Editing Brooks, Georgia (section)

==Economy==
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By the 1900s Brooks began to grow due to the railroad. According to Daniel Langford Jr. several stores were built, including a bank, a drugstore, [[cotton gin]]s, [[grist mill]]s, and [[blacksmith]] shops. Although businesses were on the rise in the small town, the main source of economy for the town was farming.

[[Cotton]] was the number one crop for a long time until 1921 when the [[boll weevil]] appeared, quickly destroying crops, placing the town into an economic depression, and causing it to lose its charter. By the time the Great Depression struck the country, Brooks had been suffering for eight years. The town began to come out of the depression in 1939 after electricity was installed in the town. Around this time Brooks received its town charter again. Another factor in the growth of the town was due to the rise in the airline industry. Airline employees from [[Atlanta]] began to buy large tracts of farmland. Farming also changed as the focus switched from cotton to cattle.