WAYCROSS  , a

city and the county-seat of Ware county, Georgia, U.S.A., about 96 m . S.W. of Savannah and about 6o m . W. of Brunswick . Pop . (188o) 628; (189o) 3364; (1900) 5919 (2899 negroes) ; (1910) 14,485 . Waycross is served by the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, and the Atlantic Coast Line railways, several branches of the latter intersecting here . In the city is the Bunn-Bell Institute (Baptist, opened in 1909) . There are large railway car construction and repair shops here, and Way-cross is a commercial centre for the forest products (naval stores and lumber) and the cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, melons and pears of the surrounding country . The municipality owns the water-works, the water-supply being obtained from artesian wells . Before the passage of the state prohibition law Waycross secured virtual prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors by requiring a large liquor license fee ($20,000 in 1883, increased to $30,000 in 1892) . Waycross was settled in 1870, was first incorporated in 1894 and became a city in 1909 . ' A fuller account of his discovery, illustrated by Hewitson, is given in The This (1861, pp .

92-106, pl. iv) .