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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
912 – Savannah, Reidsville, Vidalia, Waycross, Brunswick, Douglas, and coastal Georgia; 943 - Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers same area as 470, 678, and 770. Mobile numbers in metro Atlanta may now have 404, 470, 678, 770, or 943 after originally being kept in 404 by BellSouth
The Waycross Micropolitan Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Georgia, anchored by the city of Waycross. As of the 2000 census , the μSA had a population of 51,119 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 54,494).
Memorial Stadium is a 12,000-capacity county-owned stadium located in Waycross, Georgia, the largest city in and county seat of Ware County in the southern part of the state. Noted for its J-shaped main stand, Memorial Stadium was originally intended as a multi-use venue that would be home to both baseball and football in Ware County.