Wrightsville, Ga., bills itself as the “friendliest town in Georgia,” but conditions don’t look too great along the railroad tracks. The above shack on East Trilby Street appeared to be abandoned, but you can imagine how the walls rattled when trains clicked by in the old days.
Wrightsville, county seat for Johnson County in east middle Georgia, is home to about 2,200 people, 35 percent of whom live in poverty. Some 46 percent of the town’s residents are white; 53 percent are black.
Johnson County, part of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, has just under 10,000 people, 21 percent of whom live in poverty.
- More about Wrightsville from Wikipedia.
- More about Johnson County.
- Census information on Johnson County.
Photo is copyrighted 2014 by Andy Brack. All rights reserved.