Waverly, GA

Waverly is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Camden County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The 2020 census counted 281 residents. Waverly forms part of the Brunswick Metropolitan Statistical Area and occupies the northeastern corner of the county. The area comprising modern-day Waverly contains archaeological remnants of extensive historic rice fields, canals, dikes, and ditches that operated from the 1760s through the late 1800s, historically associated with the antebellum Middleton-Waverly Plantation. The through line in Waverly is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Waverly makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Decades after the collapse of the plantation economy, a post office called Waverly was established in 1894 to service the developing rural community and local rail corridor. The landscape is characterized by maritime flatwoods, low-lying coastal plains, and tidal salt marshes associated with nearby Waverly Creek.