page_title: Tifton, Georgia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tifton, Georgia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Original description: Workers in the Tifton Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping. 125 workers in all. Some of the smallest boys and girls have been there one year or more. Tifton, Ga., 01/22/1909. Photographed by Lewis Hine.
context_page_description: Tifton is a city in Tift County, Georgia, United States. The population was 16,350 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Tift County.
  The area's public schools are administered by the Tift County School District. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College has its main campus in Tifton. Southern Regional Technical College and the University of Georgia also have Tifton campuses.
  Sites in the area include the Coastal Plain Research Arboretum, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village. The Tifton Residential Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: Tifton was founded in 1872 in Berrien County at the junction of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad and the Brunswick and Western Railroad by sawmill owner Henry H. Tift.  Tifton was incorporated as a city in 1890.  In 1905, it was designated county seat of the newly formed Tift County.
  Several Chicago-Florida passenger trains made stops in Tifton: the Atlantic Coast Line's Seminole, Flamingo and City of Miami and the Southern Railway's Ponce de Leon and Royal Palm. With the discontinuance of the Royal Palm in 1970, Tifton was left without passenger service.
caption: Child workers at Tifton Cotton Mills, 1909. Photographed by Lewis Hine.
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