Court House in Barwick

Wendy Deckard‎

Brooks County Courthouse

If you drive down U.S. Highway 84 in South Central Georgia into Brooks County, you'll pass through the small town of Quitman, Georgia.

Pay attention as you pass the intersection of South Court Street. If you look North as you pass by, you'll see the historic Brooks County Courthouse. It sits just a few yards from Highway 84, so you can't miss it!

The Brooks County Courthouse was built between 1859 & 1864; it was designed by an architect by the name of John Wind.

Because of shortages of material and labor during the war, the courthouse was one of only two courthouses in Georgia built during the Civil War! (The other one is the Banks County Courthouse in Homer.)

The plans for this courthouse were initially extravagant...but because of the Civil War, plans were scaled way back; there was initially a proposed parapet, cupola, roof balustrade, ornate courtroom columns, and porticos on the ends of the building...but none of those plans ever made it off the drawing board.

The county paid for the building with $14,985 in Confederate money. Assuming the Confederate money had an exchange rate roughly equivalent to the US dollar, that $14,985 adjusted for inflation, today would be $466,006.42!

Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Brooks County

Circa 1861
Jordan Spencer

Dixon's Barbecue

1942. My great grandfather's filling station and BBQ stand in Quitman. My dad Don Dixon leaning on the pole, his brothers Dudley(Bub), and Dane.
Wanda Dixon Hughston

House in Brooks County

Ronald Broome‎

Inside an Abandoned Home in Brooks County

Mandy Green Yates

Old Home in Brooks County

Mandy Green Yates

Backroad Find

Found this beauty on one of the deepest backroads in Brooks County.
Mandy Green Yates

Grooverville Methodist Church

 Established in  1832 in Brooks County
‎Mandy Green Yates‎

Brooks County Porch

I love to imagine the company this beautiful porch in Brooks County has kept over the years. Mandy Green Yates

Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Established in 1834 in Brooks County.
Mandy Green Yates

Old Home on a Brooks County Dirt Road

Mandy Green Yates

Beautifully Aged Downtown Buildings in Pavo

Mandy Green Yates

Pretty Cool Old Barn in Brooks County

Abbi Hardee

Tobacco Barn on My Family Homestead

 (No longer in the family), constructed around 1920.
Side facing pic was still (mostly) intact 1 year ago. Afraid the storm assisted with the side falling.
Picture taken 12/29/18,
Becki Dewberry Lane

The Old Southeastern Livestock Auction Barn in Quitman

 Wayne Hannah

Brooks County Depot

The only surviving South Georgia Railway Depot built in 1897, now sits derelict in Brooks County The South Georgia Railway was incorporated in 1896. The SG ran from Sparks, GA to Perry, FL , where it interchanged with the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf Railroad, and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Later it was purchased (along with the LOP&G) by the Southern Railway, and merged with the LOP&G. The line is now operated by the Georgia, Florida Railway.
David Barrentine

Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Brooks County

Circa 1861. Wiregrass primitive do not believe in painting nor using a steeple. They use church labor and local materials so they are all a little different with the same basic design. The inside is plain. No room for musical instruments. The graveyard behind this one didn't start until 1935.
Holli Kilgore Redding

Mule Creek Bridge

If you are driving down the Old Coffee Road in rural Brooks County & turn down Hodges Road, a bumpy country dirt road, you'll eventually come to this: a 10-span old wooden bridge over Mule Creek...known locally as Mule Creek Bridge! It was last refurbished in 1989 & it's still going strong today....It really is amazing what you can find hiding just off the main roads in South Georgia! I've lived in South Georgia my entire life & only recently realized this was here... It is the longest wooden bridge still in use in this area that I've found! This is very close to what was the very first road through this area- the Old Coffee Road....and legend has it, there is Spanish Silver & Confederate Gold buried near this spot along Mule Creek that has never been found!
Jay Blanton / The Georgia Photography Fanatic

Liberty Baptist Church in Brooks County

Circa 1858. The small door to the left is direct access to the balcony used for a slave gallery until the freed slaves started a new church. It was constructed of wood from local forest. In 1952 an addition was made to include a kitchen, restrooms, social hall, and Sunday school rooms. Still used as a meeting place. Info found from National Register of Historic Places.
Holli Kilgore Redding