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Cordele and Crisp
County
CORDELE IS THE LOGICAL RESULT OF A
SITUATION.
In 1888 the spot where Cordele now stands was a
crossing point of two roadways hewn through a dense
pine woods. To-day it is a popular, thriving young
city of 8,000 busy people. Its religious life is reflected
in eight denominational church edifices of marked
architectural beauty. Its educational facilities are un
equalled by any city of its size in the whole south, and
its social and home life ife ideal.
Cordele is on the National Highway auto route to
Florida.
It is the entrepot of three trunk line railroads, and
one feeder, radiating in seven directions, and is pop
ularly known as "the Hub City of Wiregrass Georgia."
Fifty-six passenger trains every twenty-four hours.
Low freights, two cotton oil mills, fertilizer plant.
Two cotton compresses handle 100,000 bales annually.
Local cotton crop 22,000 bales.
Two sash, door and lumber mills.
Coal rate $1.75—steam coal delivered $2.75.
Openings: Cotton mill, peanut oil mill, woodworking plants—abundance of
hardwood and yellow pine.
CRISP COUNTY is a land of plenty and prosperity; of happy, healthful and
contented people, who are watching and assisting the county's development and
progress with an inspiring eagerness and activity.
The greater portion of Crisp county is a water shed between the Flint River
on the west and the Allapaha River on the east, with an elevation of about 400
feet above the sea. It is the highest land between Macon and Palatka, and cool
breezes from the seaboard temper the summer heat. The mean temperature in
summer is 84 and in winter 48. The rainfall is 49 inches per annum.
Crisp county lands are unusually productive and easily cultivated.
Many prosperous farmers in the county, formerly residents of northern and
western states, testify that they have here found better health, more fertile soil,
greater profits from their labors, and more general contentment and happiness than
in their old home states.
Average value of farm lands—improved, $30.00; unimproved, $20.00.
For information write to the
MAYOR or CITY CLERK
CORDELE, GEORGIA