HARDAWAY

NAME: Hardaway
COUNTY: Gadsden
ROADS: 4WD
GRID: 1
CLIMATE: hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time
COMMENTS: No residents since the town was abandoned in the late 1920s.
REMAINS: None
Hardaway, a Gadsden County town in the Florida peninsula near the state line and north of Quincy, based its livelihood on a huge tobacco plantation. Things were going well until a tobacco blight in the late 1920s wiped out the crops, causing the the agricultural workers living there to pull up stakes and seek work elsewhere. The town was abandoned and by the 1960s, no buildings remained and pine forests had reclaimed most of the area occupied by the town. A developer is now marketing some of the old Hardaway town site as Hardaway Hills, offering homes appealing to people wanting a rural getaway. Submitted by: Ken Dryden


Farming in Hardaway, 1913
Courtesy Jim Pike


Hardaway FL 1937
Courtesy Jim Pike

 

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