Waycross, GA news and local guide

In 1917 the city council opened municipal primary elections to white women, making Waycross the first town in Georgia to do so, because some of its largest property owners were women who wanted a say in how their taxes were spent; Atlanta followed in 1919, and Georgia women did not gain the vote in all elections until 1922. Waycross was home to the author and conservationist Laura S. Walker, who promoted forestry and forest parks and placed markers along old trails and at historic sites. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Laura S. Walker park in her honor, making her the only living person for whom such a park was named, and in 1937 the federal government bought distressed farmland for it, developed by the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Downtown Waycross and Waycross historic districts are on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Lott Cemetery, the First African Baptist Church and Parsonage and the Obediah Barber Homestead south of the city. Sources Wikipedia: Waycross, Georgia