Editing Reidsville, Georgia (section)

==History==
Reidsville was founded in about 1828 and was designated county seat of Tattnall County in 1832 by the Georgia General Assembly. It was incorporated as a town in 1838 and as a city in 1905.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA243 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=243| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref> The city was named after [[Robert R. Reid]], territorial governor of [[Florida]].<ref>
{{Cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=8165|title=Profile for Reidsville, Georgia|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=2010-06-14}}</ref>

Reidsville is home to the [[Nelson Hotel Bed & Breakfast]].

During the events of [[World War II]], Reidsville was the home to at least one, though some reports suggest two, prisoner of war camps for captured Nazi personnel. The prison camp's location has largely been lost to time, but is believed to have stood near the current location of a gas station/self-storage company, near the fringes of the city. Archaeological research into the area has turned up a number of German artifacts, though with the development and addition of a number of houses, it is not clear if this was the location of the camp, or one of the many onion fields in which the prisoners worked.