West Central

This swath of Central Georgia west of Macon is a hard land that has been plagued by disappearing textile mills and record high unemployment. Yet these days folks in Thomaston and Upson County are talking about resurrected and revitalized communities…

The rumble coming from the south side of Columbus – to the tune of $2 million a day in construction work at Fort Benning – makes it seem as though the city is humming like a jet getting ready for…

A marker in downtown Americus shows the site of a Confederate hospital that burned to the ground in an 1864 fire that forced thousands of patients into the homes of townspeople, and later into the tents of a makeshift hospital.…

There’s a swarm of activity in west central Georgia. The hum of automated manufacturing lines, heavy machinery and futuristic processing systems is heating up the climate, in anticipation of some 30,000 newcomers converging on two gigantic developments: the opening of…

Just a few years ago Troup County, the westernmost county in Georgia along Interstate 85, could claim the title of former textile capital of Georgia, and not much else when it came to major-league economic development. Now, although there are…

The small-town way of life is touted and respected in Harris County, which lies just north of Columbus and adjacent to the Alabama line. Several cities, none with a population much more than 1,000, give the county a fragmented feel,…

From its vantage point on the Alabama border, Columbus sits on what some say is about to become one of the hottest spots in the state. It’s been a long time coming, but a flood of jobs, residents, and assorted…

Say the words “Georgia” and “president” in the same sentence and most people think Jimmy Carter. But in Meriwether County, those words, when spoken together, refer to New Yorker Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even now, some 60 years after his death,…