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Cordele, GA - History


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Welcome to the Cordele Home page. The Cordele Home page provides as much information as possible on Cordele. Knowing Cordele’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Cordele’s Home page, you will also find Cordele’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Cordele has a population of 10600. 43% of Cordele’s inhabitants are Male, and 57 are female. 26.1% of Cordele is married and 43.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $60,093, and the average rent is $670. Household median income in Cordele is $25,672, and the individual median income is $14,734. Cordele’s Ethnic is the following: Black(70.2%), White(28.9%), Hispanic(1.3%), Multiple(0.5%), Asian(0.2%), Pacific(0.2%).


Cordele was incorporated on January 1, 1888, and named for Cordelia Hawkins, eldest daughter of Colonel Samuel Hawkins, the president of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway.In November 1864, the area that is now Cordele served as the temporary capital of Georgia. During the last days of the Confederacy, Georgia's war governor Joseph E.


Brown used his rural farmhouse to escape the wrath of Sherman's March to the Sea. During that time, the farmhouse, which Brown called "Dooly County Place," served as the official capital for only a few days. It was replaced in 1890 by the Suwanee Hotel, located in what became downtown Cordele. The hotel was destroyed by a fire in late 1994 and was rebuilt. Cordele was founded in 1888 by J.E.D.


Shipp of Americus. The town was located at the junction of two major railroads – the Savannah, Americus & Montgomery line, and the Georgia Southern & Florida. As the railroads brought more people and business to the newly settled territory, Cordele experienced phenomenal growth. Before 1905 Cordele was located in southern Dooly County, 9 miles (14 km) from the county seat in Vienna.


With Cordele's continued progress, many in the community felt the need for a seat of government to be closer than Vienna. Crisp County was formed in 1905 by taking a portion of southern Dooly County, and Cordele became its county seat. By August 1930, Cordele housed the Crisp County Hydroelectric System, the first county-owned electric system.


Located on the Flint River, the hydroelectric plant continues to operate, and the resulting Lake Blackshear has attracted residents to its waterfront properties. On April 2, 1936, a tornado struck Cordele, killing 23 people.


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