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Ludowici, Georgia
Ludowici (/ˌluːdəˈwɪsɪ/) is a city in Long County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ludowici had a population of 1,590. The city is the county seat of Long County. It is a part of the Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan area.
Within the city, the Long County Courthouse and Ludowici Well Pavilion are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The city's origins dated to the 1840s when the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad established a stop referred to as "Four and a Half". The station was constructed across from the house of a landowner named Allen Johnston, leading people to call the surrounding settlement Johnston Station by the time of Johnston's death in 1859. In 1898 there was an effort to rename the area Liberty City to help distinguish it from other places with 'Johnston' in their names. In following years both names were used interchangeably.
In 1900 the settlement's population was about 300 and featured telegraph, post, and express offices. Racial tensions were a source of conflict, with at least two white and three black citizens reported to have been killed during a riot that summer. In the fall of 1900 an African American, H. F. McKay, was elected to the Georgia State Senate to represent Ludowici as part of what was then Liberty County, Georgia.
In 1902, H.B. Skeele of the Ludowici Roofing Tile Company traveled to Savannah and announced that his company planned to open a roof tile factory in Liberty City the following spring. At the time the company operated a factory in Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Skeele said he was drawn to start their second location in Georgia due to the warmer climate, large clay deposits, and the presence of black workers who could be paid less than the white employees who the company hired further north.
When the community was raising money to cover the cost of constructing a high school in 1905, the Ludowici company made a generous donation of funds and roofing material. Later that year the city, which had previously been an unincorporated community, was incorporated as Ludowici, Georgia, in the company's honor.
The Ludowici tile factory covered more than 1,100 acres (450 ha) and employed around 100 workers. The roof tiles produced at this plant were stamped "Ludowici - Dixie" and for many years it was said that "red roofing tile covers every dwelling, barn and chicken coop in Long County."
Tiles produced at this factory were used for thousands of projects throughout the American southeast and abroad. Starting in 1906 the factory began to produce a large quantity of material to be used on American government buildings in the Panama Canal Zone. After those orders were completed in 1913 the company opted to close the Georgia factory due to lack of sufficient local orders. The company, then known as the Ludowici-Celadon Company, shifted operations to their remaining plants. It remains in operation in New Lexington, Ohio, to this day.
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Ludowici, Georgia
Ludowici (/ˌluːdəˈwɪsɪ/) is a city in Long County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ludowici had a population of 1,590. The city is the county seat of Long County. It is a part of the Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan area.
Within the city, the Long County Courthouse and Ludowici Well Pavilion are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The city's origins dated to the 1840s when the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad established a stop referred to as "Four and a Half". The station was constructed across from the house of a landowner named Allen Johnston, leading people to call the surrounding settlement Johnston Station by the time of Johnston's death in 1859. In 1898 there was an effort to rename the area Liberty City to help distinguish it from other places with 'Johnston' in their names. In following years both names were used interchangeably.
In 1900 the settlement's population was about 300 and featured telegraph, post, and express offices. Racial tensions were a source of conflict, with at least two white and three black citizens reported to have been killed during a riot that summer. In the fall of 1900 an African American, H. F. McKay, was elected to the Georgia State Senate to represent Ludowici as part of what was then Liberty County, Georgia.
In 1902, H.B. Skeele of the Ludowici Roofing Tile Company traveled to Savannah and announced that his company planned to open a roof tile factory in Liberty City the following spring. At the time the company operated a factory in Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Skeele said he was drawn to start their second location in Georgia due to the warmer climate, large clay deposits, and the presence of black workers who could be paid less than the white employees who the company hired further north.
When the community was raising money to cover the cost of constructing a high school in 1905, the Ludowici company made a generous donation of funds and roofing material. Later that year the city, which had previously been an unincorporated community, was incorporated as Ludowici, Georgia, in the company's honor.
The Ludowici tile factory covered more than 1,100 acres (450 ha) and employed around 100 workers. The roof tiles produced at this plant were stamped "Ludowici - Dixie" and for many years it was said that "red roofing tile covers every dwelling, barn and chicken coop in Long County."
Tiles produced at this factory were used for thousands of projects throughout the American southeast and abroad. Starting in 1906 the factory began to produce a large quantity of material to be used on American government buildings in the Panama Canal Zone. After those orders were completed in 1913 the company opted to close the Georgia factory due to lack of sufficient local orders. The company, then known as the Ludowici-Celadon Company, shifted operations to their remaining plants. It remains in operation in New Lexington, Ohio, to this day.
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