West Green

West Green is a tiny, charming, unincorporated rural town in Coffee County, Georgia, situated amidst vast tracts of peanut, cotton, and tobacco farms in the southern part of the state. Once called The Twenty, because it was 20 miles south of Hazlehurst, GA, and later called Garrant, West Green was incorporated up until 1995, but has since experienced a steady decline in population and legal stature and is close to being a “ghost town.” West Green is part of what historians call “Vanishing South Georgia,” a term which refers to a huge swathe of Georgia’s rural south, where sharecropping and tenant farming were once dominant land-tenure arrangements but are slowly fading as agricultural production and railroad transportation and shipping lose their economic dominance. This tiny town provides visitors a glimpse into the past, with its vernacular architecture, rustic farmhouses, dilapidated country store, and one-room post office. Georgia Highway 221 runs through the center of town, and the nearest communities are Hazlehurst, GA to the north, and Douglas, GA to the south.