Morven, Georgia

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History

Morven is the oldest community established by Europeans in Brooks County.[2]

The Coffee Road was opened through Morven circa 1823. Sion Hall, one of the first settlers, saw an opportunity to use his sawmill and to farm. The area was developed for large cotton plantations, based on enslaved African-American field workers.

Circa 1826, Hamilton Sharpe built a store made of logs; he opened a post office in 1828. The community that grew up around the store became known as Sharpe's Store. In the same year a Methodist campground was established named Mount Zion. The post office and community was renamed Morven in 1853. At the end of the century, the South Georgia Railroad was built through Morven in 1897. The community was incorporated by the state legislature in 1900.

Cotton cultivation continued to be important in the early 20th century.

Hampton Smith owned the Old Joyce Place near Morven. Often hiring laborers through convict leasing, by which Smith paid police their high fees for minor infractions, Smith was known to be abusive to his black workers. On 16 May 1918, Smith was shot and killed by Sidney Johnson, a black worker whom he had severely beaten.[3] During the ensuing manhunt in Brooks and Lowndes counties, white mobs captured at least 12 blacks and lynched them during the next few days. All but one were men; the victims included 19-year-old Mary Turner, who had denounced the lynching of her husband, and her eight-month-old fetus, cut from her body and also murdered at the site, on the west bank of the Little River.[3]

A second railroad (Valdosta/Morven & Western RR) was built through Morven in the 1920s. In 1923 the town raised an $8,000 bond to provide a water system. A group of local women organized to gain installation of electric lights in August 1924. After World War II, the first paved road was built in the community in the winter of 1948 to 1949 from Quitman, the county seat of Brooks County.

Geography

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"., of which Script error: No such module "convert"., or 0.92%, is water.[1]

Morven is located at the junction of State Highways 76 and 94 and is Script error: No such module "convert". west of Interstate 75.

Historical sites

Coffee Road

Coffee Road was opened up by the state legislature act approved December 23, 1822.[5] $1500 was appropriated for the road, which started near Cunningham Ford on the Alapaha River southwest through districts 10, 12, and 13 of Irwin County continuing through Districts 18 and 23 of Early County to intersect the Florida state line near the Ochlockonee River.

Demographics

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2020 census

Morven, Georgia – Racial and ethnic composition
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Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000[20] Pop 2010[18] Pop 2020[19] % 2000 % 2010 2020
White alone (NH) 256 189 192 40.38% 33.45% 37.94%
Black or African American alone (NH) 330 321 249 52.05% 56.81% 49.21%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 1 1 0 0.16% 0.18% 0.00%
Asian alone (NH) 0 0 2 0.00% 0.00% 0.40%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH) 0 1 0 0.00% 0.18% 0.00%
Other race alone (NH) 0 0 0 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) 0 5 16 0.00% 0.88% 3.16%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 47 48 47 7.41% 8.50% 9.29%
Total 634 565 506 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

In 2000, there were 634 people, 225 households, and 152 families residing in the city.[21] By 2020, its population declined to 506.

Transportation

Major highways

References

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