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A New Deal experiment in undoing sharecropping: in 1937 the federal government bought nearly 11,000 acres so 106 Black families could lease-purchase their own farms, a community that endured local white hostility and whose descendants still hold land here.
Flint River Farms Resettlement Project is a historical marker in Montezuma, Macon County, erected in 2005. It is one of 13 historical markers documented in Macon County, among 35 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.2917, -83.9253 near Montezuma. The nearest cataloged historic site is Travelers Rest Cemetery (cemetery), about 5.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Confederate Soldiers Monument, Montezuma Depot, and DeVaughn-Lewis House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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