Crossroads of the New South
The History of Telfair County, Volume II
The second volume in the history of Telfair County follows the community from Reconstruction through 1946. Transportation, industry, education, and public life provide windows into a period when local institutions and everyday routines were being reshaped. The book keeps Telfair County in view while connecting its experience to the wider changes that defined the New South. Across those decades, it considers both change and continuity, bringing a rural county’s history into a broader Georgia and Southern frame without losing its local character.
Readers who know Telfair County will find a way to place familiar communities within a period of major change. Readers interested in the New South can see sweeping developments at the scale of a single county. This is a regional history you can enter without specialized background and use to think more deeply about the places around you.
- Reconstruction through the mid-twentieth century
- Economic, civic, and cultural change in Telfair County
- Transportation, industry, schools, and public life
- Local experience set within the history of the New South
- Family and community life amid national change
- Local records and memories that trace a changing county