This structure is located across the highway from the house in the previous post. I would have included it with that post, but I’m not sure if it’s part of the same farm. I’ve preliminarily identified it as a commissary, since it has windows, but I can’t confirm. It’s a great little building, whatever its past purpose.
Tag Archives: South Georgia Commissaries
Commissary, 1910s, Lee Pope
Around 1910, the Pearson family purchased the tremendous Lee Pope Fruit Farm and its peach packing operation here. It included numerous tenant houses, this commissary, a “hotel” which housed seasonal workers (really a dormitory), a packing house (now gone), and numerous barns and sheds. At one time, the Pearson peaches were branded “Big 6”. The family’s long-term preservation of this property provides an important historic lesson of the importance of the peach industry in this section of Middle Georgia and she be commended.
Filed under --CRAWFORD COUNTY GA--, Lee Pope GA
Commissary, Crisp County
Located in northwestern Crisp County near Lake Blackshear (Flint River, originally), this could have been a general store or warehouse, but considering the extensive farming operations in the area, my best guess is that it was a commissary.
Filed under --CRISP COUNTY GA--
Wade Plantation Commissary, Screven County
My identification of this structure is an educated guess, considering it is surrounded by the historic Wade Plantation. It looks to date from circa 1910-1930. It’s possible it was a general store independent of the plantation but this seems unlikely. (There is a location known locally as Hill’s Store just down the road but I don’t think this is associated with it). False front structures are quite rare in rural Georgia and I can’t recall having seen a commissary of this style. The pressed tin is in amazingly good condition, though the structure has likely been neglected for many years.
Filed under --SCREVEN COUNTY GA--
Commissary, Wayne County
This is located near the railroad line between Odessa and Gardi and considering the prevalence of the turpentine industry in the area, it was likely related to that. Thanks to Jackielee Moseley for assistance in the identification.
Filed under --WAYNE COUNTY GA--
Peebles Commissary, 1920s, Emanuel County
Becki L. Stroud writes: This store was once owned by Malley Houston Peebles who sold it to his younger brother Cicero Talmadge Peebles. Malley Peebles moved closer to Swainsboro, Georgia, and opened the long gone Southern Pines Tourist Camp on U.S. Hwy 1. I believe the building dates back to around the 1920s. My grandparents were married there by a justice of the peace.
Like many commissaries, this may have also served the area as a general store.
Filed under --EMANUEL COUNTY GA--
Commissary, Pulaski County
I photographed this commissary on US 129 south of Hawkinsville in 2010. I believe it was razed a couple of years later.
Filed under --PULASKI COUNTY GA--