Waverly Hall, GA

Waverly Hall is a Harris County town of 638 residents in the 2020 census, part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama metropolitan area and set along Georgia Highway 85 and Alternate U.S. 27. Its first post office opened in 1829 under postmaster William Osborne, who supplied the Waverly name from Sir Walter Scott's novels. The road follows an older route between the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers, and Mount Zion Methodist Church was built nearby around 1827 before moving into town in 1896.

Local history also runs through I. H. Pitts and Sons, established in 1869, and Foster School, opened nearby around 1840 for boarding students from Georgia and Alabama. Waverly Hall incorporated in 1914. The town sits among working farms. Today the Village Green uses the former railroad bed as a walking trail and playground, giving the old transportation corridor a present-day role. Waverly Hall is a small Harris County town with an old road, a rail trail, and a name borrowed from literature.