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Moreland, GA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Moreland  a basic history overview.


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

Moreland has a population of 438. 53.4% of Moreland’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.6 are female. 55.2% of Moreland is married and 82% own their own home. The Average Home price is $208,203, and the average rent is $973. Household median income in Moreland is $78,438, and the individual median income is $33,000. Moreland’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.9%), Black(8.9%), Multiple(3%), Asian(0.2%).


The town of Moreland traces back to the community of the Mt. Zion Methodist Church. This church was built in 1843 for the farmers who had mostly come to this area as part of the Georgia Land Lottery of 1827. Upon the arrival of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad in 1852, the center of this community shifted southward.


It had a wood and water stop for trains and was called Puckett Station.The construction of a train station in 1888 was the event that led to the formation of the present town. The community was renamed Moreland on September 1, 1888 and incorporated on December 28, 1888. The town was laid out with the train station at its center and the boundaries extending one half mile in every direction to form a circular shape. In the early days of Moreland, cotton was the most important contributor to the local economy.


Fruit crops were also a factor including peaches, plums, pears, and grapes. An economic shift occurred during the 1920s after the devastation of the cotton crop by the boll weevil. Diseases and bad weather eventually wiped out the commercial peach orchards. W.A. Brannon opened a store in 1894 and later other business ventures.


Hard economic times forced him out of business and his buildings were sold in 1920. The Moreland Hosiery Mill was located in these buildings for several years. In 1926, new investors bought this property and opened Moreland Knitting Mills. This was the town’s major industrial employer until the business closed in 1968. Eventually these buildings were donated to the town of Moreland and are now used to house town offices, public meeting spaces, and the Hometown Heritage Museum.


Memorabilia that was once displayed in the Lewis Grizzard Museum in an old service station was moved to the historic Moreland Mill on Main St. in 2011.


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