Hampton, ca. 1900

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Men gather outside of a store in Hampton, located in Henry County, around 1900. The town was a thriving agricultural community early in the twentieth century, but the economy of Hampton and the surrounding area would suffer after the boll weevil invasion of 1920.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
hnr009-94.

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Hampton, ca. 1900

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