The Bank of Surrency, located at Hart and Main Streets in Surrency, Georgia, is the town’s only remaining historic commercial building. Built in 1911 as a branch of the Baxley Banking Company, it initially served as the town’s only bank until it closed in 1922. It then operated as the town’s post office from 1926 to 1960. The building was as sweet potato storage and has since fallen into disrepair.
It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2003.
According to the Rosenwald database at Fisk University, the Selma School was a two-teacher type school built for $1702.00.
This image is from the 1921 Fiftieth Annual Report of the Department of Education to the General Assembly of the State of Georgia.
This is a small town cemetery for Baxley, Georgia. Based on the ancestry records and location of the burials, this cemetery started out as segregated. The African American side had many plants that you see in the photos throughout the section. I don’t know enough about plants to know what they are or what they mean, but they do remind me of a stronger spider plant.
