Bibb County GAGenWeb

Cities and Communities

Bibb County is a City/County now, called Macon/Bibb as Macon has sprawled to encompass the county of Bibb.

Macon:

1867 Market in Macon, GA

More to come on Macon.

Payne:

Also known as Payne City was a mill village in Bibb County.  It was founded in the late 1800s and named for William Sims Payne who established it, owning a mill there. Bibb Manufacturing bought the cotton mill in 19-5 and built homes and an employee community center. Freedom Park, now on Roff Ave was the original site of the recreational center.   It was an independent area surrounded by Macon but was dissolved and incorporated into Macon in the 2010s.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

Avondale:

Avondale was  a community, a part of the fertile agricultural area of Georgia with dark soil called the "black belt".  Cotton plantations thrived there early on, and relied on enslaved labor.    There is an Avondale Burial Place which is a place of historic significance.  Before the white settlers came it was settled by the Native Americans.

WL Robinson Dry Good Store, Avondale, GA, early 1900s.

Franklinton:

Franklinton is a an unincorporated part of the Macon Metropolitan Statistical area, on Riggins Mill Road.

Lizella:

Lizella Farmhouse, 1880s.

This is an unincorporated community in Bibb and Crawford Counties.

It was established about 1891, when the railroad laid tracks to LaGrange through the farms west og Macon.  The community was originally called Warrior, but the first local postmaster,

James A Eubanks, drew the name of Lizella from the names of his two daughters: Lizzie and Ella.

Sofkee:

Sofkee is part of an unincorporated area.  It was established in 1912, had a post office called Sofkee which is named for the Tobesofkee Creek.  The post office remained in operation until 1930.

Walden:

Possibly named for Walden Pond, it is an unincorporated part of the county.  There was a post office there in 1878, which remained in operation until 1954.

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County Coordinator: Trish Elliott-Kashima

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