Apalachee

In 1896 the Apalachee section of the Central of Georgia Railroad was completed. Up until this point the Apalachee community was known as Florence. Due to the fact that a Florence, Georgia already existed, the community changed the name to Apalachee and was incorporated in 1907. The Apalachee community boasted a number of retail stores, two churches, a school, a depot, a cotton gin, several cotton seed houses, a flour mill, a planning mill, as well as other agricultural related industries.

At one point and time Apalachee was a thriving community. Years of hardship due to the boll weevil and the depression caused the bustling community to decline and it eventually lost its incorporation. Although no longer incorporated the Apalachee community still has a number of families that have kept and made Apalachee their home as well as a wide base of agricultural industries such as poultry farming, dairy farming, hay harvesting, and several others.

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Memories of Apalachee

"My stories of Apalachee would be of a town that was dying,not growing. Apalachee was incorporated in the 1850's and by the Depression was pretty much dead. The bank closed in the 30's, and we lost our school in 1951, and once we lost our school, that was the end of it. Last thing we lost was our post office and zip code in 1961. In the early 1900's, it was already in some amount of decline, although it was still a thriving community. Fate was sealed because the boll weevil was on the way, the dust bowl years,the Depression...all of that killed Apalachee."

Ed Prior, interviewed April 18, 2009