Remembering Suwannee: Wellborn, Part 4

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  This week, we'll finish our multi-article study on the Wellborn community, one of the oldest existing communities in Suwannee County. During the heyday period of Wellborn during the late 1800s and early 1900s, several businesses operated in the "downtown" area of the community. Some of these include grist mills, cotton gins, general merchandise stores, board houses, saloons, physicians and drug stores, blacksmiths, coopers, shoemakers, livery stables, sawmills and millinery. Numerous farms also dotted the landscape around Wellborn, selling their wares in local markets. In the early 20th Century, the population density of the major communities had not changed,