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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.
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.
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WAYX formerly aired a news-talk format with Fox Radio News, Georgia Network News and Sports, and popular conservative or political talk shows. Glenn Beck , Rush Limbaugh , Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz were featured on the station, plus business talkers Clark Howard and Dave Ramsey , and computer guru and "digital goddess" Kim Komando .
The Waycross Historic District is a 178-acre (72 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ] The district then included 237 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.
The Waycross Air Line Railroad, chartered in 1887, was an air-line railroad in Georgia. It began operations between Waycross and Sessoms in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had extended as far as Fitzgerald, Georgia , at which time its charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham, Alabama , and it was renamed the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad .