Sherman’s troops, and for a few days Cordele served as the temporary capital of Confederate Georgia. Brown, the Georgia governor, fled to his farmhouse near Cordele to avoid Union general William T. In November 1864, during the Civil War (1861-65), Joseph E. The town was known in its early years as “the Hub City” because it stood at the junction of several railroad lines. Hawkins, president of the Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery Railroad. Cordele, founded in 1888 by John Edgar Dawson Shipp of Americus and incorporated that same year, was named for a daughter of Samuel H. Among these was Arabi, founded in 1888 and incorporated in 1891. Several towns were formed at the sites where one or several of the railroads made stops. The coming of railroad transportation to the area in the 1880s had a significant impact on population patterns. The English and Creeks prevailed against the invaders near the Flint River in what is now Crisp County, and the battle marked the opening of a campaign that led to England’s successful bid for control of the Mississippi Valley. In an effort to curtail English trade with Creeks in the region, Spanish Floridians allied with Apalachee Indians and attacked the English and Creeks in 1702. This Mass may have been the first Christian religious service held in the southeastern United States. Priests traveling with the explorers said Mass in a village that historians have identified as a predecessor of the modern town of Cordele. The first Europeans visited the area in 1540, when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his followers passed through. The area now forming Crisp County was once a province called Chisi, Ichisi, or Achese, which was inhabited by the Lower Creek division of the Muskogee Indians.
House of Representatives from 1891 to 1894, and Cordele was selected as the county seat. It was named for statesman Charles Crisp, speaker of the U.S. The 274-square-mile county was carved from Dooly County in 1905, after residents successfully petitioned for a division of that county.
Crisp County, in south Georgia, is Georgia’s 138th county.
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