.. Waycross gets its name from the city's location at key railroad junctions; lines from six directions meet at the city.
The Ritch–Carter–Martin House in Odum, Georgia, is a two-story wood-framed house that was built in c. 1915 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The listing included three contributing buildings. It was the last surviving two-story Classical Revival house in Odum. [1] [2]
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Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15, 1824, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally part of Appling County.. The county is named for Nicholas Ware, the mayor of Augusta, Georgia from (1819–1821) and United States Senator who represented Georgia from 1821 until his death in 1824.
Odum is located at (31.666072, -82.028622 [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km 2 ), all land.
The Downtown Waycross Historic District in Waycross, Georgia is a 50-acre (20 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [ 1 ] It includes the Post Office , the Phoenix Hotel among totals of 47 contributing buildings , two other contributing structures, two contributing sites, and three ...
As originally laid out, the new county – the 28th Georgia county – was a long narrow strip of land approximately 100 miles (160 km) in length but with varying measures of width along the way. It was six miles (9.7 km) as it stood just south of the Altamaha River , eight miles (13 km) wide near the Satilla and five miles (8.0 km) wide at a ...