Take a look at this 1937 Art Deco theatre in Tifton, Ga., that contributor Brian Brown published in 2010 on VanishingSouthGeorgia.com.
Tift County, population 40,286 in 2013, is an old agricultural market center that thrived a century and more ago thanks to lumber, cotton and other agricultural products. Today, it is home to Abraham Baldwin College. It continues to be a transportation as it is bisected by Interstate 75. U.S. Highways 82 and 319 also intersect in the county.
About two thirds of Tift residents are white; about a third are black. About 10 percent of people also identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census. The county’s poverty rate is 22.9 percent (2008-2012), but just over 30 percent in the county seat, Tifton (population 16,405).
Photo by Brian Brown, VanishingSouthGeorgia.com. All rights reserved.