Johnson County – Building a better South

March 27, 2014

Friendly, Wrightsville, Ga.

Wrightsville, Ga., bills itself as the “friendliest town in Georgia,” as highlighted by the town water tower near Brown Memorial Baptist Church on Vally Street.

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.

March 25, 2014March 24, 2014

Rusted roof, Wrightsville, Ga.

Here’s a shot of another shack along the railroad tracks in Wrightsville, Ga., which bills itself as the “friendliest town in Georgia. Earlier photo.

Johnson County, part of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, has just under 10,000 people, 21 percent of whom live in poverty.

March 23, 2014March 24, 2014

Down by the tracks, Wrightsville, Ga.

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.

Johnson County, part of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, has just under 10,000 people, 21 percent of whom live in poverty.