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Higdon's Store, Georgia


The woman, just outside of the original Higdon's Store, is Linne Higdon Hodges, daughter of Nimrod Higdon who was a son of Leonard Higdon and Mary Ann McClure. Click here for a larger view of the store. 		The history of a place is frequently the history of a family. A good example is Higdon's Store in Fannin County, Georgia, which provided a post office within a general store.

Reese Sebastian "Bass" Higdon, son of Leonard Higdon and Mary Ann McClure, established a post office and became the first postmaster for Higdon's Store, Georgia, on February 4, 1888. He and his wife Nora Fain moved to Oklahoma in the early 1890s.

At that time, his brother William Thomas Higdon and his wife Mary Elmira Arp operated the post office and store until October 31, 1914. William sold the store to the youngest brother Samuel Newton Higdon; he and his wife Delia Sisson kept it until the 1930s.

Higdon's Store, Georgia, was renamed to Higdon, Georgia, on July 1, 1950. By the late 1960s, that post office as well as many other rural routes were abandoned with the mail being routed through the post office at Blue Ridge, Georgia.







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