Tifton, Georgia's Largest Tobacco Market

Curt Teich & Co. Post Card, 1944.

Collection of Brian Brown

This postcard sums up the vibrant heyday of Tifton, as Georgia's flue-cured tobacco center, but brings to mind the fact that Tifton is still one of the leading centers for agriculture in the state. The rich fields surrounding this progressive South Georgia city are among the most productive in the Southeast, and the University of Georgia centers the bulk of its ag-science research at their Experiment Stations surrounding the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.