Editing Morven, Georgia

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'''Morven''' is a city in [[Brooks County, Georgia|Brooks County]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], United States. It is part of the [[Valdosta, Georgia|Valdosta]] [[Valdosta metropolitan area|metropolitan statistical area]]. The city was named after a [[Morven, Caithness|mountain]] in [[Scotland]]. The population was 565 at the 2010 census,<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1353032| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212183016/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1353032| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Morven city, Georgia| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=November 6, 2013}}</ref> and 506 in 2020. It was formerly known as '''Sharpe's Store'''.

== History ==
Morven is the oldest community established by Europeans in Brooks County.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/m.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=152 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

The [[Coffee Road]] was opened through Morven circa 1823. Sion Hall, one of the first settlers, saw an opportunity to use his sawmill and to farm. The area was developed for large cotton plantations, based on enslaved African-American field workers.

''Circa'' 1826, Hamilton Sharpe built a store made of logs; he opened a post office in 1828. The community that grew up around the store became known as Sharpe's Store. In the same year a Methodist campground was established named Mount Zion. The post office and community was renamed Morven in 1853. At the end of the century, the South Georgia Railroad was built through Morven in 1897. The community was incorporated by the state legislature in 1900.

Cotton cultivation continued to be important in the early 20th century.

Hampton Smith owned the Old Joyce Place near Morven. Often hiring laborers through convict leasing, by which Smith paid police their high fees for minor infractions, Smith was known to be abusive to his black workers. On 16 May 1918, Smith was shot and killed by Sidney Johnson, a black worker whom he had severely beaten.<ref name="meyers2006killing"/> During the ensuing manhunt in Brooks and Lowndes counties, white mobs captured at least 12 blacks and [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]] them during the next few days. All but one were men; the victims included 19-year-old [[Mary Turner (lynching victim)|Mary Turner]], who had denounced the lynching of her husband, and her eight-month-old fetus, cut from her body and also murdered at the site, on the west bank of the Little River.<ref name="meyers2006killing">{{cite journal| author=Meyers, Christopher C| title=" Killing Them by the Wholesale": A Lynching Rampage in South Georgia| journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly| year=2006| volume=90| number=2| pages=214–235| publisher=JSTOR| url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_q6VhhkczIYU2hSTHJtbHFmWGc/view?usp=sharing |access-date=14 May 2013}}</ref>

A second railroad (Valdosta/Morven & Western RR) was built through Morven in the 1920s. In 1923 the town raised an $8,000 bond to provide a water system. A group of local women organized to gain installation of electric lights in August 1924. After [[World War II]], the first paved road was built in the community in the winter of 1948 to 1949 from [[Quitman, Georgia|Quitman]], the county seat of Brooks County.

==Geography==
Morven is located at {{coord|30|56|39|N|83|30|03|W|}} (30.944263, -83.500796).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|4.5|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.04|sqkm|disp=flip|3}}, or 0.92%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010"/>

Morven is located at the junction of State Highways 76 and 94 and is {{convert|8|mi|0}} west of [[Interstate 75]].

==Historical sites==
===Coffee Road===
Coffee Road was opened up by the state legislature act approved December 23, 1822.<ref>{{cite book | title=The History of Brooks County 1858-1948" | author=Huxford, Folks | year=1978 | pages=12| isbn=0871522845 }}</ref> $1500 was appropriated for the road, which started near Cunningham Ford on the [[Alapaha River]] southwest through districts 10, 12, and 13 of [[Irwin County, Georgia|Irwin County]] continuing through Districts 18 and 23 of [[Early County, Georgia|Early County]] to intersect the Florida state line near the [[Ochlockonee River]].

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1910 = 383
| 1920 = 530
| 1930 = 491
| 1940 = 512
| 1950 = 474
| 1960 = 476
| 1970 = 449
| 1980 = 471
| 1990 = 536
| 2000 = 634
| 2010 = 565
| 2020 = 506
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decade|publisher=[[US Census Bureau]]|access-date=}}</ref><br> 1850-1870<ref name=1870CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1870 Census of Population - Georgia - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1870|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1870/population/1870a-13.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref> 1870-1880<ref name=1880CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1880 Census of Population - Georgia - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1880|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-09.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref><br> 1890-1910<ref name=1910CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1910 Census of Population - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1930|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-ga.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref> 1920-1930<ref name=1930CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1930 Census of Population - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1930|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|pages=251–256}}</ref><br> 1940<ref name=1940CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1940 Census of Population - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1940|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 1950<ref name=1950CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1950 Census of Population - Georgia |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1980|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-2/37779083v2p11ch2.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 1960<ref name=1960CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1960 Census of Population - Population of County Subdivisions - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1960|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/vol-01-12-c.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref><br> 1970<ref name=1970CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1970 Census of Population - Population of County Subdivisions - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1970|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1970a_ga-01.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 1980<ref name=1980CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1980|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_gaABC-01.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 1990<ref name=1990CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1990 Census of Population - Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics - Georgia |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 1990|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cph-5/cph-5-12.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref><br> 2000<ref name=2000CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 2000 Census of Population - General Population Characteristics - Georgia  |website=[[US Census Bureau]]|date= 2000|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-12.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2/> 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2/>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Morven, Georgia – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Morven city, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALSF12000.P004?g=160XX00US1353032|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Morven city, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1353032&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Morven city, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1353032&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|256
|189
|style='background: #ffffe6; |192
|40.38%
|33.45%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |37.94%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|330
|321
|style='background: #ffffe6; |249
|52.05%
|56.81%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |49.21%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|1
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.16%
|0.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.40%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|0
|5
|style='background: #ffffe6; |16
|0.00%
|0.88%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.16%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|47
|48
|style='background: #ffffe6; |47
|7.41%
|8.50%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9.29%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''634'''
|'''565'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''506'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

In 2000, there were 634 people, 225 households, and 152 families residing in the city.<ref name="GR2" /> By 2020, its population declined to 506.

== Transportation ==
===Major highways===
*[[Image:Georgia 76.svg|20px]] [[Georgia State Route 76|State Route 76]]
*[[Image:Georgia 133.svg|25px]] [[State Route 133 (Georgia)|State Route 133]]
*[[Coffee Road]] passes through the county.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://georgia.gov/cities-counties/morven City of Morven] at Georgia.gov

{{Brooks County, Georgia}}

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[[Category:Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Cities in Brooks County, Georgia]]
[[Category:Cities in the Valdosta metropolitan area]]