Located approximately 92 miles east of Savannah, Appling County has a lot to offer. Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy paddling on the Altamaha River or hiking the Moody Forest Nature Conservancy.
Visitors should stop at the Caroline Miller house. In 1933 Caroline Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for her book, Lamb in his Bosom. She is the first Georgia to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She also won France's Prix Femina in 1934. In 2014 citizens of Appling County formed the Friends of Caroline Miller to help preserve the home in which she lived when she wrote her award winning novel and to preserving her memory.
Appling County is also home to another literary great, Janisse Ray. A 2015 inductee in the Georgia Writer's Hall of Fame, Ray grew up in Appling County. She discussed her childhood in her award winning book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. Subsequent books, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land feature her return to Appling County and her work to restore the area.
Here are some more interesting facts about Appling County
- County Seat - Baxley
- Named for Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Appling, a soldier in the War of 1812.
- 42nd county created in Georgia
- Established by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 15, 1818.
- Communities include - Baxley, Graham, and Surrency
- Historic Sites: Appling County Courthouse, Bank of Surrency, Citizens Banking Company,C.W. Deen house, Post Office Baxley
- Appling County was once known as the turpentine capital of the world
- Part of the wiregrass region of Georgia
