What is the history of Dublin, Georgia?
Because of Dublin’s location as a midpoint between Savannah, GeorgiaSavannah and Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, the town in recent decades became home to a small assortment of industrial distribution centers, which complemented various industries — textiles, furniture, and paper, among others — that had already established themselves there in the second half of the 20th century. Historically, however, Dublin’s economy was based on the local cotton, corn, and soybean trades, which blossomed as the town’s central location enabled it to thrive with the growth of the railroad. Originally, Dublin and the surrounding area was home to Native Americans of the Muskogee people, also known as Creek peoples. Like their brethren throughout much of the southeast, most of the Muskogee fled westward with the arrival of European settlers, many of them organizing themselves into armed resistance units, which fought government forces and white militias to protect their native territory well into the early 18
