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$44,635
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Vidalia, GA - History
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Welcome to the Vidalia Home page. The Vidalia Home page provides as much information as possible on Vidalia. Knowing Vidalia’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Vidalia’s Home page, you will also find Vidalia’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Vidalia has a population of 10380. 42.6% of Vidalia’s inhabitants are Male, and 57.4 are female. 42.2% of Vidalia is married and 53.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $118,772, and the average rent is $578. Household median income in Vidalia is $44,635, and the individual median income is $22,097. Vidalia’s Ethnic is the following: White(51.8%), Black(40%), Hispanic(7.3%), Multiple(3.4%), Other(3.1%), Asian(1.6%), Native(0.1%).
The town was incorporated on January 1, 1890. It is the largest city in Toombs County, but it is not the county seat. The original name for the town was Jenkins Station after a local landowner, Warren T. Jenkins. Although several origins for the town's modern name have been suggested, it was most likely given by the daughter Samuel Hawkins, the president of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railroad (later the S.A.M shortline), though which of his four daughters suggested the name, or how she came to it, is not known. Like many towns in the region, Vidalia grew up around a rail yard that served farmers in the area who grew such crops as pecans and tobacco.
The area's famous onions were not an important crop until much later. From 1952 to 1956, Vidalia was home to the Vidalia Indians, a Class D minor league baseball affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. Vidalia played in the Georgia State League and won the 1953 League Championship.In the 1950s, Piggly Wiggly grocery stores opened a distribution center in Vidalia, bringing with it a large influx of jobs as well as railroad business.
At that time, Vidalia served as an interchange junction between the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia and Florida. For this, a large seven track yard was constructed, as well as a sizable engine servicing facility and interchange yard. The latter, smaller interchange yard is still in use to some degree by the Georgia Central railroad, while the larger yard was removed sometime in the 1970s.
Dot Foods currently occupies most of the old Piggly Wiggly distribution center, with smaller companies leasing space.
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